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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. 

Disposition of the human remains 

described in this notice to a requestor 

may occur on or after October 19, 2023. 

If competing requests for disposition are 

received, the University of Nevada, Las 

Vegas must determine the most 

appropriate requestor prior to 

disposition. Requests for joint 

disposition of the human remains are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The University of 

Nevada, Las Vegas 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: September 11, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–20198 Filed 9–18–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036573; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

University of California, Davis, Davis, 

CA, and University of California, 

Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

University of California, Davis (UC 

Davis) and the University of California, 

Berkeley (UC Berkeley) have completed 

an inventory of human remains and 

associated funerary objects and have 

determined that there is a cultural 

affiliation between the human remains 

and associated funerary objects and 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations in this notice. The human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

were removed from Solano County, CA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

October 19, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Megon Noble, NAGPRA 

Project Manager, University of 

California, Davis, 412 Mrak Hall, One 

Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, 

telephone (530) 752–8501, email 

mnoble@ucdavis.edu and Alex Lucas, 

University of California, Berkeley, 

Office of Government and Community 

Relations, 200 California Hall, Berkeley, 

CA 94720, telephone (510) 570–0964, 

email nagpra-ucb@berkeley.edu. 

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 UC Davis and UC 

Berkeley. 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 UC Davis and UC 

Berkeley. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, 107 individuals were 

removed from Solano County, CA. In 

1965, CA–SOL–11 (UC Davis Accession 

16) was excavated by Walt Brown and 

Jay Ruby as a part of two UC Davis Field 

Schools. The 3,263 associated funerary 

objects are comprised of 3,219 objects 

that can be located in the collections 

and 44 objects that cannot be located at 

this time. The 3,219 locatable associated 

funerary objects are 50 lots consisting of 

worked shells (including beads and 

pendants); 27 lots consisting of worked 

bones (awls, pendants, and other 

worked bones); 19 lots consisting of 

worked stone (pendants, beads, and 

other worked stone); 25 projectile 

points; 167 lots consisting of 

groundstones; 1,602 lots consisting of 

stone debitage; 128 lots consisting of 

chipped stones (bifaces, scrapers, cores, 

and flake tools); 17 lots consisting of 

fired clay/ceramics; 643 lots consisting 

of unmodified animal bones; 446 lots 

consisting of unmodified shells; 25 lots 

consisting of charcoal; four lots 

consisting of plant materials (seeds, 

nuts, acorn caps); 18 lots consisting of 

ochre; 26 lots consisting of ash; two lots 

consisting of miscellaneous minerals; 

and 20 lots consisting of unmodified 

stones. The 44 currently missing 

associated funerary objects are one lot 

consisting of worked shells; two lots 

consisting of worked bones; two 

projectile points; two lots consisting of 

groundstones; 11 lots consisting of stone 

debitage; seven lots consisting of 

chipped stones; two lots consisting of 

miscellaneous pieces of fired clay; six 

lots consisting of unmodified animal 

bones; one lot consisting of unmodified 

shells; two lots consisting of charcoal; 

one lot consisting of unmodified stones; 

and seven lots consisting of unknown 

materials. 

During May–June of 1946, University 

of California, Berkeley student William 

Clifford Massey removed three 

associated funerary objects from CA– 

SOL–11, which were subsequently 

appropriated by the University and 

accessioned into the Phoebe A. Hearst 

Museum of Anthropology collection. 

The three associated funerary objects are 

a stone point, one lot of stone flakes, 

and one lot of shells. 

On October 1, 1949, as part of the 

California Archaeological Survey, 

University of California, Berkeley 

student Arnold R. Pilling removed three 

associated funerary items from CA– 

SOL–11, which were subsequently 

appropriated by the University and 

accessioned into the Phoebe A. Hearst 

Museum of Anthropology. The three 

associated funerary objects are a scraper, 

a blade, and a mortar. 

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: anthropological, 

archeological, biological, 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, UC Davis and UC 

Berkeley have determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of 107 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The 3,269 objects described in this 

notice 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. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 


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traced between the human remains and 

associated funerary objects described in 

this notice and the Cachil DeHe Band of 

Wintun Indians of the Colusa Indian 

Community of the Colusa Rancheria, 

California; Kletsel Dehe Wintun of the 

Cortina Rancheria (Previously listed as 

Kletsel Dehe Band of Wintun Indians); 

and the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, 

California. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects 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 

and associated funerary objects in this 

notice to a requestor may occur on or 

after October 19, 2023. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

UC Davis and UC Berkeley 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. UC Davis and UC 

Berkeley are 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: September 11, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–20189 Filed 9–18–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036576; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las 

Vegas, NV 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

University of Nevada, Las Vegas has 

completed an inventory of human 

remains and has determined that there 

is no cultural affiliation between the 

human remains and any Indian Tribe. 

The human remains were removed from 

Washoe County, NV. 

DATES: Disposition of the human 

remains in this notice may occur on or 

after October 19, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Dr. Daniel Benyshek, 

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 S 

Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 

89154, telephone (702) 895–2070, email 

Daniel.Benyshek@unlv.edu. 

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 University of 

Nevada, Las Vegas. 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 the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, 22 individuals were removed 

from the Falcon Hill Site in Washoe 

County, NV (Accession #s AHUR 39, 

AHUR 40, AHUR 41, AHUR 42, AHUR 

43, AHUR 44, AHUR 45, AHUR 46, 

AHUR 47, AHUR 48, AHUR 49, AHUR 

50, AHUR 51, AHUR 52, AHUR 53, 

AHUR 54, AHUR 55, AHUR 56, AHUR 

57, and AHUR 58). No associated 

funerary objects are present. 

Aboriginal Land 

The human remains in this notice 

were removed from a known geographic 

location. This location is the aboriginal 

land of one or more Indian Tribes. The 

following information was used to 

identify the aboriginal land: a final 

judgment of the Indian Claims 

Commission. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes, the University of Nevada, 

Las Vegas has determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of 22 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• No relationship of shared group 

identity can be reasonably traced 

between the human remains and 

associated funerary objects and any 

Indian Tribe. 

• The human remains described in 

this notice were removed from the 

aboriginal land of the Confederated 

Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation 

of Oregon; Fort McDermitt Paiute and 

Shoshone Tribes of the Fort McDermitt 

Indian Reservation, Nevada and Oregon; 

Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon 

Reservation and Colony, Nevada; 

Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of the 

Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada; 

Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, Nevada; 

Walker River Paiute Tribe of the Walker 

River Reservation, Nevada; Washoe 

Tribe of Nevada & California (Carson 

Colony, Dresslerville Colony, 

Woodfords Community, Stewart 

Community, & Washoe Ranches); and 

the Yerington Paiute Tribe of the 

Yerington Colony & Campbell Ranch, 

Nevada. 

Requests for Disposition 

Written requests for disposition of the 

human remains 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. 

Disposition of the human remains 

described in this notice to a requestor 

may occur on or after October 19, 2023. 

If competing requests for disposition are 

received, the University of Nevada, Las 

Vegas must determine the most 

appropriate requestor prior to 

disposition. Requests for joint 

disposition of the human remains are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The University of 

Nevada, Las Vegas 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: September 11, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–20193 Filed 9–18–23; 8:45 am] 

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