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###### Department of the Interior

###### National Park Service

          - [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036650; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]

# AGENCY:

National Park Service, Interior.

# ACTION:

Notice.

# SUMMARY:

In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of California, Riverside (UCR) 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 Riverside, CA.

# DATES:

Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice may occur on or after October 30, 2023.

# ADDRESSES:

                        Megan Murphy, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92517-5900, telephone (951) 827-6349, email                         *megan.murphy@ucr.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 California, Riverside. The National Park                           ( print page 66890)                        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 California, Riverside.                

## Description

                    In 1970, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed from CA-RIV-381, the Marana Site, near Vail Lake, in Riverside, CA. The human remains were removed during a field class led by Robert Bettinger. No reports on the site have been published, though it is referenced in a few publications. In UCR-ARU Report #292, archeologist Richard Lando describes CA-RIV-381 as “an important, extensive permanent village site on Temecula Creek with a large range of artifacts present including petroglyphs, pictographs, manos, metates, mortars, pestles, pottery, bone awls, beads, and chipped stones artifacts” and as culturally Luiseño. In a paper authored by Bettinger and R.E. Taylor, “                    *Suggested Revisions in Archaeological Sequences of the Great Basin in Interior Southern California,”*                     a radiocarbon date of A.D. 1450 was reportedly obtained from the Marana Site. The 14 associated funerary objects are one lot consisting of unmodified animal bones, one lot consisting of ceramics (indigenous and post-contact), one lot consisting of clay, one lot consisting of glass, one lot consisting of lithic flakes and tools, one lot consisting of metal, one lot consisting of plastic, one lot consisting of modified shells, one lot consisting of charcoal, one lot consisting of organic materials, one lot consisting of mineralogical objects, one lot consisting of unmodified shells, one lot consisting of fire-altered rocks, and one lot consisting of pipe fragments.                

## 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, geographical, historical, oral traditional, and expert tribal opinion.

## Determinations

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations, the University of California, Riverside has determined that:
    - The human remains described in this notice represent the physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
    - The 14 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 traced between the human remains and associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Pechanga Band of Indians ( Previously                      listed as Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the Pechanga Reservation, 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 30, 2023. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the University of California, Riverside 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. The University of California, Riverside is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribe 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 20, 2023.

Melanie O'Brien,

Manager, National NAGPRA Program.

[FR Doc. 2023-21248 Filed 9-27-23; 8:45 am]

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