Notice2024-13242
Notice of Inventory Completion: California Department of Transportation, Sacramento, CA
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Published
June 17, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), 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 Lake County, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 117 (Monday, June 17, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51363-51364]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-13242]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038093; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: California Department of
Transportation, Sacramento, 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 California Department of Transportation
(Caltrans), 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 Lake
County, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after July 17, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Marisol Espino, California Department of Transportation, 703
B Street, Marysville, CA 95901, telephone (530) 812-4546, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a6ebc7d4cfd5c9ca88e3d5d6cfc8c9e6c2c9d288c5c788c1c9d0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f1bc908398829e9ddfb48281989f9eb1959e85df9290df969e87">[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
Caltrans, and additional information on the determinations in this
notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in the
inventory or related records. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Based on the information available, human remains representing at
least one individual have been reasonably identified. The 528 catalog
entries of associated funerary objects (221 from Acc. 75-12 and 307
from Acc. 362) are modified stone, unmodified stone, debitage,
unmodified faunal elements, modified faunal elements, historic
material, modified shell, organics, and charcoal samples. Eighteen
objects represented by 12 catalog entries are missing from the
collections, and Caltrans and CSU Chico continue to look for them.
These objects were not identified during the catalog verification
process.
The individual and associated funerary objects are from
archaeological
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site CA-LAK-435, which is located in Lake County, California. They were
recovered as a part of excavations undertaken by Caltrans in 1975 for
widening of State Route 20 and again in 2004 for roadway rehabilitation
activities. These human remains and associated funerary objects are
controlled by Caltrans and in the possession of California State
University, Chico (CSUC).
A Notice of Inventory Completion (66 FR 54283) published in the
Federal Register on October 26, 2001, for Native American human remains
and associated funerary objects related to the 1975 excavation, which
were previously in the possession of Sonoma State University (SSU). The
one individual and 217 catalog entries of associated funerary objects
described in that notice were not repatriated at the time as no request
for repatriation was received. At the request of the consulting
culturally affiliated Indian Tribe, the entirely of the collection at
SSU (Acc. 75-12) has been transferred into the possession of CSUC to
reunite the individual and associated funerary objects with the
cultural items recovered during the 2004 excavation (Acc. 362). The one
individual and 528 catalog entries of associated funerary objects
represent the entirety of both collections (Acc. 75-12 and Acc. 362).
There is no known history of treatment of the collection with any
hazardous substances at any of the repositories at this time.
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 human remains and associated
funerary objects described in this notice.
Determinations
The California Department of Transportation has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 528 catalog entries 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.
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the human remains
and associated funerary objects described in this notice and the
Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake, California.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
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 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 July 17, 2024. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the California
Department of Transportation 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. The California Department of
Transportation 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: June 7, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-13242 Filed 6-14-24; 8:45 am]
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