Notice2025-08033
Notice of Inventory Completion: California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA and East Bay Municipal Utility District, Oakland, CA
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Published
May 8, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the California State University, Sacramento, and East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) have completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and have determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 88 (Thursday, May 8, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 19518]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-08033]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040084; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: 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), the California State University, Sacramento,
and East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) have completed an
inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and have
determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human
remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes in this
notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after June 9, 2025.
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#5e333f2c357029363b3b323b2c1e3d2d2b2d703b3a2b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5835392a33762f303d3d343d2a183b2b2d2b763d3c2d">[email protected]</span></a> and
Charles 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#06656e67746a6375286463656d6b67684663646b73622865696b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="690a01081b050c1a470b0c0a02040807290c0b041c0d470a0604">[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
California State University, Sacramento, and EBMUD, and additional
information on the determinations in this notice, including the results
of consultation, can be found in their inventory or related records.
The National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in
this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Human remains representing, at minimum, 90 individuals were removed
from CA-CAL-185 (also known as Camanche Creek Cave), CA-CAL-191 (also
known as Cook Ranch #6), CA-CAL-198 (also known as Canal Cave), CA-CAL-
217 (also known as Hagar Village), CA-CAL-224 (also known as the Dance
House Site or No Name Creek), and CA-CAL-237 (also known as the Old
Bridge Site). The 45,740 associated funerary objects removed from these
sites include baked clay objects; flaked and ground stones; unmodified
stones; historic materials; faunal and floral remains; modified bone,
stone, shell, and wood objects; pigments; geologic samples; coprolites;
thermally altered rocks; manuports; ash; charcoal samples; unidentified
objects; soil samples; and slag. Of this number, at least 807 objects
are currently missing from the collections. California State
University, Sacramento continues to look for any missing objects. These
human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from the
sites listed above during surveys and excavations conducted in the
1950s and 1960s prior to the inundation of Camanche Reservoir under the
direction of California State University, Sacramento faculty and
students William Beeson, Jerald Johnson, Louis Payen, William Hansen,
and David Boloyan. They have since been housed at the California State
University, Sacramento under accession numbers 81-195, 81-429, 81-197,
81-199, 81-425, and 81-194.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available
about the human remains and associated funerary objects described in
this notice.
Determinations
The California State University, Sacramento and EBMUD have
determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 90 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 45,740 objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed 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 relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary
objects described in this notice and the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-
Wuk Indians of California; California Valley Miwok Tribe, California;
Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Ione Band of
Miwok Indians of California; Jackson Band of Miwuk Indians; and the
Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria of
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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after June 9,
2025. 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 human remains and associated funerary objects are
considered a single request and not competing requests. The California
State University, Sacramento and EBMUD are 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 22, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-08033 Filed 5-7-25; 8:45 am]
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