Notice2023-10560
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Yuba County Water Agency, Marysville, CA
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Published
May 18, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Yuba County Water Agency (YCWA) intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of objects of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural items were removed from Yuba County, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 96 (Thursday, May 18, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31818-31819]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-10560]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035865; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Yuba County Water
Agency, Marysville, 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), Yuba County Water Agency (YCWA) intends to
repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of objects
of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The
cultural items were removed from Yuba County, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after June 20, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Jacob Vander Meulen, YCWA, 1220 F Street, Marysville, CA
95901, telephone (530) 443-7412, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#69031f08070d0c1b040c1c050c0729101c0b081e081d0c1b47061b0e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a5cfd3c4cbc1c0d7c8c0d0c9c0cbe5dcd0c7c4d2c4d1c0d78bcad7c2">[email protected]</span></a>.
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 YCWA.
The National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in
this notice. Additional information on the determinations in this
notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in the
summary or related records held by YCWA.
Description
Four lots of objects of cultural patrimony were removed from Yuba
County, CA. They are described below.
In 1966, one lot of cultural items was removed from an area near
the southwestern end of Garden Valley during excavations carried out
under the direction of archeologist Stephen E. Humphreys prior to
inundation of the area by the Yuba County Water Agency's New Bullards
Bar Project. The location was given archeological site numbers CA-YUB-
018, P-58-0036, YUB-S21, and BB#4. They are currently located at the
California State University Sacramento (CSU Sacramento) curation
facility. This lot contains projectile points and projectile point
fragments, knives, scrapers, cores, choppers, ground or pecked stones
including pestles, hammerstone, mano fragments, abrading stones,
steatite objects, ochre, and other uncategorized objects.
In 1966, one lot of cultural items was removed from an area near
Garden Valley during excavations carried out under the direction of
archeologist Stephen E. Humphreys prior to inundation of the area by
the Yuba County Water Agency's New Bullards Bar Project. The location
was given archeological site numbers CA-YUB-019, P-58-0037, YUB-S22,
and BB#5. They are currently located at the CSU Sacramento curation
facility. This lot contains projectile points and projectile point
fragments, drills, knives and knife fragments, scrapers and halfted
scrapers/knives, gravers, cores, choppers, ground or pecked stones
including pestles, mano fragments, metates, and other uncategorized
objects.
In 1966, one lot of cultural items was removed from an area
overlooking a tributary of Willow Creek during excavations carried out
under the direction of archeologist Stephen E. Humphreys prior to
inundation of the area by the Yuba County Water Agency's New Bullards
Bar Project. The location was given archeological site numbers CA-YUB-
021, P-58-0039, YUB-S24, AR6(?), and BB#7. They are currently located
at the CSU Sacramento curation facility. This lot contains groundstone
flakes and other uncategorized objects.
In 1966, one lot of cultural items was removed from the southeast
side of Garden Valley during excavations carried out under the
direction of archeologist Stephen E. Humphreys prior to inundation of
the area by the Yuba County Water Agency's New Bullards Bar Project.
The location was given archeologically designated site numbers: CA-YUB-
0024, YUB-S19, SSC1, BB#2, and P-58-0042. They are currently located at
the CSU Sacramento curation facility. This lot contains projectile
points and projectile point fragments, obsidian gravers, drills, spear
points, halfted knives, scrapers, cores, choppers, ground/battered
stone tools, rubbing stones, mortar fragments, a net sinker, an anvil
stone, pestles, hammerstones, a shaped stone, a pendant, modified and
unmodified steatite fragments (including bowl, cup, and dish
fragments), red ochre, modified bones, a glass bead, a shaft polisher,
shell fragments, and quartz crystals.
Cultural Affiliation
The cultural items in this notice are connected to one or more
identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures. There is a
relationship of shared group identity between the identifiable earlier
groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures and one or more Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations. The following types of information were
used to reasonably trace the relationship: based on geographical,
kinship, biological, archeological, anthropological, linguistic,
folkloric, oral traditional, historical, and expert opinion, including
tribal traditional knowledge.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, YCWA has determined that:
<bullet> The four lots of cultural items described above have
ongoing historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the
Native American group or culture itself, rather than property owned by
an individual.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and the United Auburn
Indian Community of the Auburn Rancheria of California.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items
in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in
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 June 20, 2023. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, YCWA 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. YCWA is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the
Indian Tribe identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, 10.10,
and 10.14.
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Dated: May 10, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-10560 Filed 5-17-23; 8:45 am]
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