Notice2025-08034
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: 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) intend to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of objects of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 88 (Thursday, May 8, 2025)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-08034]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040085; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: 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) intend to repatriate
certain cultural items that meet the definition of objects of cultural
patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes
or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 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#fd909c8f96d38a95989891988fbd9e8e888ed3989988"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6f020e1d044118070a0a030a1d2f0c1c1a1c410a0b1a">[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#e2818a83908e8791cc808781898f838ca287808f9786cc818d8f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b4d7dcd5c6d8d1c79ad6d1d7dfd9d5daf4d1d6d9c1d09ad7dbd9">[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 the summary or related records. The
National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this
notice.
Abstract of Information Available
The 1,092 cultural items have been requested for repatriation. The
1,092 objects of cultural patrimony include flaked and ground stones;
faunal and flora remains; unmodified stones; historic objects; modified
shell, bone, stone and wood objects; thermally altered rocks; soil
samples; and unidentified materials. Of this number, at least three
objects are currently missing from the collections. California State
University, Sacramento continues to look for any missing objects. These
objects were removed from several sites in Calaveras County, CA in the
1950s and 1960s as a result of various survey and excavation projects
caried out under the direction of California State University,
Sacramento faculty and students William Beeson, Jerald Johnson, Louis
Payen, William Hansen, and David Boloyan prior to the inundation of
Camanche Reservoir. These sites include CAL-105, CAL-186 (also known as
Hidden Cave), CAL-188 (also known as Big Cave), CAL-194 (also known as
Hole in Rock Cave), CAL-218 (also known as Cemetery One Cave), CAL-219
(also known as Pipe Line #1), CAL-231 (also known as two by four Cave),
CAL-Little Creek, and unknown locations. The objects have since been
housed at the California State University, Sacramento under accessions
81-427, 81-366, 81-367, 81-196, 81-198, 81-426, 81-428, 81-430, and
1974-30-82e.
Determinations
The California State University, Sacramento and EBMUD have
determined that:
<bullet> The 1,092 objects of cultural patrimony described in this
notice have 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), according to the Native American traditional knowledge of
an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and the California
Valley Miwok Tribe, California.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items
in this notice must be sent to the authorized representative identified
in this notice under ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be
submitted by 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 cultural items 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 cultural items 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 and to any other consulting
parties.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3004 and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.
Dated: April 22, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-08034 Filed 5-7-25; 8:45 am]
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