[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 114 (Monday, June 16, 2025)] [Notices] [Pages 25368-25369] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-11015] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040368; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000] Notice of Intended Repatriation: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Oregon/Washington State Office, Lakeview District Office, Lakeview, OR AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Oregon/Washington State Office, Lakeview District Office [[Page 25369]] (BLM Lakeview District Office) intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and/or objects of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on or after July 16, 2025. ADDRESSES: Send additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items in this notice to James Todd Forbes, Lakeview District Manager, U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), 1301 S G Street, Lakeview, OR 97630, 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 BLM Lakeview District Office, and additional information on the determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in the summary or related records. The National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice. Abstract of Information Available Five stemmed point fragments and a total of 116 lots of cultural items have been requested for repatriation. The five stemmed point fragments are unassociated funerary objects, and the 116 boxes include sacred objects/objects of cultural patrimony consisting of shell fragments, soil, faunal remains and stone tools and tool fragments made from obsidian, basalt and cryptocrystalline silicate (CCS). The cultural items were removed from archaeological sites on BLM lands in Lake County, OR and Harney County, OR and were collected during University of Nevada Reno (UNR) field schools and other research oriented archaeological investigations. The cultural items are housed at UNR. Determinations The BLM Lakeview District Office has determined that:The five unassociated funerary objects described in this notice are reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally with or near human remains, and are connected, either at the time of death or later as part of the death rite or ceremony of a Native American culture according to the Native American traditional knowledge of a lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization. The unassociated funerary objects have been identified by a preponderance of the evidence as related to human remains, specific individuals, or families, or removed from a specific burial site or burial area of an individual or individuals with cultural affiliation to an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization. The 116 lots of sacred objects/objects of cultural patrimony described in this notice are, according to the Native American traditional knowledge of an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization, specific ceremonial objects needed by a traditional Native American religious leader for present-day adherents to practice traditional Native American religion, and have ongoing historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native American group, including any constituent sub-group (such as a band, clan, lineage, ceremonial society, or other subdivision). There is a reasonable connection between the cultural items described in this notice and the Burns Paiute Tribe; Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon; Fort Bidwell Indian Community of the Fort Bidwell Reservation of California; and the Klamath Tribes. Requests for Repatriation Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items in this notice must be sent to the authorized representative identified in this notice under ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by 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 cultural items in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after July 16, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the BLM Lakeview District Office must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the cultural items are considered a single request and not competing requests. The BLM Lakeview District Office is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice and to any other consulting parties. Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 U.S.C. 3004 and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9. Dated: June 6, 2025. Melanie O'Brien, Manager, National NAGPRA Program. [FR Doc. 2025-11015 Filed 6-13-25; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4312-52-P