Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 214 / Tuesday, November 7, 2023 / Notices 76851 

Section 47 of the Internal Revenue 

Code requires that the Secretary of the 

Interior certify to the Secretary of the 

Treasury upon application by owners of 

historic properties for Federal tax 

benefits: (a) the historic significance of 

the property and (b) that the 

rehabilitation work is consistent with its 

historic character. The NPS administers 

the program with the Internal Revenue 

Service in partnership with the State 

Historic Preservation Offices (SHPOs). 

The NPS uses the information collected 

in the Historic Preservation Certification 

Application (Forms 10–168, 10–168a, 

10–168b, and 10–168c) to evaluate the 

condition and historic significance of 

buildings undergoing rehabilitation and 

to evaluate whether or not the 

rehabilitation work meets the Secretary 

of the Interior’s Standards for 

Rehabilitation. 

Regulations codified in 36 CFR part 

67 contain a requirement for completion 

of an application form. The NPS uses 

the information collected on the 

application form to allow the authorized 

officer to determine if the project is 

qualified to obtain historic preservation 

certifications from the Secretary of the 

Interior. These certifications are 

necessary for an applicant to receive 

substantial federal tax incentives 

authorized by Section 47 of the Internal 

Revenue Code. These incentives include 

a 20% federal income tax credit for the 

rehabilitation of income-producing 

historic buildings and an income tax 

deduction for the charitable donation of 

easements on historic properties. The 

Internal Revenue Code also provides a 

10% federal income tax credit for the 

rehabilitation of non-historic, 

nonresidential buildings built before 

1936. An owner of a non-historic 

building in a historic district must also 

use the application to obtain a 

certification from the Secretary of the 

Interior that his or her building does not 

contribute to the significance of the 

historic district before claiming this 

lesser tax credit for rehabilitation. The 

10% credit was repealed as part of the 

2017 tax reform legislation but remains 

in effect under certain transition rules. 

SHPOs are the first point of contact 

for property owners wishing to use the 

rehabilitation tax credits. They help 

applicants determine if a historic 

building is eligible for Federal or State 

historic preservation tax incentives, 

provide guidance on an application 

before or after the project begins, and 

provide advice on appropriate 

preservation work. SHPOs use Forms 

10–168d and 10–168e to make 

recommendations to NPS. In accordance 

with 36 CFR 67, we also collect 

information for: (1) certifications of state 

and local statutes (§ 67.8), (2) 

certifications of state or local historic 

districts (§ 67.9), and (3) appeals 

(§ 67.10). 

Title of Collection: Historic 

Preservation Certification Application. 

OMB Control Number: 1024–0009. 

Form Number: NPS Forms 10–168, 

10–168a, 10–168b, 10–168c, 10–168d, 

10–168e. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Individuals, organizations, companies 

and businesses, and State or tribal 

governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Respondents: 12,208. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 12,208. 

Estimated Completion Time per 

Response: Varies from 2.5 hours to 40 

hours. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 150,045. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain a benefit. 

Frequency of Collection: On occasion. 

Total Estimated Annual Nonhour 

Burden Cost: $4,440,135 based 

primarily on application fees and other 

costs. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor and a person is not required to 

respond to a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. 

The authority for this action is the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 

Phadrea Ponds, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer, 

National Park Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036874; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard 

University, Cambridge, MA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

Ethnology (PMAE) intends to repatriate 

certain cultural items that meet the 

definition of unassociated funerary 

objects and that have a cultural 

affiliation with the Indian Tribes or 

Native Hawaiian organizations in this 

notice. The cultural items were removed 

from were removed from Coahoma 

County, MS. 

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 

in this notice may occur on or after 

December 7, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Patricia Capone, PMAE, 

Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, 

Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 

496–3702, email pcapone@

fas.harvard.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 PMAE. 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 summary or related records held 

by the PMAE. 

Description 

The 109 cultural items were removed 

from the Oliver Site (Mississippi State 

Site number 22Co503) in Coahoma 

County, MS, in 1901 and 1902 as part 

of a Peabody Museum of Archaeology 

and Ethnology expedition to Mississippi 

led by Charles Peabody and William C. 

Farabee. The 109 unassociated funerary 

objects include 105 objects that are 

present at the PMAE and four objects 

that are not currently located. The 105 

present unassociated funerary objects 

are four brass beads, two glass beads, 

two quartz beads, 14 shell beads, one lot 

consisting of turquoise beads, two bone 

tools, one brass Clarksdale bell, four 

ceramic sherds, one lot consisting of 

ceramic sherds, 58 ceramic vessels or 

vessel fragments, 12 lots consisting of 

ceramic vessels or vessel fragments, two 

faunal bones, one mica fragment, and 

one perforated stone. The four objects 

not currently located are one lot 

consisting of shell beads, one lot 

consisting of ceramic vessels or vessel 

fragments, one lot consisting of lithic 

points, and one lot consisting of a 

perforated shell. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The cultural items 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 


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1https://www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/ 

revised-ma-ea-2014. 

