[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 85 (Wednesday, May 1, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35195-35196]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-09409]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037834; 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 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 31, 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, one individual have been reasonably identified. The two 
associated funerary objects are charcoal samples. From December 1984 
through January 1985 the University of California, Riverside 
Archaeological Research Unit (UCR-ARU) investigated archaeological site 
CA-RIV-1806 (Hi Card Ranch) as part of an environmental impact 
assessment related to a housing development near Wildomar. Daniel 
McCarthy, staff archaeologist for the UCR-ARU published a report on the 
excavation in 1986 entitled ``Excavations at Hi Card Ranch (CA-RIV-
1806), Santa Rosa Plateau, Near Wildomar, Riverside County, 
California''. A total of 26 units, including four test units were 
excavated. Items removed from the site included cremated human remains 
and charcoal, as well as faunal bone, a bead made from faunal bone, 
seeds, stone tools and flakes, ground stones, modified disc-shaped and 
donut-shaped stones, and projectile points. The human bone removed from 
the site was not identified as human until a morphological laboratory 
analysis following excavation. Five small human bone fragments were all 
uncovered in unit 6, which was located on the northwestern edge of the 
excavation in what archaeologists believed was a single cremation. The 
associated archaeological collection was temporarily housed in the 
University of California Riverside Archaeological Curation Unit under 
Accession #101. The cremated human bone fragments and charcoal listed 
in this inventory were sent to the UCR Radiocarbon Laboratory under the 
direction of Dr. Taylor to be dated and remained in the UCR collection 
after testing. The remainder of the collection was returned to the 
landowner, Mr. Keith Card, in October of 1989. UCR NAGPRA Program Staff 
contacted the family and colleagues of the late Keith Card, but were 
unable to locate the other artifacts removed from the site.

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 one individual of Native American ancestry.
     The two 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

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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 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 31, 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: April 23, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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