Notice2025-16122
Notice of Inventory Completion: Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District, Phoenix, AZ
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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 Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District 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]
[Pages 41110-41111]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-16122]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6465; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040885; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Salt River Project Agricultural
Improvement and Power District, Phoenix, AZ
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 Salt River Project Agricultural
Improvement and Power District 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 Marissa Sotomayor,
Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District, PAB355,
P.O. Box 52025, Phoenix, AZ 85072-2025, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b8f5d9cad1cbcbd996ebd7ccd7d5d9c1d7caf8cbcac8d6ddcc96dbd7d5"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="89c4e8fbe0fafae8a7dae6fde6e4e8f0e6fbc9fafbf9e7ecfda7eae6e4">[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
Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District, 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, one individual has been
identified. The two associated funerary objects are ceramic vessels:
one ceramic burial urn containing the remains of the individual and one
ceramic bowl. The individual is of indeterminate age and sex. Based on
the information available, the human remains of one individual and two
associated funerary objects were removed from a site in Arizona,
Maricopa County, by Audie Russell Kelley (b. 1907 d. 1954); the date of
removal is unknown. The collection was previously in the possession of
archaeologist Audie Russell Kelley and was sold to the Salt River
Project in 1973 by his wife, Peggy Kelley, following his death.
Salt River Project records indicate no known hazardous substances
used to treat any of the human remains or associated funerary objects.
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 Salt River Agricultural Improvement and Power District has
determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The two 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 Gila River
Indian Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona and the
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River
Reservation, Arizona.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary
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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 Salt
River Agricultural Improvement and Power District 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 Salt River
Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District 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: August 13, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-16122 Filed 8-21-25; 8:45 am]
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