Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 2 / Wednesday, January 3, 2024 / Notices 393 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037164; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: Los 

Rios Community College District, 

Sacramento, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Los 

Rios Community College District 

(LRCCD) has completed an inventory of 

human remains and has determined that 

there is a cultural affiliation between the 

human remains and Indian Tribes or 

Native Hawaiian organizations in this 

notice. The human remains were 

removed from Sacramento County, CA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains in this notice may occur on or 

after February 2, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Jamey Nye, Los Rios 

Community College District, 1919 

Spanos Ct., Arden-Arcade, CA 95825, 

telephone (916) 709–3724, email nyej@

losrios.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 LRCCD. 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 LRCCD. 

Description 

Sometime in the 1950s on or before 

July 13, 1952, human remains 

representing, at minimum, three 

individuals were removed from CA– 

SAC–171 (P–34–000198) in Sacramento 

County, CA, during the excavation of a 

cellar on private property. Sometime 

prior to July of 2006, the human remains 

of these individuals were located on the 

American River College campus, which 

is one of four colleges within the Los 

Rios Community College District. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains 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. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, LRCCD has determined 

that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of three individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the human remains 

described in this notice and the Buena 

Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of 

California; California Valley Miwok 

Tribe, California; Chicken Ranch 

Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of 

California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians 

of California; Jackson Band of Miwuk 

Indians; Shingle Springs Band of Miwok 

Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria 

(Verona Tract), California; Tuolumne 

Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the 

Tuolumne Rancheria of California; 

United Auburn Indian Community of 

the Auburn Rancheria of California; and 

the Wilton Rancheria, California. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains 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 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 in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after February 2, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

LRCCD must determine the most 

appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of the human remains are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. LRCCD 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: December 20, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–28919 Filed 1–2–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037168; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: San 

Jose State University, San Jose, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), San Jose 

State University (SJSU) has completed 

an inventory of human remains and 

associated funerary objects and has 

determined that there is no cultural 

affiliation between the human remains 

and associated funerary objects and any 

federally-recognized Indian Tribe. The 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects were removed from Santa Clara 

County, CA. 

DATES: Disposition of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

February 2, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Charlotte Sunseri, Ph.D., 

San Jose State University, One 

Washington Square, San Jose, CA 

95192–0113, telephone (408) 924–5713, 

email charlotte.sunseri@sjsu.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 San Jose 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 San Jose State 

University. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, 89 individuals were removed 

from Santa Clara County, CA. The Santa 

Clara County collection was recovered 

in various projects from 1960 to 1995. 

Some West Valley College holdings 

were transferred to SJSU in a 

memorandum establishing legal control 

by SJSU in 2022 and comprise a fraction 

of the overall holdings. The collections 

come from the sites of CA–SCL–2A, 


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