[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 156 (Tuesday, August 13, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65928-65929]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-17975]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038473; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


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

DATES: Repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice 
may occur on or after September 12, 2024.

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ADDRESSES: Alexandra Lucas, Government and Community Relations, Office 
of the Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley, 200 California 
Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, telephone (510) 570-0964, 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, Berkeley, and additional information on the 
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, 
can be found in its inventory or related records. The National Park 
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.

Abstract of Information Available

    In October 1948, Albert Mohr and David Allen Fredrickson removed 17 
lots of associated funerary objects from CA-GLE-1, CA-GLE-2, CA-GLE-5, 
CA-GLE-6, CA-GLE-7, CA-GLE-9, CA-GLE-10, and CA-GLE-11 in Glenn County, 
CA. The University of California Museum of Anthropology (today the 
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology) appropriated the 17 lots of 
associated funerary objects from the University of California 
Archaeological Survey in October 1948. The associated funerary objects 
are worked stone and stone fragments.
    Collections and collection spaces at the Phoebe A Hearst Museum of 
Anthropology were treated with substances for preservation and pest 
control, some potentially hazardous. No records have been found to date 
at the Museum to indicate whether or not chemicals or natural 
substances were used prior to 1960.

Cultural Affiliation

    Based on the information available and the results of consultation, 
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical 
location or acquisition history of the associated funerary objects 
described in this notice.

Determinations

    The University of California, Berkeley has determined that:
     The 17 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 connection between the human remains and 
associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Grindstone 
Indian Rancheria of Wintun-Wailaki Indians of California and the 
Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians of California.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the 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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with 
cultural affiliation.
    Repatriation of the associated funerary objects described in this 
notice to a requestor may occur on or after September 12, 2024. If 
competing requests for repatriation are received, the University of 
California, Berkeley must determine the most appropriate requestor 
prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the 
associated funerary objects are considered a single request and not 
competing requests. The University of California, Berkeley 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: August 1, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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