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representatives; two cultural and 

heritage interest representatives; two 

members of the public-at-large; a Tribal 

interests representative; a local 

government representative; an 

education and interpretation interests 

representative; and a private landowner 

representative. 

Utah 

Bears Ears National Monument 

Advisory Committee (Bears Ears MAC) 

Rachel Wootton, BLM Monticello 

Field Office, 365 North Main, 

Monticello, UT 84535; Phone: (385) 

235–4364; Email: rwootton@blm.gov. 

The Bears Ears MAC includes 15 

members. Thirteen members will serve 

as representatives of commodity, noncommodity, and local area interests, 

including an elected official from San 

Juan County; a representative of state 

government; a representative from the 

conservation community; a 

representative of livestock grazing 

permittees; three representatives 

representing Tribal interests; a 

representative of developed outdoor 

recreation activities; a representative of 

developed outdoor recreation, offhighway vehicle users, or commercial 

recreation activities; a representative of 

dispersed recreation activities; a private 

landowner; a local business owner; and 

two representatives of the public-atlarge. Two members will serve as SGEs 

for the following areas of expertise: 

paleontology and archaeology/history. 

Grand Staircase-Escalante National 

Monument Advisory Committee (Grand 

Staircase-Escalante MAC) 

David Hercher, BLM Paria River 

District Office, 669 South Highway 89A, 

Kanab, UT 84741; Phone: (435) 899– 

0415; Email: dhercher@blm.gov. 

The Grand Staircase-Escalante MAC 

includes 15 members. Nine members 

will serve as representatives of 

commodity, non-commodity, and local 

area interests, including elected officials 

from Garfield and Kane County; a 

representative of State government; a 

representative of Tribal government 

with ancestral interest in the 

Monument; an educator; a 

conservationist; an outfitter and guide 

operating within the Monument, to 

represent commercial recreation 

activities in the Monument; a livestock 

grazing permittee operating within the 

Monument; and a representative of 

dispersed recreation. Six members will 

serve as SGEs for each of the following 

areas of expertise: paleontology; 

archaeology; geology; botany or wildlife 

biology; history or social science; and 

systems ecology. 

San Rafael Swell Recreation Area 

Advisory Council 

Angela Hawkins, BLM Green River 

District Office, 170 South 500 East 

Vernal, UT 84078; Phone: (435) 781– 

2774; Email: ahawkins@blm.gov. 

The Council consists of seven 

members that represent the Emery 

County Commission; motorized 

recreational users; non-motorized 

recreational users; a grazing allotment 

permittee within the Recreation Area or 

wilderness areas designated; 

conservation organizations; a member 

with expertise in the historical uses of 

the Recreation Area; and an elected 

leader of a federally recognized Tribe 

that has significant cultural or historic 

connections to, and expertise in, the 

landscape, archeological sites, or 

cultural sites within the County. 

(Authority: 43 CFR 1784.4–1) 

Jeffrey Krauss, 

Assistant Director for Communications. 

[FR Doc. 2023–23536 Filed 10–24–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[BLM_NM_FRN_MO4500175396] 

Public Land Order No. 7933; 

Correction and Extension of Public 

Land Order No. 7587 for Langmuir 

Principal Research Site; New Mexico 

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. 7587, 

which withdrew 852 acres of National 

Forest System lands from location and 

entry under the United States mining 

laws, subject to valid existing rights, for 

an additional 20-year period. The 

purpose of this withdrawal is to protect 

the United States Forest Servicemanaged Langmuir Principal Research 

Site to study thundercloud mechanisms, 

lightning, and precipitation, for an 

additional 20 years. This order also 

corrects the legal description of, but 

does not change, the lands withdrawn. 

DATES: This PLO takes effect on October 

25, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carol Harris, Bureau of Land 

Management Socorro Field Office, 

Realty Specialist by phone at (575) 838– 

1298 or by email at caharris@blm.gov or 

Richard Wilhelm by phone at (505) 346– 

3842 or by email at richard.wilhelm@

usda.gov. Individuals in the United 

States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of 

hearing or have a speech disability may 

dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or Tele Braille) 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 

withdrawal extension is needed in order 

to maintain the protection of the 

Langmuir Principal Research Site, as 

originally authorized under PLO No. 

7587 (68 FR 61231 (October 27, 2003)), 

and incorporated herein by reference, 

which withdrew 852-acres of National 

Forest System lands from location and 

entry under the United States mining 

laws to protect the Langmuir Principal 

Research Site on the Magdalena Ranger 

District of the Cibola National Forest 

from any adverse impacts of such 

activities. This PLO also serves to 

correct errors in the original legal land 

description described in PLO No. 7587 

(68 FR 61231 (October 27, 2003)). 

