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Aboriginal Land 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects in this notice were 

removed from known geographic 

locations. These locations are the 

aboriginal lands of one or more Indian 

Tribes. The following information was 

used to identify the aboriginal land: 

treaties, Acts of Congress, and Executive 

Orders. 

The Witte Museum consulted with all 

Indian Tribes who are aboriginal to the 

area from which these human remains 

and associated funerary objects were 

removed. None of these Indian Tribes 

agreed to accept control of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects. 

The Witte Museum requested that the 

Secretary, through the Native American 

Graves Protection and Repatriation 

Review Committee (Review Committee), 

consider a proposal for the re-interment 

according to State or other law of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects in this notice. The Review 

Committee carefully considered the 

request at its June 2023 meeting and 

recommended to the Secretary that the 

proposed re-interment proceed. A July 

2023 letter transmitted the Secretary’s 

independent review and concurrence 

with the Review Committee that: 

• the Witte Museum consulted with 

the appropriate Indian Tribes, 

• none of the Indian Tribes agreed to 

accept control, 

• none of the Indian Tribes objected 

to the proposed re-interment, and 

• the Witte Museum may proceed 

with the proposed re-interment of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects as identified in the 

Determinations section. 

Re-interment is contingent on the 

publication of a Notice of Inventory 

Completion in the Federal Register. 

This notice fulfills that requirement. 

Determinations Made by the Witte 

Museum 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the Indian Tribes 

identified in this notice, the Witte 

Museum has determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice are Native American based 

on their precontact, Archaic period date. 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of 32 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The one object described in this 

notice is 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. 

• No relationship of shared group 

identity can be reasonably traced 

between the Native American human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

and any Indian Tribe or Native 

Hawaiian organization. 

• The human remains and associated 

funerary objects described in this notice 

were removed from the aboriginal land 

of the Comanche Nation, Oklahoma; 

Mescalero Apache Tribe of the 

Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico; 

and the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes 

(Wichita, Keechi, Waco, & Tawakonie), 

Oklahoma. 

• The human remains and associated 

funerary objects will be re-interred 

according to the law of Val Verde 

County, TX. 

Requests for Disposition 

Written requests for disposition of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects in this notice must be sent to the 

Responsible Official identified in 

ADDRESSES. Requests for disposition 

may be submitted by: 

1. Any one or more of the Indian 

Tribes 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 

a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization, or who 

shows that the requestor is an aboriginal 

land Indian Tribe. 

Re-interment of the human remains 

and associated funerary objects 

described in this notice may occur on or 

after October 12, 2023. If requests for 

disposition are received, the Witte 

Museum must determine the most 

appropriate requestor prior to 

disposition or re-interment. Requests for 

joint disposition of the human remains 

and associated funerary objects are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The Witte Museum 

is responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes identified in 

this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.9 and § 10.11. 

Dated: August 30, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036531; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Missouri Department of Natural 

Resources, Jefferson City, MO 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

Missouri Department of Natural 

Resources (MoDNR) has completed an 

inventory of human remains and has 

determined that there is a cultural 

affiliation between the human remains 

and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations in this notice. The human 

remains were removed from McDonald 

County, MO. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains in this notice may occur on or 

after October 12, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Caroline Crecelius, 

Repatriation Coordinator, Missouri 

Department of Natural Resources, 

Division of State Parks, 1659 E Elm 

Street, Jefferson City, MO 65101, 

telephone (573) 526–4249, email 

Caroline.Crecelius@dnr.mo.gov. 

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 MoDNR. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Additional information on the 

determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in the inventory or related records held 

by MoDNR. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, one individual were removed 

from McDonald County, MO. These 

human remains (a partial, fragmented 

skull) were removed from private 

property by Lieutenant Andy Pike of the 

Newton County Sheriff’s Office, who in 

turn transferred them to Detective 

Pierson at the McDonald County 

Sheriff’s Office. Following a 

determination that they were not part of 

an active criminal case, Detective 

Pierson transferred the human remains 

to the Missouri State Historic 

Preservation Office. Based on the 

opinion of a regional archeologist, the 

human remains date to the Late 

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before the present). No associated 

funerary objects are present. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: archeological, 

geographical, historical, linguistic, and 

oral traditional. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, MoDNR has determined 

that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of one individual of Native 

American ancestry. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the human remains 

described in this notice and the Caddo 

Nation of Oklahoma and The Osage 

Nation. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains in this notice must be 

sent to the Responsible Official 

identified in 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 

a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization. 

Repatriation of the human remains in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after October 12, 2023. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

MoDNR 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. MoDNR is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes identified in 

this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, § 10.10, and 

§ 10.14. 

Dated: August 30, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 

and Enforcement 

[S1D1S SS08011000 SX064A000 

231S180110; S2D2S SS08011000 

SX064A000 23XS501520; OMB Control 

Number 1029–0054] 

Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Abandoned Mine 

Reclamation Funds 

AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining 

Reclamation and Enforcement, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we, 

the Office of Surface Mining 

Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE), 

are proposing to renew an information 

collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

November 13, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Send your comments on 

this information collection request (ICR) 

by mail to Mark Gehlhar, Office of 

Surface Mining Reclamation and 

Enforcement, 1849 C Street NW, Room 

4556–MIB, Washington, DC 20240, or by 

email to mgehlhar@osmre.gov. Please 

reference OMB Control Number 1029– 

0054 in the subject line of your 

comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information about 

this ICR, contact Mark Gehlhar by email 

at mgehlhar@osmre.gov, or by telephone 

at 202–208–2716. Individuals in the 

United States who are deaf, deafblind, 

hard of hearing, or have a speech 

disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or 

TeleBraille) to access 

telecommunications relay services. 

Individuals outside the United States 

should use the relay services offered 

within their country to make 

international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States. You may 

also view the ICR at http://

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 

et seq.) and 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), we 

provide the general public and other 

Federal agencies with an opportunity to 

comment on new, proposed, revised, 

and continuing collections of 

information. This helps us assess the 

impact of our information collection 

requirements and minimize the public’s 

reporting burden. It also helps the 

public understand our information 

collection requirements and provide the 

requested data in the desired format. 

We are soliciting comments on the 

proposed ICR that is described below. 

We are especially interested in public 

comment addressing the following 

issues: (1) is the collection necessary to 

the proper functions of the agency; (2) 

will this information be processed and 

used in a timely manner; (3) is the 

estimate of burden accurate; (4) how 

might the agency enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (5) how might the 

agency minimize the burden of this 

collection on the respondents, including 

through the use of information 

technology. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. We will include or 

summarize each comment in our request 

to OMB to approve this ICR. Before 

including your address, phone number, 

email address, or other personal 

identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Abstract: 30 CFR part 872 establishes 

a procedure whereby States and Indian 

tribes submit written statements 

announcing the State/Tribe’s decision 

not to submit reclamation plans, and 

therefore, will not be granted AML 

funds. Additional information is 

provided to OSMRE by state 

reclamation agencies to determine 

eligibility of economic development 

projects requesting Treasury Funds 

allocated to the Economic Revitalization 

(AMLER) Program. 

Title of Collection: Abandoned Mine 

Reclamation Funds. 

OMB Control Number: 1029–0054. 

Form Number: None. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: States 

and Indian Tribes. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Respondents: 6. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 101. 


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