Notice2025-20111
Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: Trinity University, San Antonio, TX; University of Texas at Austin, Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, Austin, TX; and University of Texas at Austin, Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, Austin, TX
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Published
November 18, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Trinity University (Trinity), University of Texas at Austin, Texas Archeological Research Laboratory (TARL), and and University of Texas at Austin, Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory (VPL) have amended a notice of inventory completion published in the Federal Register on August 5, 2025. This notice amends the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations with cultural affiliation.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 220 (Tuesday, November 18, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51780-51781]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-20111]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6576; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0041252; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: Trinity University, San
Antonio, TX; University of Texas at Austin, Texas Archeological
Research Laboratory, Austin, TX; and University of Texas at Austin,
Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, Austin, TX
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), Trinity University (Trinity), University of
Texas at Austin, Texas Archeological Research Laboratory (TARL), and
and University of Texas at Austin, Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory
(VPL) have amended a notice of inventory completion published in the
Federal Register on August 5, 2025. This notice amends the Indian
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations with cultural affiliation.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects may occur on or after December 18, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects to Maggie Moore, Trinity University,
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 1 Trinity Place, San Antonio,
TX 78212-7200, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0e636361617c6b3d4e7a7c6760677a77206b6a7b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a1ccccceced3c492e1d5d3c8cfc8d5d88fc4c5d4">[email protected]</span></a>; Jessica Ulmer, The University
of Texas at Austin Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory, 1
University Station, R7500, Austin, TX 78712, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#83e9e6f0f0eae0e2adf6efeee6f1c3e2f6f0f7eaedadf6f7e6fbe2f0ade6e7f6"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="bdd7d8ceced4dedc93c8d1d0d8cffddcc8cec9d4d393c8c9d8c5dcce93d8d9c8">[email protected]</span></a>; or Chris Sagebiel, The University of
Texas at Austin Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, J. J. Pickle
Research Campus, The University of Texas, 3333 Read Granberry Trl.
(VPL, bldg. 6), Austin, TX 78758, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2b584a4c4e49424e476b4a5e585f4245055e5f4e534a58054e4f5e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c3b0a2a4a6a1aaa6af83a2b6b0b7aaadedb6b7a6bba2b0eda6a7b6">[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
Trinity, TARL, and VPL, 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 determination of cultural affiliation
published in a notice of inventory completion in the Federal Register
(90 FR 37554, August 5, 2025). Repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in the original notice of inventory
completion has not occurred.
Determinations
Trinity, TARL, and VPL have determined that:
<bullet> There is a connection between the human remains and
associated funerary objects described in the original notice and the
Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Comanche Nation,
Oklahoma; Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas; Mescalero Apache Tribe
of the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico; Shawnee Tribe; The Seminole
Nation of Oklahoma; Thlopthlocco Tribal Town; Wichita and Affiliated
Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco, & Tawakonie), Oklahoma; and the Ysleta
del Sur Pueblo.
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
December 18, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received,
Trinity, TARL, and VPL 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. Trinity, TARL, and VPL are 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.
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Dated: September 25, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-20111 Filed 11-17-25; 8:45 am]
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