Notice2025-04173
Notice of Intended Disposition: U.S. Department of Defense, Navy, Naval Base Coronado San Clemente Island, San Diego, CA
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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), U.S. Department of Defense, Navy, Naval Base Coronado San Clemente Island (Naval Base Coronado), intends to carry out the disposition of unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, or objects of cultural patrimony 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 12336-12337]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-04173]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039431; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Disposition: U.S. Department of Defense, Navy,
Naval Base Coronado San Clemente Island, San Diego, 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), U.S. Department of Defense, Navy, Naval Base
Coronado San Clemente Island (Naval Base Coronado), intends to carry
out the disposition of unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects,
or objects of cultural patrimony removed from Federal or Tribal lands
to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribe, or
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Native Hawaiian organization with priority for disposition in this
notice.
DATES: Disposition of the cultural items in this notice may occur on or
after April 16, 2025. If no claim for disposition is received by March
17, 2026, the cultural items in this notice will become unclaimed
cultural items.
ADDRESSES: Richard G. Bark, Senior Region Archaeologist, Naval
Facilities Engineering Systems Command Southwest, 750 Pacific Highway,
Floor 12, San Diego, CA 92132, telephone (619) 705-5672, email
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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 Naval
Base Coronado, and additional information on the cultural items 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, at least one unassociated
funerary object, and at least one sacred object/object of cultural
patrimony have been collected from San Clemente Island including lithic
tools, debitage, groundstone tools, pitted stones, taring pebbles,
stone bowls, donut stones, stone pendants, ceramic fragments, ceramic
effigies, stone effigies, basketry fragments, shell beads, shell
fishhooks, modified and unmodified bone, fish bones, shellfish, ochre
fragments, fire-affected rock, pieces of asphaltum, charcoal samples,
radiocarbon samples, soil samples, and column samples. The unassociated
funerary objects and sacred objects/objects of cultural patrimony were
excavated from 130 sites on San Clemente Island, Los Angeles County, CA
by the Northridge Center for Public Archaeology and various entities
working under contract for the Navy between 1991 and 2015. These
excavations resulted in the removal of thousands of cultural items
comprising approximately 380 boxes.
Determinations
Naval Base Coronado has determined that:
<bullet> The one (at least) unassociated funerary objects described
in this notice is reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally
with or near human remains, and is connected, either at the time of
death or later as part of the death rite or ceremony of a Native
American culture according to the Native American traditional knowledge
of a lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization.
The unassociated funerary objects have been identified by a
preponderance of the evidence as related to human remains, specific
individuals, or families, or removed from a specific burial site or
burial area of an individual or individuals with cultural affiliation
to an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization.
<bullet> The one (at least) sacred objects/objects of cultural
patrimony described in this notice is, according to the Native American
traditional knowledge of an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization, a specific ceremonial object needed by a traditional
Native American religious leader for present-day adherents to practice
traditional Native American religion, and has ongoing historical,
traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native American
group, including any constituent sub-group (such as a band, clan,
lineage, ceremonial society, or other subdivision).
<bullet> The La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians, California; Pala
Band of Mission Indians; Pauma Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the
Pauma & Yuima Reservation, California; Pechanga Band of Indians
(previously listed as Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the
Pechanga Reservation, California); Rincon Band of Luiseno Mission
Indians of Rincon Reservation, California; Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez Reservation, California; and the
Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians, California have priority for
disposition of the cultural items described in this notice.
Claims for Disposition
Written claims for disposition of the cultural items 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 cultural items in this notice will become unclaimed cultural
items. 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 cultural items in this notice may occur on or
after April 16, 2025. If competing claims for disposition are received,
Naval Base Coronado must determine the most appropriate claimant prior
to disposition. Requests for joint disposition of the cultural items
are considered a single request and not competing requests. Naval Base
Coronado 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. 2025-04173 Filed 3-14-25; 8:45 am]
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