Notice2024-04087
Notice of Inventory Completion: California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA and California State University Chico, Chico, CA
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Published
February 28, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), California State University Chico (CSU Chico) 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. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Butte County, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 40 (Wednesday, February 28, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14713-14714]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-04087]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037472; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: California Department of Water
Resources, Sacramento, CA and California State University Chico, Chico,
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), California State University Chico (CSU
Chico) 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. The
human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Butte
County, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after March 29, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Dawn Rewolinski, California State University, Chico, 400 W
1st Street, Chico, CA 95929, telephone (530) 898-3090, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f1958394869e9d989f829a98b1928284929998929edf949584"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="dcb8aeb9abb3b0b5b2afb7b59cbfafa9bfb4b5bfb3f2b9b8a9">[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
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sole responsibility of CSU Chico. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in this notice. 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 inventory or related
records held by CSU Chico.
Description
CA-BUT-521
Human remains representing, at minimum, four individuals were
removed from Butte County, CA. Site CA-BUT-521 is located near the
Coyote Campground and Loafer Creek within the Lake Oroville State
Recreation Area, which is on land owned by California Department of
Water Resources (CDWR) and managed by the California Department of
Parks and Recreation (CDPR). In April and May 1975. CSU Chico
archeologist Richard E. Markley and his students conducted test
excavations at CA-BUT-521 prior to construction for an employee housing
project. In December 2023, CDWR transferred legal control of CA-BUT-521
to CSU Chico. The 1,143 associated funerary objects are 19 lots
consisting of beads, 14 lots consisting of organics, two lots
consisting of clay samples, 258 lots consisting of debitage, 74 lots
consisting of unmodified faunal elements, 102 lots consisting of
modified faunal elements, five lots consisting of flakes, 239 modified
stones, five lots consisting of unmodified stone, one piece of
petrified wood, 95 lots consisting of unmodified shells, 76 lots
consisting of soil samples, seven lots consisting of charcoal samples,
four oversized stone tools, and 242 lots consisting of projectile
points.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains and associated funerary objects 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: anthropological information, archeological information,
oral tradition, and expert opinion in the form of Tribal traditional
knowledge.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, CSU Chico has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of four individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 1,143 objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed with or near individual human remains at
the time of death or later as part of the death rite or ceremony.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary
objects described in this notice and the Berry Creek Rancheria of Maidu
Indians of California.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
Responsible Official identified in 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 March 29, 2024. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, CSU Chico 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. CSU Chico is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to
the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this
notice.
This notice was submitted before the effective date of the revised
regulations (88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, effective January 12,
2024). As the notice conforms to the mandatory format of the Federal
Register and includes the required information, the National Park
Service is publishing this notice as submitted.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: February 20, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-04087 Filed 2-27-24; 8:45 am]
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