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by metes and bounds in the ‘‘Boundary 

Description for Halliday Fen Research 

Natural Area to be Withdrawn from Mineral 

Location’’ dated April 19, 2002, in the official 

records of the BLM Oregon/Washington State 

Office and the Colville National Forest 

Office, Colville, Washington: 

T. 39 N., R. 43 E., 

Sec. 1, lot 1. 

T. 40 N., R. 43 E., 

Sec. 36, E1⁄2SE1⁄4. 

T. 39 N., R. 44 E., 

Sec. 6, lots 2 thru 5, and SE1⁄4NW1⁄4. 

T. 40 N., R. 44 E., 

Sec. 30, SE1⁄4SW1⁄4, NW1⁄4SE1⁄4, and 

S1⁄2SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 31, lots 1 thru 4, NE1⁄4NE1⁄4, 

NE1⁄4NW1⁄4, NE1⁄4SE1⁄4, and S1⁄2SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 32, W1⁄2NW1⁄4 and NW1⁄4SW1⁄4. 

The areas described aggregate 646.37 acres. 

The use of a right-of-way, interagency 

agreement, or cooperative agreement 

would not adequately preserve the 

unique resources located at this site. 

There are no suitable alternative sites 

since preserving the unique resource 

within the lands described in PLO No. 

7614 is the reason for the application for 

withdrawal extension. 

Comments will be available for public 

review. 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 

personally identifying information— 

may be made publicly available at any 

time. While you may ask the BLM in 

your comment to withhold your 

personal identifying information from 

public review, we cannot guarantee that 

we will be able to do so. 

An opportunity for a public meeting 

may be afforded in connection with the 

application for withdrawal extension. 

All interested persons who desire a 

public meeting for the purpose of being 

heard on the application for this 

withdrawal extension must submit a 

written request to the State Director, 

BLM Oregon/Washington State Office at 

the address in the ADDRESSES section, 

within 90 days from the date of 

publication of this notice. If the 

authorized officer determines that a 

public meeting will be held, a notice of 

the date, time, and place will be 

published in the Federal Register and 

local newspapers and posted on the 

BLM website at: www.blm.gov at least 

30 days before the scheduled date of the 

meeting. This withdrawal extension 

application will be processed in 

accordance with the regulations set 

forth in 43 CFR 2310.4. 

(Authority: 43 U.S.C. 1714) 

Dustin Webster-Wharton, 

Branch Chief of Land, Mineral, and Energy 

Development, Bureau of Land Management, 

Oregon/Washington. 

[FR Doc. 2023–21496 Filed 9–28–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3411–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[OROR 016756] 

Public Land Order No. 7930; Extension 

of Public Land Order No. 6476 for 

Wheeler Creek Natural Area; Oregon 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Public Land Order. 

SUMMARY: This order extends the 

duration of the withdrawal created by 

Public Land Order (PLO) No. 6476, as 

extended by PLO No. 7572, for an 

additional 20-year period. PLO No. 6476 

withdrew 334 acres of National Forest 

System lands in the Rogue RiverSiskiyou National Forest from location 

and entry under the United States 

mining laws to protect the Wheeler 

Creek Research Natural Area (RNA). 

DATES: This PLO takes effect on October 

5, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Luke Poff, Realty Specialist, Bureau of 

Land Management Oregon/Washington 

State Office, P.O. Box 2965, Portland, 

OR 97208, (503) 808–6249, or by email 

at lpoff@blm.gov. The United States 

Forest Service, Rogue River-Siskiyou 

National Forest Supervisor’s Office can 

be reached at 3040 Biddle Road, 

Medford, Oregon 97504, (541) 618– 

2200. Individuals in the United States 

who are deaf, blind, 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. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

purpose of the withdrawal extended by 

this PLO is to maintain the protection of 

the Wheeler Creek RNA. PLO No. 6476 

(48 FR 45395 (1983)), as extended by 

PLO No. 7572 (68 FR 42127 (2003)), 

incorporated herein by reference, 

withdrew 334 acres of National Forest 

System lands from location and entry 

under the United States mining laws to 

protect the Wheeler Creek RNA in Curry 

County, Oregon, from any adverse 

impacts of such activities. The 

withdrawal extension is necessary to 

continue that protection. 

Order 

By virtue of the authority vested in 

the Secretary of the Interior by section 

204(f) of the Federal Land Policy and 

Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 

1714(f), it is ordered as follows: 

1. PLO No. 6476, as extended by PLO 

No. 7572 for an additional 20-year 

period, which withdrew 334 acres of 

National Forest System lands from 

location and entry under the United 

States mining laws to protect the 

Wheeler Creek Research Natural Area in 

support of Forest Service programs, is 

hereby extended, subject to valid 

existing rights, for an additional 20-year 

period. 

2. This withdrawal will expire 20 

years from the effective date of this 

order unless, as a result of a review 

conducted prior to the expiration date 

pursuant to Section 204(f) of the Federal 

Land Policy and Management Act, 43 

U.S.C. 1714(f), the Secretary determines 

that the withdrawal shall be further 

extended. 

(Authority: 43 U.S.C. 1714(f)) 

Robert T. Anderson, 

Solicitor. 

[FR Doc. 2023–21475 Filed 9–28–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3411–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[BLM_CO_FRN_MO#4500174052] 

Notice of Public Meeting of the Rocky 

Mountain Resource Advisory Council, 

Colorado 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of public meetings. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act of 1976 and the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act of 1972, the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM) Rocky 

Mountain Resource Advisory Council 

(RAC) is announcing its 2023 fall 

meeting. 

