50622 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 187 / Friday, September 26, 1997 / Notices

Dated: September 11, 1997.

Robert D. DeViney, Jr.,

Chief, Branch of Realty and Records Services.

[FR Doc. 97–25529 Filed 9–25–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Minerals Management Service

Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Policy

Committee of the Advisory Board;

Notice and Agenda for Meeting

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service,

Interior.

SUMMARY: The OCS Policy Committee of

the Minerals Management Advisory

Board will meet at the San Luis Resort

and Conference Center in Galveston,

Texas on October 29–30, 1997.

The agenda will cover the following

principal subjects:

—Report from the Coastal Impact

Assistance Working Group

—Report from the Hard Minerals

Subcommittee

—Central and Western Gulf of Mexico:

Update and Challenges

—Update on Leasing and Activity

—Changing Geological Potential—

Recent Discoveries and Drilling

—Technology Advances, Issues and

Research

—Tight Demand for Rigs and Vessels

—Supply of Labor and Training

—Environmental Studies and Issues

—Eastern Gulf of Mexico Issues

—Geoogical Plays and Ecological

Perspective

—Future Developments

—‘‘The Promise and the Reward: 50

Years Offshore’’

—U.N. Year of the Ocean

—Congressional Update

—OCS Scientific Committee Update

—Alaska and Pacific Regional Updates

The meeting is open to the public.

Upon request, interested parties may

make oral or written presentations to the

OCS Policy Committee. Such requests

should be made no later than October

17, 1997, to the Minerals Management

Service, 381 Elden Street, MS–4001,

Herndon, Virginia 20170, Attention:

Jeryne Bryant.

Request to make oral statements

should be accompanied by a summary

of the statement to be made. For more

information, call Jeryne Bryant at (703)

787–1211.

Minutes of the OCS Policy Committee

meeting will be available for public

inspection and copying at the Minerals

Management Service in Herndon,

Virginia.

DATES: Wednesday, October 29 and

Thursday, October 30, 1997.

ADDRESSES: The San Luis Resort and

Conference Center, 5222 Seawall

Boulevard, Galveston, Texas 77551—

(800) 445–0090 or (409) 744–1500.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jeryne Bryant at the address and phone

number listed above.

Authority: Federal Advisory Committee

Act, P.L. No. 92–463, 5 U.S.C. Appendix 1,

and the Office of Management and Budget’s

Circular No. A–63, Revised.

Dated: September 23, 1997.

Thomas A. Readinger,

Acting Associate Director for Offshore

Minerals Management.

[FR Doc. 97–25637 Filed 9–25–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural

Items in the Possession of the Palm

Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs,

CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

Notice is hereby given under the

Native American Graves Protection and

Repatriation Act, 25 U.S.C. 3005 (a)(2),

of the intent to repatriate cultural items

in the possession of the Palm Springs

Desert Museum which meet the

definition of ‘‘sacred object’’ and

‘‘unassociated funerary object’’ under

Section 2 of the Act.

The 22 cultural items consist of a

ceremonial bundle, a clay pipe with red

pigment, a bone whistle, two dance

sticks, four feather wands, a set of

twelve wooden counting sticks for peon;

a set of eight pieces used in peon, a clay

pipe; a set of flicker feather straps; an

olla with red pigment; a tortoise shell

rattle; a small mortar and pestle set; a

gray fox headband; a coyote skin

headband; a bear fur piece; two bone

and asphaltum whistles; and a strand of

shell, ceramic and stone beads.

In 1954, the set of twelve wooden

counting sticks for peon were donated

to the Palm Springs Desert Museum by

Cornelia B. White and A.E. Dickinson.

In 1958, a clay pipe was donated to

the Palm Springs Desert Museum by

Randall Henderson who indicated it

was found in Indio Heights.

In 1961 and 1965, Dr. Lowell Bean,

Anthropologist of the Palm Springs

Desert Museum, purchased the

ceremonial bundle, bone whistle, and

two wooden dance sticks from unknown

sources, and the tortoise shell rattle

from Seraglio Welmas, a member of the

Agua Caliente Band.

In 1965, the set of flicker feather

straps, a clay pipe, two bone and

asphaltum whistles, four ceremonial

feather wands, the coyote headband, the

gray fox headband, the bear fur piece,

and the peon game were donated to the

Palm Springs Desert Museum from

unknown sources.

In 1985, a ceramic olla with red

pigment was donated to the Palm

Springs Desert Museum by Edward B.

And Josefa Kaminski. This olla was

removed from Tahquitz Canyon within

the Agua Caliente reservation.

In 1990, a small granite mortar and

pestle were donated to the Palm Springs

Desert Museum by Ms. Mary Elizabeth

Redeker. During the 1970s, Ms. Redeker

was given the mortar and pestle by Nina

Paul Shumway, who found these items

in the Coachella Valley, site unknown,

around 1920.

Consultation with representatives of

the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla

Indians indicates that the 21 items listed

above are specific ceremonial objects

used and worn in sacred ceremonies

and needed by traditional Native

American religious leaders for the

practice of traditional Native American

religion by their present-day adherents.

In 1975, a strand of bone, shell, and

stone beads exhibiting blackening was

donated to the Palm Springs Desert

Museum by Nina Paul Shumway.

Consultation with representatives of the

Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians

indicate that such blackening is

consistent with cremation, the

traditional funerary practice of the Agua

Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians.

Based on the above-mentioned

information, officials of the Palm

Springs Desert Museum have

determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.

3001(3)(B), the one strand of bone, shell,

and stone beads is 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 burial site of an

Native American individual. Officials of

the Palm Springs Desert Museum have

also determined that, pursuant to 25

U.S.C. 3001 (3)(C), the remaining 21

cultural items are specific ceremonial

objects needed by traditional Native

American religious leaders for the

practice of traditional Native American

religions by their present-day adherents.

Officials of the Palm Springs Desert

Museum have also determined that,

pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is

a relationship of shared group identity

which can be reasonably traced between

these 22 items and the Agua Caliente

Band of Cahuilla Indians.