Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 47 / Thursday, March 11, 2010 / Notices 11555 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Department of the Interior, National 

Park Service, Great Sand Dunes 

National Park and Preserve, Mosca, CO 

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. 3003, of the 

completion of an inventory of human 

remains in the possession and control of 

the U.S. Department of the Interior, 

National Park Service, Great Sand 

Dunes National Park and Preserve, 

Mosca, CO. The human remains were 

removed from an unspecified site in 

Alamosa County, CO. 

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, Great Sand Dunes 

National Park and Preserve. 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains was made by Great Sand Dunes 

National Park and Preserve professional 

staff in consultation with 

representatives of the Jicarilla Apache 

Nation, New Mexico; Navajo Nation, 

Arizona, New Mexico & Utah; Ohkay 

Owingeh, New Mexico (formerly the 

Pueblo of San Juan); Pueblo of San 

Ildefonso, New Mexico; Southern Ute 

Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute 

Reservation, Colorado; Ute Indian Tribe 

of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, 

Utah; Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute 

Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New 

Mexico & Utah; and Zuni Tribe of the 

Zuni Reservation, New Mexico. The 

Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo 

of Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo of 

Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa 

Clara, New Mexico; and Pueblo of Taos, 

New Mexico were contacted for 

consultation purposes but did not 

attend the consultation meetings. 

Between 1966 and 1968, human 

remains representing a minimum of 

three individuals were removed by 

George Owen Doty, a local resident, 

from an unspecified site south of Great 

Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve 

in Alamosa County, CO. After Doty’s 

death in the 1980s, the human remains 

were found among his effects by his 

niece and were turned over to Great 

Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve 

in 2002. No known individuals were 

identified. No associated funerary 

objects are present. 

A nondestructive osteological analysis 

by forensic anthropologists in Fort 

Collins, CO, and the fact that Doty had 

been an avid collector of American 

Indian artifacts indicate that the human 

remains are likely prehistoric Native 

American. 

Officials of Great Sand Dunes 

National Park and Preserve have 

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

3001 (9–10), the human remains 

described above represent the physical 

remains of three individuals of Native 

American ancestry. Lastly, officials of 

Great Sand Dunes National Park and 

Preserve have determined that, pursuant 

to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), a relationship of 

shared group identity cannot reasonably 

be traced between the Native American 

human remains and any present-day 

Indian tribe. 

The Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Review 

Committee (Review Committee) is 

responsible for recommending specific 

actions for disposition of culturally 

unidentifiable human remains. In 

February 2009, Great Sand Dunes 

National Park and Preserve requested 

that the Review Committee recommend 

disposition of the three culturally 

unidentifiable human remains to the 

Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain 

Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & 

Utah because the human remains were 

found within the tribe’s aboriginal and 

historical territory. The Review 

Committee considered the proposal at 

its May 23–24, 2009, meeting and 

recommended disposition of the human 

remains to the Ute Mountain Tribe of 

the Ute Mountain Reservation, 

Colorado, New Mexico & Utah. 

A September 16, 2009, letter from the 

Designated Federal Official, writing on 

behalf of the Secretary of the Interior, 

transmitted the authorization for the 

park to effect disposition of the physical 

remains of the culturally unidentifiable 

individuals to the Ute Mountain Tribe 

of the Ute Mountain Reservation, 

Colorado, New Mexico & Utah 

contingent on the publication of a 

Notice of Inventory Completion in the 

Federal Register. This notice fulfills 

that requirement. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains 

should contact Art Hutchinson, 

superintendent, Great Sand Dunes 

National Park and Preserve, 11500 

Highway 150, Mosca, CO 81146, 

telephone (719) 378–6311, before April 

12, 2010. Disposition of the human 

remains to the Ute Mountain Tribe of 

the Ute Mountain Reservation, 

Colorado, New Mexico & Utah may 

proceed after that date if no additional 

claimants come forward. 

Great Sand Dunes National Park and 

Preserve is responsible for notifying the 

Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico; 

Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & 

Utah; Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico 

(formerly the Pueblo of San Juan); 

Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo 

of Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo of 

Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of San 

Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa 

Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, 

New Mexico; Southern Ute Indian Tribe 

of the Southern Ute Reservation, 

Colorado; Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah 

& Ouray Reservation, Utah; Ute 

Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain 

Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & 

Utah; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 

Reservation, New Mexico that this 

notice has been published. 

Dated: February 18, 2010 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2010–5169 Filed 3–10–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–50–S 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLCAN00000.L18200000.XZ0000] 

Notice of Public Meeting: Northeast 

California Resource Advisory Council 

and Subcommittee 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act of 1976 (FLPMA), and the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act of 1972 

(FACA), the U.S. Department of the 

Interior, Bureau of Land Management 

(BLM) Northeast California Resource 

Advisory Council and its Sage Steppe 

Ecosystem Subcommittee will meet as 

indicated below. 

DATES: The RAC Sage Steppe Ecosytem 

Subcommittee will meet Friday, May 7, 

2010, at 9 a.m. at the BLM Alturas Field 

Office, 708 W. 12th St., Alturas, 

California. The full RAC will meet 

Wednesday and Thursday, June 2 and 3, 

2010, at the BLM Alturas Field Office. 

On June 2, the meeting begins at 10 a.m. 

and includes a field trip to lands 

managed by the BLM Alturas Field 

Office. On June 3, the meeting begins at 

8 a.m. and adjourns about 3 p.m. Time 

for public comments has been reserved 

for 11 a.m. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nancy Haug, BLM Northern California 


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