[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 203 (Monday, October 23, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72790-72791]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-23282]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036758; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: California State 
University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; amendment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), California State University, Sacramento has 
amended a Notice of Inventory Completion published in the Federal 
Register on March 2, 2023. This notice amends the number of associated 
funerary objects in a collection removed from Sacramento County, CA.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after November 22, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Dr. Dianne Hyson, Dean of the College of Social Sciences and 
Interdisciplinary Studies, California State University, Sacramento, 
6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819, telephone (916) 278-6504, email 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the 
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA. 
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of 
California State University, Sacramento. The National Park Service is 
not responsible for the determinations in this notice. Additional 
information on the amendments and determinations in this notice, 
including the results of consultation, can be found in the inventory or 
related records held by California State University, Sacramento.

Amendment

    This notice amends the determinations published in a Notice of

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Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (88 FR 13147-13148, March 
2, 2023). Repatriation of the items in the original Notice of Inventory 
Completion has not occurred. Three additional associated funerary 
objects from one of the sites listed in that notice, CA-SAC-127, were 
identified in another collection that was donated to the University by 
the estate of Charles McKee.
    From CA-SAC-127 in Sacramento County, CA, the 24,853 associated 
funerary objects (previously identified as 24,850 associated funerary 
objects) include baked clay; faunal and floral remains; flaked and 
ground stones; historic materials; modified shells, bones, stone, and 
wood; non-cultural items; soil samples; ash; charcoal; pigment; 
unidentified materials; unmodified stones; and thermally altered rocks. 
Of this number, 136 objects are currently missing from the collection. 
California State University, Sacramento continues to look for these 136 
missing objects.

Determinations (as Amended)

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, California State University, Sacramento has determined 
that:
     The human remains represent the physical remains of 379 
individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The 25,176 objects described in this amended notice are 
reasonably believed to have been placed with or near individual human 
remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite or 
ceremony.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary 
objects and the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; 
Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Ione Band of 
Miwok Indians of California; Jackson Band of Miwuk Indians; Shingle 
Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona 
Tract), California; United Auburn Indian Community of the Auburn 
Rancheria of California; and the Wilton Rancheria, California.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the 
Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation 
may be submitted by:
    1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations identified in this notice.
    2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian 
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a 
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal 
descendant or a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 
organization.
    Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects 
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after November 22, 2023. 
If competing requests for repatriation are received, California State 
University, Sacramento must determine the most appropriate requestor 
prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the human 
remains and associated funerary objects are considered a single request 
and not competing requests. California State University, Sacramento is 
responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes 
identified in this notice.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10, 
10.13, and 10.14.

    Dated: October 11, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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