[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 133 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56900-56901]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-15197]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038219; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Town of Germantown, Germantown, 
NY

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 Town of Germantown 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.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or 
after August 12, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Thomas Shannon, Town Historian, Germantown Town Hall, 50 
Palatine Park Road, Germantown, NY 12526, telephone (518) 822-7908, 
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 
Town of Germantown, and additional information on the determinations in

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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. No associated 
funerary objects are present. The individual's remains were disturbed 
in 1990 during the excavation and expansion of 45 Moore Road, Town of 
Germantown, Columbia County, New York, which overlooks the Hudson 
River. The Columbia County Sheriff's Department opened an investigation 
(Case 6641-90). On August 8, 1990, a Columbia County Sheriff's 
Department investigator brought the remains to the Onondaga County 
Medical Examiner's Office for analysis. After William C. Rodriguez, 
III, Ph.D., completed his analysis, the remains were stored at the 
Onondaga County Medical Examiner's Office until May 1, 1991, when they 
were returned to the Columbia County Sheriff's Office. Sometime after 
that, they were brought to the Town of Germantown Records Retention 
Room, where they have been since. The Town Historian discovered the 
individual's remains in the records retention room on January 13, 2024. 
According to the report, the remains contain portions of the cranium, 
distal portions of the left and right humeri, proximal end of the right 
ulnae, right tibial mid-shaft, superior portions of the left and right 
scapula, superior half of the left innominate, both femurs, rib 
fragments, right temporal and parietal bone portions, assorted 
phalanges of the feet, right half of the mandible, including 1st and 
2nd molars, maxilla.

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 described in this notice.

Determinations

    The Town of Germantown has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
     There is a reasonable connection between the human remains 
described in this notice and the Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware 
Tribe of Indians; and the Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains 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 in this notice to a requestor may 
occur on or after August 12, 2024. If competing requests for 
repatriation are received, the Town of Germantown 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 Town of Germantown 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: June 26, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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