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Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the University of 

California, Riverside and the California 

Department of Parks and Recreation has 

determined that: 

• The two lots of cultural items 

described above have ongoing historical, 

traditional, or cultural importance 

central to the Native American group or 

culture itself, rather than property 

owned by an individual. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the cultural items and 

the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash 

Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez 

Reservation, California. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Additional, written requests for 

repatriation of the cultural items in this 

notice must be sent to the Responsible 

Official identified in ADDRESSES. 

Requests for repatriation may be 

submitted by 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 cultural items in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after March 29, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the University of California, Riverside 

and the California Department of Parks 

and Recreation must determine the most 

appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of the cultural items are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The University of 

California, Riverside and the California 

Department of Parks and Recreation is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes and Native 

Hawaiian organizations 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: February 20, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–04092 Filed 2–27–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037475; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

University of California, Riverside, 

Riverside, CA and the California 

Department of Parks and Recreation, 

Sacramento, 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, Riverside and 

the California Department of Parks and 

Recreation 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 Kings County, CA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

March 29, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Megan Murphy, University 

of California, Riverside, 900 University 

Avenue, Riverside, CA 92517–5900, 

telephone (951) 827–6349, email 

megan.murphy@ucr.edu and Leslie 

Hartzell, NAGPRA Coordinator, 

California State Parks, 715 P Street, 

Suite 13, Sacramento, CA 95814, 

telephone (415) 831–2700, email 

271eslie.hartzell@parks.ca.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 University of 

California, Riverside and the California 

Department of Parks and Recreation. 

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 University of 

California, Riverside and the California 

Department of Parks and Recreation. 

Description 

At some time before 1992, human 

remains representing, at minimum, one 

individual were removed from the 

Tulare Lake Witt Site locale in Kings 

County, CA, by a private individual. 

The human remains were donated to the 

California Department of Parks and 

Recreation by the private individual and 

subsequently submitted to the 

University of California, Riverside 

Radiocarbon Laboratory for Uraniumseries method dating tests. The 

collection was subsequently held in the 

UCR Radiocarbon Laboratory under the 

direction of Dr. R. Ervin Taylor. When 

he retired in 2003, the lab was 

decommissioned and its records and 

remaining sample materials were 

subsequently stored by Dr. Taylor in an 

off-campus storage facility, which he 

did not report to the campus 

Repatriation Coordinator at the time. 

The residual sample materials were 

rediscovered by UCR NAGPRA Program 

Staff during a collections inventory in 

February of 2021. At the time no 

documentation indicating who the 

individual was or where they were 

removed from was found and it was not 

until September of 2022, that UCR 

NAGPRA Staff were able to find 

publications that described human 

remains removed from the site and datasample sheets produced by the 

laboratory that were consistent with this 

individual. It was also discovered in 

2023 that the larger skeletal elements 

from which the samples were removed 

were present at California State 

University, Bakersfield since at least 

2017 when Dr. Robert Bettinger (UCR 

Alumnus) likely transferred them from 

the University of California, Davis 

without the knowledge of the Tribe or 

any NAGPRA Program to Dr. Robert 

Yohe III at CSUB. The human remains 

are approximately 44 mineralized bone 

fragments/elements representing at least 

one cranium and at least one femur. No 

known individuals were determined to 

be represented by the human remains. 

Uranium-series method dates suggest a 

date between 11,390 ± 70 and 15,800 ± 

380 BP. The three associated funerary 

objects are one lot of lithic/stone 

objects, one lot of soil samples, and one 

lot of faunal remains. 

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 


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Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: tribal traditional 

knowledge, archeological information, 

geographical information, historical 

information, kinship, oral tradition, and 

expert opinion. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the University of 

California, Riverside and the California 

Department of Parks and Recreation has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of one individual of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The three 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 Santa Rosa Indian 

Community of the Santa Rosa 

Rancheria, 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 March 29, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the University of California, Riverside 

and the California Department of Parks 

and Recreation 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 

California, Riverside and the California 

Department of Parks and Recreation are 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes and Native 

Hawaiian organizations 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: February 20, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–04089 Filed 2–27–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037486; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

California State University, 

Sacramento, Sacramento, CA and 

California State Department of 

Transportation, Sacramento, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), California 

State University, Sacramento and 

California State Department of 

Transportation (Caltrans) have 

completed an inventory of human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

and have determined that there is a 

cultural affiliation between the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

and Indian Tribes in this notice. The 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects were removed from Sacramento 

County, CA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

March 29, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Dr. Mark Wheeler, Chief of 

Staff to President Luke Wood, California 

State University, Sacramento, 6000 J 

Street, Sacramento, CA 95819, 

telephone (916) 460–0490, email 

mark.wheeler@csus.edu and Dr. Lisa 

Bright, Branch Chief District 3, Cultural 

Resources (South), California State 

Department of Transportation, 703 B 

Street, Marysville, CA 95901, telephone 

(530) 812–4569, email Lisa.Bright@

dot.ca.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 California State 

University, Sacramento and Caltrans. 

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 California State 

University, Sacramento and Caltrans. 

Description 

In 1954–1956, 1967 and 1972, human 

remains representing, at minimum, 486 

individuals were removed from CA– 

SAC–29 (also known as Roeder Mound 

and Sama). The 1954–56 excavations 

were carried out by Sacramento State 

College (now California State 

University, Sacramento) under the 

direction of Richard Reeve and Brigham 

Arnold. The 1967 excavations were 

carried out by the State Department of 

Parks and Recreation (DPR) for Caltrans 

under the direction of William Prichard. 

A salvage excavation done under the 

direction of Jerald J. Johnson for Pacific 

Gas and Electric in 1972, a 1990 

donation of human remains and artifacts 

made by a private collector, and a 1950s 

donation of artifacts by the estate of 

Anthony Zallio to the University are 

also part of the assemblage. Occupation 

of the site is estimated to have occurred 

during the Early through Historic 

periods. The 643,304 associated 

funerary objects removed from this site 

include baked clay objects; ash; 

modified bones, stones, and shells; 

historic materials; flaked and ground 

stones; thermally-altered rocks; textiles; 

floral and faunal remains; pigment; 

unmodified stones; cooking stones; 

coprolites; mud dauber nests; soil and 

column samples; modern refuse; and 

unidentified materials. Of this number, 

at least 198 objects are currently missing 

from the collection and California State 

University, Sacramento continues to 

look for them. An unknown number of 

additional objects are also missing. 

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 


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