Notice2025-04172
Notice of Intended Disposition: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, San Juan National Forest, Durango, CO
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Published
March 17, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, San Juan National Forest (Forest Service) intends to carry out the disposition of human remains and associated funerary objects removed from Federal or Tribal lands to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization with priority for disposition in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 50 (Monday, March 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12349-12350]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-04172]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039430; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Disposition: U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Forest Service, San Juan National Forest, Durango, CO
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 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest
Service, San Juan National Forest (Forest Service) intends to carry out
the disposition of human remains and associated funerary objects
removed from Federal or Tribal lands to the lineal descendants, Indian
Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization with priority for disposition in
this notice.
DATES: Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice may occur on or after April 16, 2025. If no claim for
disposition is received by March 17, 2026, the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice will become unclaimed human
remains and associated funerary objects.
ADDRESSES: Michelle Stevens, U.S. Forest Service, San Juan National
Forest, 15 Burnett Court, Durango, CO 81301, telephone (970) 385-1250,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#34595d575c515858511a47405142515a4774414750551a535b42"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="abc6c2c8c3cec7c7ce85d8dfceddcec5d8ebded8cfca85ccc4dd">[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 the Forest Service, and additional information
on the human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice,
including the results of consultation, can be found in the related
records. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
identifications in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Based on the information available, human remains representing, at
least, 10 individuals have been reasonably identified. The one
associated funerary object is one lot of 10 pottery sherds from one
fragmented bowl.
Between June 25 and September 7, 2021, human remains representing
at least nine individuals and one associated funerary object were
recovered from Forest Service site 02130203595/5MT2189. The one
associated funerary object is one lot of 10 pottery sherds from a
fragmented Chapin Gray bowl.
Between July 2 and July 15, 2022, human remains representing one
individual were recovered from Forest Service site 02130203976/5MT5308.
Both sites are within National Register of Historic Places
Archaeological District 5MT6599. The human remains and associated
funerary object were recovered by the U.S. Forest Service when found
eroding from the shorelines of McPhee Reservoir on the Dolores Ranger
District, San Juan National Forest, Montezuma County, CO.
Forest Service site 02130203595/5MT2189 consists of a large Pueblo
I habitation with two room blocks, a midden, 23 features, and an
associated artifact scatter comprised of pottery sherds, flaked and
ground stone, non-human bone, and adobe fragments. Diagnostic pottery
suggests that this site was occupied by ancestral Puebloans during the
Pueblo I period, A.D. 750-900.
Site 02130203976/5MT5308 consists of two artifact concentrations
with flaked stone and a pottery sherd. No temporally diagnostic
artifacts are present. Based on archaeological context and geographic
location, the site was occupied by Native Americans between the
Basketmaker III and post-Puebloan periods, A.D. 500-1840.
Determinations
The Forest Service has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 10 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The one associated funerary object described in this
notice is 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> Based on archaeological context and geographic location
the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, & Utah;
Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo
of San Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo
of Santa Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Taos, New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New
Mexico; Santo Domingo Pueblo; Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern
Ute Reservation, Colorado; Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray
Reservation, Utah; Ute Mountain Ute Tribe; and the Zuni Tribe of the
Zuni Reservation, New Mexico have priority for disposition of the human
remains and associated funerary objects described in this notice.
Claims for Disposition
Written claims for disposition of the human remains and associated
funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the appropriate
official identified in this notice under ADDRESSES. If no claim for
disposition is received by March 17, 2026, the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice will become unclaimed human
remains and associated funerary objects. Claims for disposition may be
submitted by:
1. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization 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 they have priority for disposition.
Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects in
this notice may occur on or after April 16, 2025. If competing claims
for disposition are received, the Forest Service must determine the
most appropriate claimant prior to disposition. Requests for joint
disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects are
considered a single request and not competing requests. The Forest
Service is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the lineal
descendants, 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. 3002, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.7.
Dated: January 28, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-04172 Filed 3-14-25; 8:45 am]
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