Notice2025-11934
Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: San José State University, San José, CA
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Published
June 27, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), San Jos[eacute] State University has amended a notice of inventory completion published in the Federal Register on January 3, 2024. This notice amends the Indian Tribes listed in the original notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 122 (Friday, June 27, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27671-27672]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11934]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040447; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: San Jos[eacute] State
University, San Jos[eacute], CA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; amendment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), San Jos[eacute] State University has amended
a notice of inventory completion published in the Federal Register on
January 3, 2024. This notice amends the Indian Tribes listed in the
original notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects may occur on or after July 28, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the cultural items
in this notice to Alisha Marie Ragland, San Jos[eacute] State
University, One Washington Square, San Jose, CA 95192, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#13727f7a607b723d6172747f727d7753607960663d767766"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a3c2cfcad0cbc28dd1c2c4cfc2cdc7e3d0c9d0d68dc6c7d6">[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 San
Jos[eacute] State University, 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.
Amendment
This notice amends the list of Indian Tribes published in a notice
of inventory completion in the Federal Register (89 FR 393, January 3,
2024). Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in the original notice of inventory completion has not
occurred.
Determinations
San Jose State University has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains and associated funerary objects
described in the original notice were removed from the aboriginal land
of the Big Sandy Rancheria of Western Mono Indians of California; 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;
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Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of California; Santa Rosa
Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California; Table
Mountain Rancheria; and the Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River
Reservation, California.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in the original 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 the original notice to a requestor may occur on or after
July 28, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, San
Jos[eacute] State University 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. San Jos[eacute] State University is
responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and
Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice and any other
consulting parties.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: June 17, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-11934 Filed 6-26-25; 8:45 am]
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