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meetings) will be announced on the 

Grand Staircase-Escalante National 

Monument Advisory Committee web 

page 30 days before the meeting at 

https://bit.ly/3QGqaqJ. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Hercher, Paria River District 

Public Affairs Specialist, 669 S. 

Highway 89A, Kanab, UT 84741, via 

email with the subject line ‘‘GSENM 

MAC’’ to dhercher@blm.gov or by 

calling the Grand Staircase-Escalante 

National Monument Office at (435) 644– 

1200. 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. Please 

request sign language interpreter 

services, assistive listening devices, or 

other reasonable accommodations early. 

Please contact the person listed above at 

least 7 days before the meeting to give 

the Department of the Interior sufficient 

time to process your request. All 

reasonable accommodation requests will 

be managed on a case-by-case basis. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Presidential Proclamations 6920 and 

10286 established the Grand StaircaseEscalante National Monument Advisory 

Committee to provide advice and 

information to the Secretary of the 

Interior (through the Director of the 

BLM) to consider the management of 

Grand Staircase-Escalante National 

Monument. The 15-member committee 

represents a wide range of interests, 

including Tribal, local, and State 

governments; the educational 

community; the conservation 

community; an outfitter and guide 

operating within the monument; a 

livestock grazing permittee operating 

within the monument; a dispersed 

recreation representative; and members 

with expertise in paleontology, 

archaeology, geology, botany or wildlife, 

history or social science, and systems 

ecology. 

Planned agenda items for the 

February meeting include: 

• Administrative business 

• A status update on the monument 

resource management plan 

• A public comment period 

• Election of the advisory committee 

chairperson 

The BLM welcomes comments from 

all interested parties and the meeting 

will include a public comment period 

from 10:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. MT or 

until all public comments have 

concluded, whichever comes first. 

Written comments may also be sent to 

the Grand Staircase-Escalante National 

Monument at the address listed in this 

notice’s FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section. All comments received 

before the meeting will be provided to 

the Grand Staircase-Escalante National 

Monument Advisory Committee. 

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 we will be able to do 

so. 

Detailed meeting notes for the Grand 

Staircase-Escalante National Monument 

Advisory Committee meeting will be 

maintained in the Paria River District 

Office and available for public 

inspection and reproduction during 

regular business hours within 90 days 

following the meeting. Minutes will also 

be posted to the Grand StaircaseEscalante National Monument Advisory 

Committee web page. 

(Authority: 43 CFR 1784.4–2) 

Gregory Sheehan, 

State Director. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00906 Filed 1–17–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037265; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

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, Harvard University (PMAE) 

has completed an inventory of human 

remains and has determined that there 

is no cultural affiliation between the 

human remains and any Indian Tribe. 

The human remains were removed from 

Suffolk County, NY. 

DATES: Disposition of the human 

remains in this notice may occur on or 

after February 20, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Patricia Capone, Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 

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 inventory or related records held 

by the PMAE. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, three individuals were 

removed from Suffolk County, NY. 

William Wallace Tooker collected these 

individuals, each represented by 

cranium, at an unknown date and sold 

them to the Brooklyn Museum in 1901. 

The Brooklyn Museum transferred these 

individuals to the PMAE as part of a 

permanent loan in 1938; the loan was 

converted to a gift in 1964. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

An inventory of the objects and 

human remains purchased from Tooker 

by the Brooklyn Museum indicates that 

Tooker collected three human crania 

from Long Island in three discrete 

locations: a grave in Sag Harbor, a grave 

in East Hampton in a Meeting House lot, 

and a grave in Nissequogue. All three 

localities are within Suffolk County on 

Long Island. The inventory indicates 

that the individual found in Sag Harbor 

was collected with a broken ceramic 

vessel from a ‘‘grave near Otter Pond 

Shell Heap.’’ The presence of a ceramic 

vessel dates the burial to the Woodland 

Period (post 1000 BC) or later. This 

vessel is not located at the PMAE and 

its location is unknown. The inventory 

also indicates that the individual from 

East Hampton was buried in 1662 and 

was excavated along with a glass bottle; 

the bottle is also not located at the 

PMAE and its location is unknown. The 

presence of a glass bottle indicates a 

post-Contact (post A.D. 1600) burial 

date for the East Hampton individual. 

No geographical, temporal, or associated 

object information is provided for the 

individual from Nissequogue. No 

funerary objects were transferred to the 

PMAE with the individual from 

Nissequogue. 

Insufficient evidence is present to 

reassociate these three individuals with 

Tooker’s original provenience 

information; consequently, their burial 

locations cannot be identified beyond 


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Suffolk County, NY, and no temporal 

information for their interments can be 

established. 

Aboriginal Land 

The human remains 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: 

authoritative documents. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes, the PMAE has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of three individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• No relationship of shared group 

identity can be reasonably traced 

between the human remains and any 

Indian Tribe. 

• The human remains described in 

this notice were removed from the 

aboriginal land of the Shinnecock 

Indian Nation. 

Requests for Disposition 

Written requests for disposition of the 

human remains 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 

described in this notice to a requestor 

may occur on or after February 20, 2024. 

If competing requests for disposition are 

received, the PMAE must determine the 

most appropriate requestor prior to 

disposition. Requests for joint 

disposition of the human remains are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The PMAE 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 11, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00833 Filed 1–17–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037263; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: North 

Carolina Office of State Archaeology, 

Raleigh, NC 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the North 

Carolina Office of State Archaeology 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 Burke County, NC. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

February 20, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Emily McDowell, Office of 

State Archaeology, 215 West Lane 

Street, Raleigh, NC 27616, telephone 

(919) 715–5599, email emily.mcdowell@

dncr.nc.gov. 

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 North Carolina 

Office of State Archaeology. 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 the North Carolina Office of State 

Archaeology. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, three individuals were 

removed from Burke County, NC. 

Burials were excavated from the Berry 

Site/Joara/Fort San Juan in 1986 by Dr. 

David Moore of Warren Wilson College. 

The site itself is both an American 

Indian Mississippian village and 

Historic 16th-century Spanish 

settlement known as Joara and Fort San 

Juan, respectively. Joara is known as one 

of the largest Mississippian settlements 

in North Carolina. It is unclear when 

this collection came into the possession 

of the Office of State Archaeology in 

Raleigh, NC. The three individuals were 

removed from two burials and can be 

identified as follows: Burial 1, one adult 

male aged 23–30; Burial 2, two adult 

females aged less than 26 years 

(Individual A) and 18–22 years 

(Individual B). The 57 associated 

funerary objects are two feather rachis, 

one iron knife, eight chipped stone 

projectile points, one clay pipe, one 

quartz cobble, two ground stone, 10 

flakes, one bag turtle carapace 

fragments, two copper discs, three 

charcoal fragments, seven pieces of 

organic fibers, two rocks, 10 washings/ 

soil samples from Burial 1, four copper 

fragments, one charcoal fragment, and 

two soil samples from Burial 2. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects 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: archeological 

information, geographical information, 

historical 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 North Carolina Office 

of State Archaeology has determined 

that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of three individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The 57 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. 

• 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 Catawba Indian 

Nation. 


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