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20240, (202) 208–5436, sarah_leflore@

ios.doi.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Settlement Act, Public Law 114–322, 

was enacted to resolve certain claims to 

water of the Choctaw Nation of 

Oklahoma (Choctaw Nation) and the 

Chickasaw Nation as set forth in the 

State of Oklahoma, Choctaw Nation, 

Chickasaw Nation, City of Oklahoma 

City Water Settlement Agreement 

(Settlement Agreement) and the 

Settlement Act, including all claims or 

defenses in and to Chickasaw Nation 

and Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma v. 

Fallin, et al., Case No. CIV 11–927–G 

(W.D. Okla.) and Oklahoma Water 

Resources Board v. United States, et al., 

Case No. CIV 12–275–G (W.D. Okla.). 

The Settlement Parties include the 

Choctaw Nation, Chickasaw Nation, 

State of Oklahoma (State, including the 

Oklahoma Water Resources Board 

(OWRB)), City of Oklahoma City (City), 

Oklahoma City Water Utilities Trust 

(Trust), and the United States. 

The Settlement Act and Settlement 

Agreement, inter alia, recognize and 

protect the Chickasaw Nation and 

Choctaw Nation’s respective existing 

water uses and also provides procedures 

for expanded water uses in the future; 

create mechanisms by which the 

Nations will participate in the OWRB’s 

consideration of certain applications to 

appropriate water within their historic 

treaty territories; and resolve certain 

issues related to Sardis Reservoir. 

Although section 3608(i)(2) of the 

Settlement Act established September 

30, 2020 as the original deadline by 

which the findings herein were to be 

certified, the Settlement Parties twice 

extended the deadline pursuant to 

section 3608(i)(4) of the Settlement Act. 

The current deadline for this 

certification runs until March 31, 2024. 

Statement of Findings 

In accordance with section 3608(i)(1) 

of the Settlement Act and section 4.1 of 

the Settlement Agreement, I find and 

certify as follows: 

(1) To the extent the Settlement 

Agreement conflicts with the Settlement 

Act, the Settlement Agreement has been 

amended to conform with the 

Settlement Act; 

(2) The Settlement Agreement, as 

amended, has been executed by the 

Secretary of the Interior, the Choctaw 

Nation, the Chickasaw Nation, the 

Governor and Attorney General of the 

State, the OWRB, the City, and the 

Trust; 

(3) The Amended Storage Contract 

has been amended to conform with the 

Settlement Act; 

(4) The Amended Storage Contract, as 

amended to conform with the 

Settlement Act, has been executed by 

the State, the City, and the Trust, and 

approved by the Secretary of the Army; 

(5) An order has been entered in 

United States v. Oklahoma Water 

Resources Board, Case No. Civ. 98–C– 

521–E with any modifications to the 

order dated September 11, 2009, as 

provided in the Settlement Act; 

(6) Orders of dismissal have been 

entered in Chickasaw Nation and 

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma v. Fallin, 

et al., Case No. CIV 11–927–G (W.D. 

Okla.) and Oklahoma Water Resources 

Board v. United States, et al., Case No. 

CIV 12–275–G (W.D. Okla.) as provided 

in the Settlement Agreement; 

(7) The OWRB has issued the City 

Permit; 

(8) The final documentation of the 

Kiamichi Basin hydrologic model is on 

file at the Oklahoma City office of the 

OWRB; 

(9) The Atoka and Sardis 

Conservation Projects Fund has been 

funded as provided in the Settlement 

Agreement; and, 

(10) The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw 

Nation, and United States have executed 

the required waivers and releases of 

claims as required by the Settlement Act 

and Settlement Agreement. 

Deb Haaland, 

Secretary of the Interior. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037471; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: Fort 

Lewis College, Durango, CO 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Fort Lewis 

College 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 La Plata County and 

Montezuma County, CO. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains in this notice may occur on or 

after March 29, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Amy Cao, Fort Lewis 

College, 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO 

81301, telephone (970) 247–7030, email 

arcao@fortlewis.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 Fort Lewis 

College. 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 Fort Lewis College. 

Description 

In 1978 and 1979, human remains 

representing, at minimum, 21 

individuals were removed from site 5LP 

117 (also referred to as 5LP 138), in La 

Plata County, CO. These were recovered 

during survey and salvage excavations 

conducted on private land in the Bodo 

Industrial Park south of Durango along 

the Animas River under the direction of 

Dr. Susan Riches as part of Fort Lewis 

College summer field school classes. 

