[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 43 (Monday, March 4, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 15609]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-04453]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037497; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Fowler Museum at the University 
of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Fowler Museum at the University of 
California Los Angeles (Fowler Museum at UCLA), has completed an 
inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural 
affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native 
Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains were removed 
from Orange County, CA.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remain in this notice may occur on or 
after April 3, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Michael Chavez, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Box 951549, Los 
Angeles, CA 90095-1549, telephone (310) 825-1864, 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 the 
Fowler Museum at UCLA. The National Park Service is not responsible for 
the determinations in this notice. Additional information on the 
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, 
can be found in the inventory or related records held by the Fowler 
Museum at UCLA.

Description

    Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed 
from Orange County, CA. The ancestor was transferred from Catherine 
Asper to Renatta Russell in 1975 along with a typed letter stating that 
they were found on a golf course in Aliso Beach. Russell then mailed 
the ancestor to Dr. Berger, Director of the UCLA Radiocarbon Laboratory 
in 1976. In 1994 after UCLA closed the Laboratory many of the 
collections were transferred to UC Riverside's Radiocarbon Laboratory. 
In 2019, after the retirement of Professor Erwin Taylor, UCR 
inventoried all the materials and returned collections to UCLA 
including this ancestral remain, assigned catalog number PC#618A. In 
2021 UCLA determined that there was sufficient reason to assume control 
and in consultation with local archaeologists and tribal members that 
the individual represented by PC#618A may have been taken from ORA-9. 
No lineal descendant can be determined. No associated funerary objects 
are present.

Cultural Affiliation

    The human remains in this notice are connected to one or more 
identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures. There is a 
relationship of shared group identity between the identifiable earlier 
groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures and one or more Indian Tribes or 
Native Hawaiian organizations. The following types of information were 
used to reasonably trace the relationship: geographical information and 
expert opinion.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the Fowler Museum at UCLA has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the human remains described in this notice 
and the Pechanga Band of Indians (previously listed as Pechanga Band of 
Luiseno Mission Indians of the Pechanga Reservation, California).

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains 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 identified in this notice 
and, if joined to a request from one or more of the Indian Tribes, the 
Juaneno Band of Mission Indians Acjachemen Nation--Belardes; Juaneno 
Band of Mission Indians Acjachemen Nation 84A; and the Gabrielino/
Tongva Nation.
    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 in this notice to a requestor may 
occur on or after April 3, 2024. If competing requests for repatriation 
are received, the Fowler Museum at UCLA must determine the most 
appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint 
repatriation of the human remains are considered a single request and 
not competing requests. The Fowler Museum at UCLA is responsible for 
sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations identified in this notice.
    This notice was submitted before the effective date of the revised 
regulations (88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, effective January 12, 
2024). As the notice conforms to the mandatory format of the Federal 
Register and includes the required information, the National Park 
Service is publishing this notice as submitted.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.

    Dated: February 23, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-04453 Filed 3-1-24; 8:45 am]
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