Notice2025-16121
Notice of Inventory Completion: Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, FL
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Published
August 22, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Florida Department of State (FDOS) 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 161 (Friday, August 22, 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: 2025-16121]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6464; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040884; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Florida Department of State,
Tallahassee, FL
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 Florida Department of State (FDOS) 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 22, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice to Tea Kaplan, Florida
Department of State, 2100 W Tennessee Street, Tallahassee, FL 32304,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#7e2a1b1f50351f0e121f103e1a110d50181250191108"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a9fdccc887e2c8d9c5c8c7e9cdc6da87cfc587cec6df">[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
FDOS, 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, 15 individuals have been
identified. The three associated funerary objects are sand temper
ceramic sherds. Ancestral remains and objects were collected in six
instances from Nassau County, Florida. Remains from Fernandina Plaza
Lot were transferred to the Department by Fort Clinch State Park in
1991 and 1994. These Ancestral human remains were likely removed during
excavations by R. Bullen and J. Griffin at eh Fernandina Town Plaza in
1951-52. Additional remains from Fort Clinch Beach were removed from
the surface of beach erosion exposures by Department staff during an
archaeological survey in 1975, and by park visitors and staff, the
latter of which were transferred to the Department in 1991. In 1977,
the City of Fernandina Beach transferred Ancestral remains to the
Department that were exposed by a city construction crew. Lastly,
Ancestral remains were transferred to the Department from the C.A.
Pound Human Identification Lab in 2006 under 872.05, Florida Statutes.
The remains were discovered exposed on Fernandina Beach in 2005.
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 FDOS has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 15 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The three 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 Alabama-
Coushatta Tribe of Texas; Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town; Coushatta
Tribe of Louisiana; Kialegee Tribal Town; Miccosukee Tribe of Indians;
Poarch Band of Creek Indians; Seminole Tribe of Florida; The Muscogee
(Creek) Nation; The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma; and the Thlopthlocco
Tribal Town.
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
22, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the FDOS
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 FDOS 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: August 13, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-16121 Filed 8-21-25; 8:45 am]
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