The 1978 excavation was assigned site 

number 5LP 117 and initially, the 1979 

excavations were assigned 5LP 138, 

however, according to documentation, 

Dr. Riches concluded that this was a 

continuation of the 5LP 117 site. Bags, 

labels, and other documentation may 

list 5LP 138, but this all refers to the 

1979 summer excavations of site 5LP 

117. No associated funerary objects are 

present. Based on the artifactual 

evidence, this site is designated as 

Ancestral Pueblo from the Pueblo I 

period (A.D. 700–840) (Charles, MC, 

1996. ‘‘The Emergency Excavations of 

Three Human Burials in Bodo Industrial 

Ranches, La Plata County, CO’’). 

Between 1984 and 1997, human 

remains representing, at minimum, nine 

individuals were removed from site 

5MT 4802 (the Pigg site), in Montezuma 

County, CO, under the direction of Jim 

Judge as part of Fort Lewis College field 

school classes. No associated funerary 

objects are present. Based on 

architectural and artifactual evidence, 

this site is designated as Ancestral 

Pueblo from the Pueblo II/III period 

(A.D. 1150–1250). 

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 


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trace the relationship: anthropological 

information, archeological information, 

biological information, folklore, 

geographical information, historical 

information, kinship, linguistics, oral 

tradition, as well as expert opinion. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, Fort Lewis College has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of 30 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• 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 Hopi Tribe of 

Arizona; Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico; 

Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo 

of Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo of 

Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, 

New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New 

Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico; 

Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo 

of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San 

Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San 

Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of 

Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa 

Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa 

Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, 

New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New 

Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; 

Santo Domingo Pueblo; Ysleta del Sur 

Pueblo; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 

Reservation, New Mexico. 

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 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 in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after March 29, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

Fort Lewis College 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. Fort Lewis College 

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. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037473; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

University of California, Riverside, 

Riverside, 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 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 Ventura, CA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains 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. 

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. 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. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, one individual were removed 

from Ventura County, CA. The cranium 

of 1 young adult female Native 

American individual was discovered in 

a cave in Ventura County by a group of 

young boys participating in the 

‘‘Trailfinders’’ camp. The cranium was 

housed at the University of California 

James San Jacinto Mountain Natural 

Reserve in a cabinet with other mammal 

crania since its founding in 1966 by 

Harry James who was also the founder 

of Trailfinders. The cabinet and its 

contents were reportedly given to the 

reserve by the Department of Biology at 

the University of California, Riverside 

(UCR). Through conversations with 

previous reserve directors, UCR 

NAGPRA Staff found that there was an 

oral history among individuals (now in 

their 80s and 90s) who participated in 

the Trailfinders organization about how 

the cranium was discovered. Former 

director of the James Reserve, Michael 

Hamilton, indicated that he was told by 

former Trailfinders that the cranium 

was found in a cave in Ventura County 

during a hike. Through speaking with 

other former members, UCR NAGPRA 

Staff discovered that the Trailfinders 

owned property on Sespe Creek in 

Ventura County north of Filmore where 

they often had weekend camping trips. 

They typically hiked upstream (north) 

on Sespe Creek because that was the 

only direction they could go for a hike. 

Living Trailfinders who have spoken 

with UCR NAGPRA Staff suggested that 

it is likely that the cranium was found 

in the Sespe Creek drainage in Ventura 

County during one such hike. 

Additional post-cranial human 

remains representing one young adult 

female Native American individual 

were reported by the University of 

California, Riverside’s Department of 

Evolution Ecology & Organismal Biology 

(EEOB) to the UCR NAGPRA Program. 

The department staff indicated that the 

human remains, which were stored in a 

cardboard box labeled ‘‘Indian Bones’’, 

had been in the department since at 

least before the 1990s. Despite an 

exhaustive attempt to contact previous 

professors and department chairs, no 

information was found by the NAGPRA 

Program Staff to indicate how the 

human remains became part of the 

department’s collections. The cabinet 

which the human remains were stored 

in contained the post-cranial remains of 

other vertebrate mammals. Examination 

of the human remains by an osteologist 

determined that there were also a few 


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