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one basket/basket fragments; one piece 

of red ochre; one unifacial tool; one 

bifacial tool; four pieces of modified 

bone (including one antler tine); 19 

pieces of bone (one burned bone 

fragment, one an antler fragment, and 17 

mammal bones); one piece of leather; 

116 pieces of sinew; 51 pieces of 

cordage (including one coiled); 19 mat 

fragments; three sandals; and one 

chipped stone flake. 

Between 1965 and 1968, human 

remains representing, at minimum, two 

individuals were removed from the 

Arenosa Shelter site in Val Verde 

County, TX. No associated funerary 

objects are present. 

In 1967, human remains representing, 

at minimum, five individuals were 

removed from the Parida Cave site in 

Val Verde County, TX. The site was 

documented by the University of Texas 

in 1958 and excavated in 1967. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

In 1967, human remains representing, 

at minimum, two individuals were 

removed from the Perry Calk site in Val 

Verde County, TX. The site, which 

consists of an intermediate size 

rockshelter and an adjacent horizontal 

shaft cave, was located in 1958 by the 

University of Texas. Excavations were 

conducted in 1967 by the Texas 

Archaeological Salvage Project. The one 

associated funerary object is a small 

rabbit fur robe. 

In 1967, human remains representing, 

at minimum, four individuals were 

removed from the Rio Grande Canyon 

site in Val Verde County, TX. The site 

was located during a 1958 survey by the 

University of Texas, and later excavated 

by the Texas Archaeological Salvage 

Project. No associated funerary objects 

are present. 

In 1967, human remains representing, 

at minimum, two individuals were 

removed from the Techo Bajo Shelter 

site in Val Verde County, TX. The site 

is a small rockshelter. The four 

associated funerary objects are one awl 

made from a Canis sp. ulna, and three 

modified bone fragments. 

In 1977 and 1989, human remains 

representing, at minimum three 

individuals were removed from the Four 

Turtle Cave site in Val Verde County, 

TX. Wave action exposed human 

remains in 1977, which were then 

removed by NPS personnel. A second 

set of human remains were removed in 

1989. Thirty-nine associated funerary 

objects include pebbles, quartz crystals, 

seeds, rabbit bone, snail shell fossil, 

wood, burned wood, rabbit fur, and 

chipped stone. 

Around 1978, human remains 

representing, at minimum, one 

individual were removed from the 

Keyhole Cave site in Val Verde County, 

TX. Fishermen found the human 

remains eroding out of the cave as a 

result of wave action. Sixteen associated 

funerary objects include stakes, mussel 

shell, a burnt wood fragment, burned 

pecan shell, and faunal remains 

(peccary). 

In 1979, human remains representing, 

at minimum, two individuals were 

removed from site 41VV962 in Val 

Verde County, TX. The human remains 

had been exposed by wave action and 

were removed by NPS personnel. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

In 1983, human remains representing, 

at minimum, one individual were 

removed from the Sin Piernas Cave site 

in Val Verde County, TX by NPS 

personnel. Wave action exposed the 

human remains, which appear to have 

been interred in a flexed position. The 

one associated funerary object is a 

hammerstone. 

In 1988, human remains representing, 

at minimum, one individual were 

removed from the Dust Mask Shelter 

site in Val Verde County, TX, by NPS 

personnel. No associated funerary 

objects are present. 

Aboriginal Land 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects in this notice were 

removed from known geographic 

locations. These locations are the 

aboriginal lands of one or more Indian 

Tribes. The following information was 

used to identify the aboriginal land: 

treaties. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes, AMIS has determined 

that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of 66 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The 350 associated funerary 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. The National Park 

Service intends to convey the associated 

funerary objects to the tribes pursuant to 

54 U.S.C. 102503(g) through (i) and 54 

U.S.C. 102504. 

• No relationship of shared group 

identity can be reasonably traced 

between the human remains and 

associated funerary objects and any 

Indian Tribe. 

• The human remains and associated 

funerary objects described in this notice 

were removed from the aboriginal land 

of the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; 

Comanche Nation, Oklahoma; Fort Sill 

Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Jicarilla 

Apache Nation, New Mexico; Kiowa 

Indian Tribe of Oklahoma; Mescalero 

Apache Tribe of the Mescalero 

Reservation, New Mexico; and the 

White Mountain Apache Tribe of the 

Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona. 

Requests for Disposition 

Written requests for disposition of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects in this notice must be sent to the 

Responsible Official identified in 

ADDRESSES. Requests for disposition 

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, or who 

shows that the requestor is an aboriginal 

land Indian Tribe. 