DATES: The Rocky Mountain RAC will 

meet in-person on November 9, 2023, 

from 9 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Mountain 

Time (MT). A virtual participation 

option will be available and the meeting 

is open to the public. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the BLM’s Royal Gorge Field Office, 

3028 East Main Street, Can ̃on City, CO 

81212. A virtual option will be offered 


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through the Zoom platform. Registration 

and participation will be available on 

the RAC’s web page 30 days in advance 

of the meeting at https://www.blm.gov/ 

get-involved/resource-advisory-council/ 

near-you/colorado/rocky-mountain-rac. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Levi 

Spellman, Public Affairs Specialist; 

BLM Rocky Mountain District Office, 

3028 E. Main St., Canon City, CO, 

81212; telephone: (719) 269–8553; 

email: lspellman@blm.gov. 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 for 

contacting the BLM. 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. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 15- 

member Rocky Mountain RAC advises 

the Secretary of the Interior, through the 

BLM, on a variety of public land issues 

in the Rocky Mountain District of 

Colorado, including the Royal Gorge 

Field Office, San Luis Valley Field 

Office, and Browns Canyon National 

Monument. Agenda topics include the 

selection of a RAC chairperson and a 

vote on a proposal to increase recreation 

fees for sites managed by the Royal 

Gorge Field Office. 

A public comment period is 

scheduled for 11:05 a.m. MT. 

Depending on the number of persons 

wishing to speak and the time available, 

the amount of time for oral comments 

may be limited. Written comments for 

the RAC may be sent electronically in 

advance of the scheduled meeting to the 

contact listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

notice. Please include ‘‘RAC Comment’’ 

in your submission. All comments 

received will be provided to the RAC. 

Please make requests in advance for sign 

language interpreter services, assistive 

listening devices, or other reasonable 

accommodations. We ask that you 

contact the person listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 

this notice at least seven (7) business 

days prior to the meeting to give the 

Department of the Interior sufficient 

time to process your request. All 

reasonable accommodation requests are 

managed on a case-by-case basis. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, please be aware that your 

entire comment—including your 

personally identifying information— 

may be made publicly available at any 

time. While individuals may request 

their personally identifying information 

to be withheld from public view, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Detailed minutes for the RAC 

meetings will be maintained in the 

Rocky Mountain District Office and will 

be available for public inspection and 

reproduction during regular business 

hours within 90 days following the 

meeting. Previous minutes and agendas 

are also available on the RAC’s web 

page listed in the ADDRESSES section of 

this notice. 

Authority: 43 CFR 1784.4–2. 

Douglas J. Vilsack, 

BLM Colorado State Director. 

[FR Doc. 2023–21437 Filed 9–28–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4311–16–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036673; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Kansas State University, Manhattan, 

KS 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Kansas 

State University has completed an 

inventory of human remains and 

associated funerary objects and has 

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 Platte County, MO. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

October 30, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Megan Williamson, 

Department of Sociology, Anthropology, 

and Social Work, Kansas State 

University, 204 Waters Hall, 1603 Old 

Claflin Place, Manhattan, KS 66506– 

4003, telephone (785) 532–6005, email 

mwillia1@ksu.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 Kansas State 

University. 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 Kansas State University. 

Description. 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, six individuals were 

removed from the Cochran Mound, 

23PL86, in Platte County, KS. The 

Cochran Mound is a burial mound on 

private land. It occupies a portion of the 

highest point of the left (east) bluff of 

the Missouri River, just upstream from 

the confluence of Brush Creek with the 

river. The mound measures 102 feet 

long (north-south) by 86 feet wide (eastwest), and it contains a stone vault 

measuring 8.75 feet square. Excavation 

of the Cochran Mound was conducted 

in June of 1971 by staff and students of 

the Kansas Archaeological Field School, 

under the direction of Dr. Patricia J. 

O’Brien of Kansas State University. 

Excavation showed that it had been 

severely looted by an unknown person 

or persons at an unknown time in the 

past. Collections were processed and 

cataloged by field school students and 

then removed to the archeology 

laboratory at Kansas State University for 

analysis, reporting, and curation. They 

have remained in the university’s 

possession since that time. The human 

remains are commingled and are highly 

fragmented. Some of the bones were 

burnt, suggesting that cremation had 

occurred. As some of the artifacts also 

show heat fractures, they may have been 

with the bodies at the time of cremation. 

The human remains belong to four 

adults, one juvenile, and one infant. 

One of the adults is female and another 

adult was at least 45 years of age or 

older at the time of death. The 17 

associated funerary objects are one 

projectile point, four biface fragments, 

one retouched flake, five bullets 

(historic), one hematite stone, one shell 

bead, one lot consisting of gastropod 

shells, two charcoal samples, and one 

lot consisting of stone debitage 

(approximately 38 pieces). 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, six individuals were 

removed from the Cogan Mounds, 

23PL125, in Platte County, MO. The 

Cogan Mounds are comprised of two 

burial mounds on private land. Mound 

1 measures about five meters in 

diameter and was made of various sized 

limestone slabs mixed with dirt. It 

contained the remains of a disturbed 

limestone vault measuring 1.78 meters 

long on the north side and 2.20 meters 

on the west side (the east and south 

sides were sufficiently damaged as to 

preclude measurement). No entrance 

was found. The presence of 

Euromerican debris indicated prior 


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