Notice2025-14803
Notice of Inventory Completion: California Department of Parks and Recreation, Sacramento, CA
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Published
August 5, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the California Department of Parks and Recreation has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 148 (Tuesday, August 5, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37557-37558]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-14803]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6403; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040776; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: California Department of Parks
and Recreation, Sacramento, 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 Parks and
Recreation has completed an inventory of human remains and associated
funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural
affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects
and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after September 4, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice to Dr. Leslie L.
Hartzell, NAGPRA Coordinator, California Department of Parks and
Recreation, P.O. Box 942896, Sacramento, CA 94296-0001, 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 the
California Department of Parks and Recreation, 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
Human remains representing, at least, four individuals and 14 lots
of associated funerary objects have been identified (Acc. Number P296/
BIR 50). The 14 lots of associated funerary objects are one lot of
beads, one lot of faunal bone, one lot of fire fractured stone, two
lots of flakes, one lot of manos, three lots of Haliotis ornaments,
three lots of pestles, and two lots of unmodified rocks. The human
remains and associated funerary objects were removed from a portion of
site CA-SAC-53 (Wagner Mound) located on private land, by Louis Arthur
``Sam'' Payen of the California Department of Parks and Recreation in
1956 and 1957.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location or acquisition history of the human remains and associated
funerary objects described in this notice.
Determinations
The California Department of Parks and Recreation has determined
that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of at least four individuals of Native American
ancestry.
<bullet> The 14 lots of 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.
<bullet> There is a connection between the human remains and
associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Ione Band
of Miwok Indians of California and the Wilton Rancheria, 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 September
4, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the
California Department of Parks and Recreation 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
Department of Parks and Recreation 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: July 28, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-14803 Filed 8-4-25; 8:45 am]
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