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Conservation Grant Program. The 

Improvement Act authorizes us to 

award grants of up to $3 million 

annually from funds available under 

each of the Restoration Acts, for a total 

of up to $6 million annually. We may 

award grants from a list of priority 

projects recommended to us by AFWA. 

The FWS Director, exercising the 

authority of the Secretary of the Interior, 

need not fund all projects on the list, 

but all projects funded must be on the 

list. 

Grantees under this program may use 

funds for sport fisheries and wildlife 

management and research projects, 

boating access development, hunter 

safety and education, aquatic education, 

fish and wildlife habitat improvements, 

and other purposes consistent with the 

enabling legislation. 

To be eligible for funding, a project 

must benefit fish and/or wildlife 

conservation in at least 26 States, or in 

a majority of the States in any one FWS 

Region, or it must benefit a regional 

association of State fish and wildlife 

agencies. We may award grants to a 

State, a group of States, or one or more 

nongovernmental organizations. For the 

purpose of carrying out the National 

Survey of Fishing, Hunting and 

Wildlife-Associated Recreation, we may 

award grants to the FWS, if requested by 

AFWA, or to a State or a group of States. 

Also, AFWA requires all project 

proposals to address its National 

Conservation Needs, which are 

announced annually by AFWA at the 

same time as its request for proposals. 

Further, applicants must provide 

certification that no activities conducted 

under a Multistate Conservation grant 

will promote or encourage opposition to 

regulated hunting or trapping of wildlife 

or to regulated angling or taking of fish. 

Eligible project proposals are 

reviewed and ranked by AFWA 

Committees and interested 

nongovernmental organizations that 

represent conservation organizations, 

sportsmen’s organizations, and 

industries that support or promote 

fishing, hunting, trapping, recreational 

shooting, bowhunting, or archery. 

AFWA’s Committee on National Grants 

recommends a final list of priority 

projects to the directors of State fish and 

wildlife agencies for their approval by 

majority vote. By statute, AFWA then 

must transmit the final approved list to 

the FWS for funding under the 

Multistate Conservation Grant program 

by October 1. 

This year, we received a list of 12 

recommended projects. We recommend 

them for funding in 2011. AFWA’s 

recommended list follows: 

MSCGP 2011 CYCLE RECOMMENDED PROJECTS

ID Title Submitter WR request SFR request Total 2011 

grant request 

11–014 .............. Coordination of Farm Bill Program Implementation to 

Optimize Fish & Wildlife Benefits to the States.

AFWA ................ $82,962.00 $82,962.00 $165,924.00 

11–058 .............. State Fish and Wildlife Agency Director Travel Coordination and Administration.AFWA ................ 83,325.00 83,325.00 166,650.00 

11–060 .............. Assessing Agency Capacities to Manage Fish and 

Wildlife Health.

Cornell University 90,042.00 90,042.00 180,085.00 

11–063 .............. National Fish Habitat Board Action Plan Implementation.AFWA ................ 0 240,000.00 240,000.00 

11–026 .............. Coordination of the Industry, Federal and State 

Agency Coalition.

AFWA ................ 90,600.00 90,600.00 181,200.00 

11–001 .............. Review and Assessment of Bioenergy Provisions in 

the 2008 Farm Bill.

AFWA ................ 46,200.00 46,200.00 92,400.00 

11–071 .............. Management Assistance Team .................................. AFWA ................ 487,923.00 487,923.00 975,846.00 

11–015 .............. Economic and other Benefits of State Public Access 

Programs and Implementation of the Voluntary 

Public Access and Habitat Incentive Program.

AFWA ................ 85,525.00 85,525.00 171,050.00 

11–069 .............. Operation of the Reservoir Fisheries Habitat Partnership.Arkansas Game 

& Fish.

0 296,000.00 296,000.00 

11–023 .............. Trailblazer Adventure Program: Involving Youth and 

Families in Conservation.

U.S. Sportsman

Alliance Foundation.

160,000.00 0 160,000.00 

11–009 .............. Expanding Western Farm Bill Conservation Program 

Delivery through Biologist Partnerships.

Pheasants Forever & Quail 

Forever.

180,000.00 20,000.00 200,000.00 

11–025 .............. Conservation Leaders for Tomorrow Professional 

Development Project.

WMI ................... 261,000.00 0 261,000.00 

Total ........... ..................................................................................... ....................... 1,522,577.00 1,567,577.00 3,090,154.00 

Dated: October 28, 2010. 

Rowan W. Gould, 

Acting Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[2253–65] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: U.S. Department of the Interior, 

National Park Service, Natchez Trace 

Parkway, Tupelo, MS 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Notice is here given in accordance 

with the Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act 

(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent 

to repatriate cultural items in the 

possession of the U.S. Department of the 

Interior, National Park Service, Natchez 

Trace Parkway, Tupelo, MS, that meet 

the definition of unassociated funerary 

objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001. 

This notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 


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responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 

U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in 

this notice are the sole responsibility of 

the Superintendent, Natchez Trace 

Parkway, Tupelo, MS. 

In 1951, unassociated funerary objects 

were removed from the Mangum site, 

Claiborne County, MS, during 

authorized National Park Service survey 

and excavation projects. The 

whereabouts of the human remains is 

unknown. The 34 unassociated funerary 

objects are 6 ceramic vessel fragments, 

1 ceramic jar, 4 projectile points, 6 shell 

ornaments, 2 shells, 1 stone tool, 1 stone 

artifact, 1 polished stone, 2 pieces of 

petrified wood, 2 bone artifacts, 1 

worked antler, 2 discoidals, 3 cupreous 

metal fragments and 2 soil/shell 

samples. The Mangum site is a large 

hilltop cemetery located in Claiborne 

County, MS. Objects recovered from the 

burials indicate that the site was in use 

during the Mississippian period (A.D. 

