Notice2025-22997
Notice of Inventory Completion: New Mexico Junior College, Hobbs, NM
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Published
December 17, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the New Mexico Junior College has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is no lineal descendant and no Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with cultural affiliation.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 240 (Wednesday, December 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58578-58579]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-22997]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6652; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0041385; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: New Mexico Junior College, Hobbs,
NM
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 New Mexico Junior College has completed
an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is no
lineal descendant and no Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization
with cultural affiliation.
DATES: Upon request, repatriation of the human remains in this notice
may occur on or after January 16, 2026.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
in this notice to Ben Kimball, New Mexico Junior College, 1 Thunderbird
Circle, Hobbs, NM 88240, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d7b5bcbebab5b6bbbb97b9babdb4f9b2b3a2"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="90f2fbf9fdf2f1fcfcd0fefdfaf3bef5f4e5">[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
New Mexico Junior College, 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 have been
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. While surveying
New Mexico Junior College departments for all NAGPRA-related material
in June of 2024, an individual was located in the Arts and Sciences
Department. Records indicate the individual was acquired from the
Carolina Biological Supply Company in the late 1970s to early 1980s. No
geographic location information about this individual is available. New
Mexico Junior College has no knowledge or record of any potentially
hazardous substances used to treat the human remains.
Consultation
Invitations to consult were sent to the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma;
Comanche Nation, Oklahoma; Fort McDowell
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Yavapai Nation, Arizona; Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Hopi Tribe
of Arizona; Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico; Kiowa Indian Tribe of
Oklahoma; Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New
Mexico; Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo
of Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez,
New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo
of San Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo
of Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa
Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San
Carlos Reservation, Arizona; Santo Domingo Pueblo; Tonto Apache Tribe
of Arizona; White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation,
Arizona; Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian Reservation,
Arizona; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni
Reservation, New Mexico. In May of 2025, New Mexico Junior College
conducted outreach phone calls, and the following Tribes provided
guidance: Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico; and the Pueblo of Zia, New
Mexico.
Cultural Affiliation
The following types of information about the cultural affiliation
of the human remains in this notice are available: biological. The
information, including the results of consultation, identified:
1. No earlier group connected to the human remains.
2. No Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization is connected to
the human remains.
3. No relationship of shared group identity between the earlier
group and the Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization can be
reasonably traced through time.
Determinations
The New Mexico Junior College has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> No known lineal descendant who can trace ancestry to the
human remains in this notice has been identified.
<bullet> No Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation to the human remains described in this notice has
been clearly or reasonably identified.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains in this
notice must be sent to the authorized representative identified in this
notice under ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by
any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization
who shows, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the requester is a
lineal descendant or an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization
with cultural affiliation.
Upon request, repatriation of the human remains described in this
notice to a requestor may occur on or after January 16, 2026. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the New Mexico Junior
College must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to
repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains are
considered a single request and not competing requests. The New Mexico
Junior College is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the
Indian Tribes or 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: November 20, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-22997 Filed 12-16-25; 8:45 am]
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