Disposition of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects described in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after February 12, 2024. If competing 

requests for disposition are received, 

AMIS must determine the most 

appropriate requestor prior to 

disposition. Requests for joint 

disposition of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. AMIS 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 and § 10.11. 

Dated: January 5, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037228; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion 

Amendment: University of Oregon 

Museum of Natural and Cultural 

History, Eugene, OR 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; amendment. 


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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

University of Oregon Museum of 

Natural and Cultural History has 

amended a Notice of Inventory 

Completion published in the Federal 

Register on September 10, 2018. This 

notice amends the minimum number of 

individuals and number of associated 

funerary objects in a collection removed 

from Catron County, NM. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

February 12, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Dr. Pamela Endzweig, 

Director of Anthropological Collections, 

University of Oregon Museum of 

Natural and Cultural History, 1224 

University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 

97403–1224, telephone (541) 346–5120, 

email endzweig@uoregon.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 University of 

Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural 

History. The National Park Service is 

not responsible for the determinations 

in this notice. Additional information 

on the amendments and determinations 

in this notice, including the results of 

consultation, can be found in the 

inventory or related records held by the 

University of Oregon Museum of 

Natural and Cultural History. 

Amendment 

This notice amends the 

determinations published in a Notice of 

Inventory Completion in the Federal 

Register (83 FR 45656–45657, 

September 10, 2018). Repatriation of the 

items in the original Notice of Inventory 

Completion has not occurred. From the 

SU Ranch Site, a minimum of 10 

individuals (previously reported as nine 

individuals) were removed from the 

Tularosa River area in Catron County, 

NM. This notice adds a 1–2-year-old 

child of unknown sex. One associated 

funerary object (previously no 

associated funerary objects), catalogued 

as 2–2937, is a Tularosa corrugated 

bowl. 

Determinations (as amended) 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the University of Oregon 

Museum of Natural and Cultural History 

has determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this amended notice represent the 

physical remains of 10 individuals of 

Native American ancestry. 

• The one object described in this 

amended notice 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. 

• 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 Fort Sill Apache 

Tribe of Oklahoma. 

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 

a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization. 

Repatriation of the human remains 

and associated funerary objects in this 

notice to a requestor may occur on or 

after February 12, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the University of Oregon Museum of 

Natural and Cultural History must 

determine the most appropriate 

requestor prior to repatriation. Requests 

for joint repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

are considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The University of 

Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural 

History 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 10.9, § 10.10, 

§ 10.13, and § 10.14. 

Dated: January 5, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

[Docket No. BOEM–2024–0001] 

Notice of Availability of a Draft 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement for Expected Wind Energy 

Development in the New York Bight 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability; request 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management (BOEM) announces the 

availability of the draft programmatic 

environmental impact statement (PEIS) 

to analyze the potential impacts of wind 

energy development in six lease areas of 

the New York (NY) Bight. The PEIS also 

identifies possible changes in those 

impacts that could result from adopting 

certain avoidance, minimization, 

mitigation, and monitoring (AMMM) 

measures (the Proposed Action). This 

notice of availability (NOA) announces 

the start of the public review and 

comment period and the dates and 

times for public meetings on the draft 

PEIS. After the public comment period 

and meetings, BOEM will address the 

issues raised and will publish a final 

PEIS. The final PEIS will inform 

BOEM’s decision whether to adopt 

certain AMMM measures at this stage 

that would potentially be required as 

conditions of approval for activities 

proposed by NY Bight lessees in their 

construction and operations plans 

(COPs) or defer the decision to adopt 

such measures to each project-specific 

environmental review. 

DATES: Comments must be received no 

later than February 26, 2024. BOEM will 

conduct a total of five virtual and inperson public meetings. BOEM’s public 

meetings will be held at the following 

times (all times Eastern): 

• January 31, 2024, 5:00 p.m.–9:00 

p.m., virtual meeting; 

• * February 5, 2024, 4:00 p.m.–7:00 

p.m., University of Massachusetts, 

Dartmouth, The Marketplace, MacLean 

Campus Center, 285 Old Westport Rd., 

North Dartmouth, MA 02747; 

• * February 7, 2024, 4:00 p.m.–7:00 

p.m., Stony Brook University, Bauman 

Center for Leadership and Service, 

Benedict D013, Room C029, 200 Circle 

Rd., Stony Brook, NY 11790; 

• * February 8, 2024, 4:00 p.m.–7:00 

p.m., Clarion Hotel Toms River, 815 

Route 37 West, Toms River, NJ 08755; 

and 

• February 13, 2024, 1:00 p.m.–5:00 

p.m., virtual meeting. 


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