Notice2024-04993
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, and East Bay Municipal Utility District, Oakland, CA
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Published
March 8, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), California State University, Sacramento and East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) intend 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.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 47 (Friday, March 8, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16797-16798]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-04993]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037570; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: California State
University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, and East Bay Municipal Utility
District, Oakland, 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, Sacramento and
East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) intend 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.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after April 8, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Mark Wheeler, Chief of Staff to President Luke Wood,
California State University, Sacramento, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA
95819, telephone (916) 460-0490, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#204d41524b0e574845454c455260435355530e454455"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f895998a93d68f909d9d949d8ab89b8b8d8bd69d9c8d">[email protected]</span></a>, and Chuck
Beckman, Manager of Watershed and Recreation, East Bay Municipal
Utility District, 15083 Camanche Parkway South, Valley Springs, CA
95252, telephone (209) 772-8203, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#60515855550801120c05134e0205030b0d010e2005020d15044e030f0d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="24151c11114c45564841570a4641474f49454a6441464951400a474b49">[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
California State University, Sacramento and EBMUD, and additional
information on the
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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
The 18,984 cultural items were removed from several sites in Amador
County, CA. In the 1950s and 1960s, California State University,
Sacramento conducted various surveys and excavations prior to the
inundation of Camanche Reservoir, variously under the direction of
William Beeson, Jerald Johnson, Louis Payen, William Hansen, and David
Boloyan. These sites include AMA-04, AMA-05, AMA-08, AMA-45, AMA-50,
and AMA-76. All collections were curated at California State
University, Sacramento. The 18,984 objects of cultural patrimony
include faunal and flora remains; flaked and ground stone objects;
unmodified stones; historic objects; modified shell, stone and wood;
baked clay; ash; ochre; soil and geologic samples; thermally altered
rocks; other organic material; and unidentified material. Of this
number, 978 objects are currently missing from the collections.
California State University, Sacramento continues to look for these 978
missing objects.
Determinations
California State University, Sacramento and EBMUD have determined
that:
<bullet> The 18,984 cultural items described above have ongoing
historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native
American group or culture itself, including any constituent sub-group
(such as a band, clan, lineage, ceremonial society, or other
subdivision), according to the Native American traditional knowledge of
an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization.
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the cultural
items described in this notice and the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk
Indians of California and the Ione Band of Miwok Indians of California.
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 April 8, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the California State University, Sacramento
and EBMUD 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 California
State University, Sacramento and EBUMD is responsible for sending a
copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3004 and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.
Dated: February 29, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-04993 Filed 3-7-24; 8:45 am]
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