Notice2025-07439
Notice of Inventory Completion: California Department of Transportation, Oakland, CA
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Published
April 30, 2025
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 associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 82 (Wednesday, April 30, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17966-17967]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-07439]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040033; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: California Department of
Transportation, 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), the California Department of Transportation
(Caltrans) has completed an inventory of associated funerary objects
and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the
associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice
may occur on or after May 30, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Lindsay Busse PQS Principal Investigator, Prehistoric
Archaeology, California Department of Transportation, District 4, 111
Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA 94612, telephone (510) 847-1977, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#690500070d1a0810470b1c1a1a0c290d061d470a08470e061f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8ee2e7e0eafdeff7a0ecfbfdfdebceeae1faa0edefa0e9e1f8">[email protected]</span></a> and Althea Asaro, PQS Principal Investigator,
Prehistoric Archaeology, California Department of Transportation,
District 4, 111 Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA 94612, telephone (510) 847-
2178, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#41202d352924206f203220332e01252e356f22206f262e37"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3859544c505d5916594b594a57785c574c165b59165f574e">[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 the
Caltrans, and additional information on the determinations in this
notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in its
inventory or related records. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Associated funerary objects have been identified totaling 1,182
catalog entries representing lithics, paleobotanicals, soil samples,
faunal remains, shell, shell beads, light fraction samples, ground
stone, baked clay, and post-contact historic artifacts. Of the 1,182
associated funerary objects, eight catalog numbers are missing and
Caltrans and Sonoma State University (SSU) continue to look for them.
These collections, known as the ``Gleason Beach Collections,'' are from
Sonoma County along Highway 1 and are housed at SSU. The collections
are the result of Caltrans project-delivery related excavations at the
following sites between 1977 and 2020: CA-SON-346 (Acc. 2013-024); CA-
SON-347 (Acc. 77-016, 2013-028, 2019-061, 2020-005, and an
unaccessioned 2003 collection); CA-SON-2585 (Acc. 2013-026); CA-SON-
2612 (Acc. 2013-027); and CA-SON-465/H (Acc. 2013-025). There are no
known/documented potentially hazardous substances used to treat any of
the cultural items. As a result of consultation, the Kashia Band of
Pomo Indians of the Stewarts Point Rancheria deferred to the Federated
Indians of Graton Rancheria.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available
about the associated funerary objects described in this notice.
Determinations
Caltrans has determined that:
<bullet> The 1,182 objects 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.
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<bullet> There is a connection between the associated funerary
objects described in this notice and the Federated Indians of Graton
Rancheria, California.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the 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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation.
Repatriation of the associated funerary objects described in this
notice to a requestor may occur on or after May 30, 2025. If competing
requests for repatriation are received, Caltrans must determine the
most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the associated funerary objects are considered a single
request and not competing requests. Caltrans 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: April 15, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-07439 Filed 4-29-25; 8:45 am]
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