1000–1650). In 1540, the De Soto 

expedition likely encountered the 

Taensa people in the vicinity of the 

Mangum site. In 1682, the de La Salle 

expedition documented the Taensa and 

Tunica in the same area. In 1706, the 

Taensa were driven from the area, 

migrating first to Bayogula, and then to 

Mobile, where they may have settled 

with the Choctaw. In 1764, the Taensa 

again moved, first to the Red River in 

south Louisiana, and finally to the 

Bayou Boeuf area where they lived with 

the Chitimacha. Representatives of the 

Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana have 

identified similarities between the 

burial practices observed at the Mangum 

site and those of the Chitimacha. 

Historical documentation also indicates 

that the Tunica buried individuals in 

hilltop cemeteries in open country, 

matching the burial practice observed 

on the Mangum site. Historical 

documentation indicates that some 

Taensa may have married into the 

Alabama tribe, the descendants of 

whom now constitute the AlabamaCoushatta Tribes of Texas and the 

Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town, 

Oklahoma. 

Officials of Natchez Trace Parkway 

have determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 

3001(3)(B), that the 34 cultural items 

described above are reasonably believed 

to have been placed with or near 

individual human remains at the time of 

death or later as part of the death rite 

or ceremony and are believed, by a 

preponderance of the evidence, to have 

been removed from a specific burial site 

of a Native American individual. 

Officials of Natchez Trace Parkway also 

have determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 

3001(2), that there is a relationship of 

shared group identity that can be 

reasonably traced between the 

unassociated funerary objects and the 

Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas; 

Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town, 

Oklahoma; Chitimacha Tribe of 

Louisiana; Choctaw Nation of 

Oklahoma; Jena Band of Choctaw 

Indians, Louisiana; Mississippi Band of 

Choctaw Indians, Mississippi; and 

Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of Louisiana. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the unassociated funerary 

objects should contact Cameron H. 

Sholly, Superintendent, Natchez Trace 

Parkway, 2680 Natchez Trace Parkway, 

Tupelo, MS 38803, telephone (662) 680– 

4005, before February 7, 2011. 

Repatriation of the unassociated 

funerary objects to the AlabamaCoushatta Tribes of Texas; AlabamaQuassarte Tribal Town, Oklahoma; 

Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana; Choctaw 

Nation of Oklahoma; Jena Band of 

Choctaw Indians, Louisiana; Mississippi 

Band of Choctaw Indians, Mississippi; 

and Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of 

Louisiana, may proceed after that date if 

no additional claimants come forward. 

Natchez Trace Parkway is responsible 

for notifying the Absentee-Shawnee 

Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; AlabamaCoushatta Tribes of Texas; AlabamaQuassarte Tribal Town, Oklahoma; 

Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma; Chickasaw 

Nation, Oklahoma; Chitimacha Tribe of 

Louisiana; Choctaw Nation of 

Oklahoma; Eastern Band of Cherokee 

Indians of North Carolina; Eastern 

Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Jena Band 

of Choctaw Indians, Louisiana; Kialegee 

Tribal Town, Oklahoma; Miccosukee 

Tribe of Indians of Florida; Mississippi 

Band of Choctaw Indians, Mississippi; 

Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Oklahoma; 

Poarch Band of Creek Indians of 

Alabama; Seminole Nation of 

Oklahoma; Seminole Tribe of Florida 

(Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton, 

Hollywood & Tampa Reservations); 

Shawnee Tribe, Oklahoma; 

Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, Oklahoma; 

Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of Louisiana; 

and United Keetoowah Band of 

Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma, that this 

notice has been published. 

Dated: December 28, 2010. 

Sangita Chari, 

Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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BILLING CODE 4312–50–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[2253–65] 

Notice of Inventory Completion for 

Native American Human Remains and 

Associated Funerary Objects in the 

Possession of the U.S. Department of 

the Interior, National Park Service, 

Natchez Trace Parkway, Tupelo, MS; 

Correction 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; correction. 

Notice is here given in accordance 

with the Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act 

(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the 

completion of an inventory of human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in the possession of the U.S. Department 

of the Interior, National Park Service, 

Natchez Trace Parkway, Tupelo, MS. 

The human remains and cultural items 

were removed from Claiborne County, 

MS. 

This notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 

U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in 

this notice are the sole responsibility of 

the Superintendent, Natchez Trace 

Parkway, Tupelo, MS. 

This notice corrects the total number 

and types of associated funerary objects 

for a Notice of Inventory Completion 

published in the Federal Register (67 

FR 910–911, January 8, 2002). Since 

publication an additional 148 associated 

funerary objects have been discovered. 

Therefore, in the Federal Register, page 

910, paragraph number 4 is corrected by 

substituting the following paragraph: 

In 1951 and 1963, human remains 

representing 124 individuals were 

recovered from the Mangum site during 

authorized National Park Service survey 

and excavation projects. No known 

individuals were identified. There are 

no funerary objects associated with the 

one individual recovered in 1951. The 

123 individuals recovered in 1963 are 

associated with 182 funerary objects: 86 

ceramic vessel fragments, 1 ceramic jar, 

1 tobacco pipe, 1 frog effigy, 9 projectile 

points, 4 shell ornaments, 2 shells, 37 

shell beads, 1 shell pendant, 1 shell 

dipper, 4 stone tools, 2 stone artifacts, 

6 flakes, 2 pieces of shatter, 2 chisels, 

3 polished stones, 8 celts, 2 faunal 

bones, 9 cupreous metal fragments and 

1 cupreous metal plate. 

In the Federal Register, page 910, 

paragraph number 6 is corrected by 

substituting the following paragraph: 

Officials of the Natchez Trace 

Parkway have determined, pursuant to 


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