Correction of the legal land description 

does not change the actual footprint of 

the withdrawal; correcting the 

description would bring it into 

conformance with the 2017 Bureau of 

Land Management Specifications for 

Descriptions of Land. The description 

for PLO No. 7587 also identifies the area 

of lands withdrawn as 852 acres. 

Government Land Office (GLO) surveys 

have identified the acreages for these 

lands and are the source for official 

acreage determinations. The GLO 

records indicate the exact acreage 

described contains 851.72 acres; 

therefore, the acres for this PLO have 

been updated to reflect accurate acreage 

for this withdrawal. 

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. Subject to valid existing rights, PLO 

No. 7587 (68 FR 61231 (2003)), which 

withdrew 852 acres of National Forest 

System lands from location and entry 

under the United States mining laws to 

protect the Langmuir Principal Research 

Site, is hereby extended for an 

additional 20-year period and the legal 

description and acres are corrected to 

read as follows: 

New Mexico Principal Meridian, New 

Mexico 

T. 4 S., R. 3 W., 

Sec. 5 Lot 2 and W1⁄2SW1⁄4; 


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Sec. 6, Lots 5 and 6, SE1⁄4NW1⁄4, E1⁄2SW1⁄4, 

and SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 7, NE1⁄4, E1⁄2NW1⁄4 and N1⁄2SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 8, W1⁄2NW1⁄4 and NW1⁄4SW1⁄4. 

The area described contains 851.72 acres. 

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)) 

Shannon A. Estenoz, 

Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and 

Parks. 

[FR Doc. 2023–23629 Filed 10–24–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036806; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Washington State University, Museum 

of Anthropology, Pullman, WA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

Museum of Anthropology at 

Washington State University (WSU 

Museum of Anthropology) 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 Asotin County, WA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

November 24, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Andrew Duff, Acting 

Director, Museum of Anthropology at 

Washington State University, Pullman, 

WA 99164–4910, telephone (509) 335– 

3871, email duff@wsu.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 Museum of 

Anthropology at Washington 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 the Museum of 

Anthropology at Washington State 

University. 

Description 

In 1964, human remains representing, 

at minimum, three individuals were 

removed from Ten Mile Creek (45AS26), 

in Asotin County, WA. The site, which 

had cairn markers visible on its surface, 

had been heavily disturbed by looters. 

The occurrence of stone cairns, the 

flexed body position, and the types of 

associated funerary objects suggest that 

these burials date to the Late Prehistoric 

Period of about 2000–300 years ago. 

The burial site is part of the Ten Mile 

Creek site complex, which includes 

large and small open camp sites, a series 

of storage pits, a rock shelter, and a fish 

wall. Ethnographic, oral traditions, and 

historic evidence associates this 

location with ‘enetoyn, a Nez Perce 

village. Excavations were led by WSU 

archeologists Charles Nelson and David 

Rice during the 1964 Asotin Reservoir 

Dam Survey under contract with the US 

Army Corps of Engineers, who hired 

WSU to conduct the survey after 

Congress authorized construction of the 

Asotin Dam Reservoir (Nelson and Rice 

1969). While dam construction was later 

de-authorized and further work was 

discontinued, the WSU Museum of 

Anthropology has housed Asotin Dam 

Reservoir Survey collections, including 

those from 45AS26. 

Three separate burials, numbered 1, 2, 

and 3, marked with surface and 

subsurface stone cairns, were excavated. 

Each burial contained a single 

individual placed in a flexed position. 

Burial 1 contained the human remains 

of an individual about 15 years old 

whose sex could not be determined. Red 

ochre as well as dentalia shell beads, a 

mussel shell pendant fragment, and a 

piece of muscovite mica, were found 

near the individual’s head. A heavily 

fragmented cedar wood stake was also 

associated with Burial 1. Burial 2 

contained the human remains of a child 

aged 6–8 years old whose sex could not 

be determined. The grave was marked 

by surface and sub-surface stone cairns. 

The body was in a fully flexed position 

and there were no associated funerary 

items. Burial 3 contained the human 

remains of a child 6–8 years old whose 

sex could not be determined. The grave 

was marked by a surface cairn 

containing flecks of charcoal and 

dentalia shell beads, including one 

incised bead. The body was placed in a 

flexed position. No known individuals 

were identified. The eight associated 

funerary objects include three lots 

consisting of dentalia shell beads, one 

incised dentalia shell bead, one mussel 

shell pendant fragment, one lot 

consisting of muscovite mica fragments, 

one lot consisting of cedar stake 

fragments, and one lot consisting of 

charcoal 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, which includes the Nez 

Perce Tribe and the Nez Perce Band of 

the Confederated Tribes of the Colville 

Reservation. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: anthropological, 

archeological, geographical, historical, 

and oral traditional. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the Museum of 

Anthropology at Washington State 

University has determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of three individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The eight 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 Confederated Tribes 

of the Colville Reservation and the Nez 

Perce Tribe. 

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 


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