2https://www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/stateactivities/beacon-wind-farm-construction-andoperations-plan. 

trace the relationship: anthropological 

information, archeological information, 

biological information, folklore, 

geographical information, historical 

information, kinship, linguistics, oral 

tradition, other relevant information, or 

expert opinion. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the PMAE has 

determined that: 

• The 109 cultural items described 

above 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 and are believed, by a 

preponderance of the evidence, to have 

been removed from a specific burial site 

of a Native American individual. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the cultural items and 

the Quapaw Nation. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Additional, written requests for 

repatriation of the cultural items in this 

notice must be sent to the Responsible 

Official identified in ADDRESSES. 

Requests for repatriation may be 

submitted by 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 cultural items in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after December 7, 2023. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the PMAE must determine the most 

appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of the cultural items are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The PMAE is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes and Native 

Hawaiian organizations identified in 

this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, § 10.10, and 

§ 10.14. 

Dated: October 27, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

[Docket No. BOEM–2023–062] 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Assessment for 

Additional Site Assessment Activities 

on Beacon Wind, LLC’s Renewable 

Energy Lease OCS–A 0520 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of intent; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management (BOEM) intends to prepare 

an environmental assessment (EA) to 

analyze the reasonably foreseeable 

impacts from additional site assessment 

activities in Lease Area OCS–A 0520 

offshore Massachusetts. Beacon Wind, 

LLC, (Beacon Wind), the leaseholder, 

requests to conduct additional site 

assessment activities in the lease area 

that were not analyzed in the initial EA. 

Those activities comprise temporarily 

installing and subsequently removing 

representative components of offshore 

wind turbine and substation 

foundations using a single suction 

bucket at locations where turbines and 

substations may be installed. BOEM is 

seeking public input regarding 

important environmental issues and the 

identification of reasonable alternatives 

that should be considered in the EA. 

This EA is limited to site assessment 

activities and will be completed 

consistent with the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and 

implementing regulations of the 

Department of the Interior and the 

Council on Environmental Quality 

(CEQ). BOEM will assess the impacts of 

constructing and operating any wind 

energy project proposed by Beacon 

Wind in Lease Area OCS–A 0520 in an 

environmental impact statement before 

deciding whether to approve that 

proposed project. 

DATES: BOEM must receive your 

comments no later than December 7, 

2023. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Through the regulations.gov web 

portal: Navigate to https:// 

www.regulations.gov and search for 

Docket No. BOEM–2023–062 to submit 

public comments and view supporting 

and related materials available for this 

notice. Click on the ‘‘Comment’’ button 

below the document link. Enter your 

information and comment, then click 

‘‘Submit Comment;’’ or 

• By U.S. Postal Service or other 

delivery service: Send your comments 

and information to the following 

address: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Office of Renewable 

Energy Programs, 45600 Woodland 

Road, Mail Stop VAM–OREP, Sterling, 

VA 20166. 

For additional information about 

submitting your comments, please see 

the discussion under the heading 

‘‘Public Participation’’ in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jessica Stromberg, BOEM, Environment 

Branch for Renewable Energy, 45600 

Woodland Road, Mail Stop VAM–OREP, 

Sterling, VA 20166, (703) 787–1722 or 

jessica.stromberg@boem.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: On December 8, 2020, 

Beacon Wind submitted a site 

assessment plan (SAP) to install and 

operate one floating light detection and 

ranging buoy, two current meter 

moorings, and two meteorological and 

oceanographic (metocean) buoys. 

Beacon Wind updated this SAP on June 

28, 2021, and BOEM approved it on 

September 24, 2021. 

On June 3, 2014, BOEM issued a 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

(FONSI) based on a comprehensive 

revised Environmental Assessment 

titled ‘‘Commercial Wind Lease 

Issuance and Site Assessment Activities 

on the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf 

Offshore Massachusetts (2014 EA).’’ 1

The 2014 EA included analysis of 

leasing and site assessment impacts in 

Lease Area OCS–A 0520. However, the 

suction bucket technique was not 

included in the analyzed site 

assessment activities. 

Proposed Action and Scope of Analysis 

The proposed action is approval of 

Beacon Wind’s amended SAP to 

conduct additional site assessment 

activities in the Lease Area. If approved, 

those activities will comprise 

foundation testing by installing and 

removing representative components for 

offshore wind turbine and substation 

foundations. This testing will include 

repeated use of a single suction bucket 

within the lease area at locations where 

wind turbines and substations may be 

installed. The equipment used for 

testing will be the same as described in 

Beacon Wind’s construction and 

operations plan 2 for suction bucket 

jacket foundations, which may be used 

to install offshore turbines and 


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