Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 217 / Monday, November 13, 2023 / Notices 77607 

Department of Defense, National Park 

Service, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency Region 9, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, U.S. Forest Service, Nevada 

Department of Transportation, Nevada 

Department of Wildlife, Nevada 

Division of Environmental Protection, 

Nevada Division of Minerals, Nevada 

Division of State Lands, Nevada State 

Historic Preservation Office, Esmeralda 

County, and Nye County. Additional 

agencies and organizations may be 

identified as potential cooperating 

agencies to participate in the 

environmental analysis for the RMP 

Amendment/PEIS. 

Responsible Official 

The Nevada State Director is the 

deciding official for this planning effort. 

Nature of Decision To Be Made 

The nature of the decision to be made 

will be the Nevada State Director’s 

selection of land use planning decisions 

for managing BLM-administered lands 

under the principles of multiple use and 

sustained yield in a manner that best 

addresses the purpose and need. 

Interdisciplinary Team 

The BLM will use an interdisciplinary 

approach to develop the plan 

amendment in order to consider the 

variety of resource issues and concerns 

identified. Specialists with expertise in 

the following disciplines will be 

involved in this planning effort: geology 

and soils, vegetation and noxious and 

invasive species, wildlife, hydrology, air 

quality, minerals, paleontology, visual 

resources, cultural resources, 

socioeconomics, public health and 

safety, land use and recreation, special 

designations, and others deemed 

necessary based on the results of the 

scoping process. 

Additional Information 

The BLM will identify, analyze, and 

consider mitigation to address the 

reasonably foreseeable impacts to 

resources from the proposed plan 

amendment and all analyzed reasonable 

alternatives and, in accordance with 40 

CFR 1502.14(e), include appropriate 

mitigation measures not already 

included in the proposed plan 

amendment or alternatives. Mitigation 

may include avoidance, minimization, 

rectification, reduction or elimination 

over time, and compensation; and may 

be considered at multiple scales, 

including the landscape scale. 

The BLM will utilize and coordinate 

the NEPA and land use planning 

processes for this planning effort to help 

support compliance with applicable 

procedural requirements under the 

Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C. 

1536) and Section 106 of the National 

Historic Preservation Act (54 U.S.C. 

306108) as provided in 36 CFR 

800.2(d)(3), including public 

involvement requirements of Section 

106. The information about historic and 

cultural resources and threatened and 

endangered species within the area 

potentially affected by the proposed 

plan will assist the BLM in identifying 

and evaluating impacts to such 

resources. 

The BLM will consult with Indian 

Tribes on a government-to-government 

basis in accordance with Executive 

Order 13175, BLM MS 1780, and other 

Departmental policies. Tribal concerns, 

including impacts on Indian trust assets 

and potential impacts to cultural 

resources, will be given due 

consideration. Federal, State, and local 

agencies, along with Indian Tribal 

Nations and other stakeholders that may 

be interested in or affected by the 

proposed RMP Amendment and PEIS 

that the BLM is evaluating, are invited 

to participate in the scoping process 

and, if eligible, may request or be 

requested by the BLM to participate in 

the development of the environmental 

analysis as a cooperating agency. The 

BLM intends to hold a series of 

government-to-government consultation 

meetings. The BLM will send invites to 

potentially affected Tribal Nations prior 

to the meetings. The BLM will provide 

additional opportunities for 

government-to-government consultation 

during the NEPA process. 

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 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

(Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7 and 43 CFR 

1610.2) 

Jon K. Raby, 

State Director. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24884 Filed 11–9–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[BLM_AK_FRN_MO4500172712; AA–12466] 

Alaska Native Claims Selection 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of decision approving 

lands for conveyance. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) hereby provides 

constructive notice that it will issue an 

appealable decision approving 

conveyance of the surface and 

subsurface estates in certain lands to 

Calista Corporation, an Alaska Native 

regional corporation, pursuant to the 

Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 

1971 (ANCSA). 

DATES: Any party claiming a property 

interest in the lands affected by the 

decision may appeal the decision in 

accordance with the requirements of 43 

CFR part 4 within the time limits set out 

in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

section. 

