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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. 

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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 

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disturbance. Mound 2 was about 35 

meters to the southeast of Mound 1. It 

contained an irregular rectangular 

limestone vault measuring 2.77 meters 

long on the north side, 2.83 meters long 

on the west side, and 3.11 meters long 

on the east side. The 0.88-meter-wide 

entrance was on the south side, 0.84 

meter from the west wall and 0.82 meter 

from the east wall. The vault was intact, 

but the presence of Euromerican debris 

indicated it had been looted at an 

unknown time in the past. Excavation of 

the Cogan Mounds was conducted in 

June and July of 1973 by staff and 

students from the Kansas 

Archaeological Field School, under the 

direction of Dr. Patricia J. O’Brien from 

Kansas State University. 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. 

Fragmentary human remains belonging 

to one female adult, two adults of 

indeterminate sex, one child and one 

six-month-old infant were removed 

from Mound 1. Some of the bones are 

burnt, suggesting that cremation had 

occurred. Fragmentary human remains 

belonging to an adult of indeterminate 

sex were removed from Mound 2. 

Several pieces of bone show green 

copper staining. Of the 39 associated 

funerary objects, 23 are historic. The 39 

associated funerary objects are eight 

metal nail fragments, one iron stake, one 

metal bridle ring, one bullet casing, two 

glass buttons, one ceramic fragment, 

nine glass and crockery fragments, one 

hematite stone, one projectile point, one 

lot consisting of stone debitage 

(approximately 83 pieces), one stone 

core, one fossil, one animal bone 

fragment, two gastropod shells, one 

ceramic sherd, three seeds, two charcoal 

samples, and two rocks. 

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: geographical and 

historical. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, Kansas State University 

has determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of 12 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The 56 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 Iowa Tribe of Kansas 

and Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; 

Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; OtoeMissouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma; 

Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; 

Ponca Tribe of Nebraska; Sac & Fox 

Nation of Missouri in Kansas and 

Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma; 

Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in 

Iowa; and The Osage Nation. 

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, 

Kansas State University 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. Kansas State 

University 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: September 25, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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Notice of the November 14, 15, and 16, 

2023, Meeting of the Advisory 

Committee on Reconciliation in Place 

Names 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Meeting notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act of 

1972, the National Park Service (NPS) is 

hereby giving notice that the Advisory 

Committee on Reconciliation in Place 

Names (Committee) will meet as noted 

below. 

DATES: The Committee will meet on 

Tuesday November 14, 2023, from 9:00 

a.m. until 4:00 p.m. (HAWAIIAN), 

Wednesday November 15, 2023, from 

9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. (HAWAIIAN), 

and Thursday November 16, 2023, from 

9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. (HAWAIIAN). 

Individuals that wish to participate 

must contact the person listed in the 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section no later than Tuesday November 

7, 2023, to receive instructions for 

accessing the meeting. 

ADDRESSES: The Committee will meet at 

the Campus Center Ballroom, University 

of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, 

96822. Electronic submissions of 

materials or requests are to be sent to 

reconciliation_committee@nps.gov. The 

meeting will also be accessible virtually 

via webinar and audio conference 

technology. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information concerning attending the 

Committee meeting in-person or 

virtually, submitting written comments 

to the Committee, or requesting to 

address the Committee, contact Andrea 

DeKoter, Committee Manager for the 

Advisory Committee on Reconciliation 

in Place Names, Office of Policy, 

National Park Service, at reconciliation_

committee@nps.gov or by telephone at 

(202) 354–2220. 

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. 


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