[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 68 (Monday, April 8, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24498-24499]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-07358]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037672; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California, 
Riverside, Riverside, 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 University of California, Riverside 
(UCR) has completed an inventory of human remains and associated 
funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural 
affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects 
and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after May 8, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Megan Murphy, University of California, Riverside, 900 
University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92517-5900, telephone (951) 827-6349, 
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 
University of California, Riverside, and additional information on the 
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, 
can be found in the inventory or related records. The National Park 
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.

Abstract of Information Available

    Based on the information available, human remains representing, at 
least, four individuals have been reasonably identified. The 47 lots of 
associated funerary objects are eight lots of animal bone, four lots of 
ceramics, six lots of

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glass objects, seven lots of lithic objects and debitage, four lots of 
shell beads, two lots of botanical materials, six lots of mineralogical 
objects, four lots of unmodified shell, four lots of metal, one lot of 
leather, and one lot of geological materials. Between 1989 and 1993, 
archaeologists associated with the University of California, 
Riverside's Archaeological Research Unit (UCR-ARU) excavated different 
areas of archaeological site CA-RIV-102 also known as the Lochmiller 
Site including CA-RIV-3757, CA-RIV-3758, CA-RIV-3759, CA-RIV-3760, CA-
RIV-3761, CA-RIV-3788, and CA-RIV-3789. The Lochmiller Site is known to 
Cahuilla and Luiseno communities as the historic village of Pahsitnah 
and is situated in the Santa Rosa Hills in the town of Hemet. The site 
was first excavated by UCR-ARU in 1977, but continued excavations 
produced a total of eight separate archaeological collections at the 
University of California, Riverside. Human remains have been identified 
in five of the eight collections currently housed at UCR from Pahsitnah 
and are likely to be present in the other three collections. No known 
individuals have been identified.

Cultural Affiliation

    Based on the information available and the results of consultation, 
cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available 
about the human remains and associated funerary objects described in 
this notice.

Determinations

    The University of California, Riverside has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of four individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The 47 lots of objects described in this notice are 
reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally with or near 
individual human remains at the time of death or later as part of the 
death rite or ceremony.
     There is a reasonable connection between the human remains 
and associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Agua 
Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of the Agua Caliente Indian 
Reservation, California; Cahuilla Band of Indians; Los Coyotes Band of 
Cahuilla and Cupeno Indians, California; Pechanga Band of Indians 
(previously listed as Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the 
Pechanga Reservation, California); Ramona Band of Cahuilla, California; 
Santa Rosa Band of Cahuilla Indians, California; and the Soboba Band of 
Luiseno Indians, California.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the 
authorized representative identified in this notice under 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 May 8, 2024. If 
competing requests for repatriation are received, the University of 
California, Riverside 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. The University of California, Riverside is 
responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and 
Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.

    Dated: March 22, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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