ADDRESSES: You may obtain a copy of 

the decision from the Bureau of Land 

Management, Alaska State Office, 222 

West Seventh Avenue, #13, Anchorage, 

AK 99513–7504. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Abby Muth, Land Law Examiner, BLM 

Alaska State Office, 907–271–3345, or 

amuth@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. 

Individuals outside the United States 

should use the relay services offered 

within their country to make 

international calls to the point of 

contact in the United States. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As 

required by 43 CFR 2650.7(d), notice is 

hereby given that the BLM will issue an 

appealable decision to Calista 

Corporation. The decision approves 

conveyance of the surface and 

subsurface estates in certain lands 

pursuant to ANCSA (43 U.S.C. 1601, et 

seq.). The lands are located in the 

vicinity of Russian Mission, Alaska, and 

are described as: 

Seward Meridian, Alaska 

T. 23 N., R. 65 W., 

Secs. 27 and 28. 

Containing 1,280 acres. 

T. 23 N., R. 66 W., 

Secs. 22 to 27, inclusive; 

Secs. 34, 35, and 36. 

Containing 5,760 acres. 


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Aggregating 7,040 acres. 

The decision addresses public access 

easements, if any, to be reserved to the 

United States pursuant to Sec. 17(b) of 

ANCSA (43 U.S.C. 1616(b)), in the lands 

described above. 

The BLM will also publish notice of 

the decision once a week for four 

consecutive weeks in the ‘‘The Delta 

Discovery’’ newspaper. 

Any party claiming a property interest 

in the lands affected by the decision 

may appeal the decision in accordance 

with the requirements of 43 CFR part 4 

within the following time limits: 

1. Unknown parties, parties unable to 

be located after reasonable efforts have 

been expended to locate, parties who 

fail or refuse to sign their return receipt, 

and parties who receive a copy of the 

decision by regular mail which is not 

certified, return receipt requested, shall 

have until December 13, 2023 to file an 

appeal. 

2. Parties receiving service of the 

decision by certified mail shall have 30 

days from the date of receipt to file an 

appeal. 

Parties who do not file an appeal in 

accordance with the requirements of 43 

CFR part 4 shall be deemed to have 

waived their rights. Notices of appeal 

transmitted by facsimile will not be 

accepted as timely filed. 

Abby J. Muth, 

Land Law Examiner, Adjudication Section. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24860 Filed 11–9–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036900; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

Gilcrease Museum 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 Bartow County, GA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 

in this notice may occur on or after 

December 13, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Laura Bryant, Gilcrease 

Museum, 800 S Tucker Drive, Tulsa, OK 

74104, telephone (918) 596–2747, email 

laura-bryant@utulsa.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 Gilcrease 

Museum. 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 Gilcrease Museum. 

Description 

Three cultural items were removed 

from Bartow County, GA. In the earlyto-mid-20th century, Louis Larson 

removed pottery sherds from the 

Etowah site, and in 1959, Thomas 

Gilcrease acquired them. In September 

of 1954, Frank Soday removed pottery 

sherds and lithic flakes from the Etowah 

site, and in 1982, the Thomas Gilcrease 

Association purchased Soday’s 

collection and donated it to Gilcrease 

Museum. The three unassociated 

funerary objects are two lots consisting 

of pottery sherds and one lot consisting 

of lithic flakes. 

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 

trace the relationship: anthropological, 

archeological, geographical, historical, 

kinship, linguistics, oral tradition, other 

relevant information, and expert 

opinion. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the Gilcrease Museum 

has determined that: 

• The three 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 Muscogee (Creek) 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 13, 2023. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the Gilcrease Museum 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 Gilcrease 

Museum 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 10.8, 10.10, and 

10.14. 

Dated: November 1, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24888 Filed 11–9–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036903; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Kansas Historical Society, Topeka, KS 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Kansas 

Historical Society (KSHS) 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 Atchison, 

Doniphan, and Leavenworth Counties, 

KS. 


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