Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 18 / Friday, January 26, 2024 / Notices 5259 

Dated: January 18, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–01538 Filed 1–25–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037279; 

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Notice of Inventory Completion: 

University of California, Davis, 

Davis, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

University of California, Davis (UC 

Davis) 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 Solano County, CA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

February 26, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Megon Noble, NAGPRA 

Project Manager, University of 

California, Davis, 412 Mrak Hall, One 

Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, 

telephone (530) 752–8501, email 

mnoble@ucdavis.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 UC Davis. 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 UC Davis. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, two individuals were 

removed from Solano County, CA. In 

1973, CA–SOL–271 was excavated by 

Helen Clough as part of a UC Davis 

Field School (UC Davis Accession 66). 

In 1999, the same site was excavated 

again by UC Davis Anthropology 

Graduate Student, Eric Wohlgemuth 

(UC Davis Accession 537). There are 

1,330 lots of associated funerary objects. 

Of that number, 1,316 funerary objects 

have been located and 14 objects are 

currently missing. UC Davis continues 

to look for the missing associated 

funerary objects. The 1,316 located 

funerary objects are three lots consisting 

of worked shell (including beads and 

pendants); 28 lots consisting of worked 

bone (awls, whistles, and other worked 

bone); five lots consisting of stone 

beads; 115 lots consisting of projectile 

points, bifaces, and other chipped stone; 

132 lots consisting of groundstone; 333 

lots consisting of debitage; 162 lots 

consisting of worked stone; 19 lots 

consisting of baked clay/ceramics; 320 

lots consisting of unmodified animal 

bone; 94 lots consisting of unmodified 

shell; 23 lots consisting of charcoal, ash, 

and ochre; five lots consisting of mixed 

bone, shell and seeds; 18 lots consisting 

of plant material (seeds, nuts, acorn 

caps); and 59 lots consisting of 

flotations, fire affected rock, soil, and 

unmodified stone. The 14 currently 

missing associated funerary objects are 

one lot consisting of worked shell; one 

lot consisting of worked bone; four 

projectile points; one lot consisting of 

debitage; one lot consisting of worked 

stone; three lots consisting of 

unmodified animal bone; one lot 

consisting of unmodified shell; and one 

lot consisting of unmodified stone; and 

one lot consisting of unknown material. 

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: anthropological, 

archeological, geographical, historical, 

linguistics, and oral tradition. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, UC Davis has determined 

that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of two individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The 1,330 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 Cachil DeHe Band of 

Wintun Indians of the Colusa Indian 

Community of the Colusa Rancheria, 

California; Kletsel Dehe Wintun Nation 

of the Cortina Rancheria (Previously 

listed as Kletsel Dehe Band of Wintun 

Indians); and the Yocha Dehe Wintun 

Nation, California. 

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 26, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

UC Davis 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. UC Davis is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes identified in 

this notice. 

This notice was submitted before the 

effective date of the revised regulations 

(88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, 

effective January 12, 2024). As the 

notice conforms to the mandatory 

format of the Federal Register and 

includes the required information, the 

National Park Service is publishing this 

notice as submitted. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.10. 

Dated: January 18, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–01536 Filed 1–25–24; 8:45 am] 

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