75954 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 234 / Tuesday, December 5, 2000 / Notices

Dated: November 9, 2000.

Carolita U. Kallaur,

Associate Director for Offshore Minerals

Management.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Notice of Availability of Draft Director’s

Order Concerning National Park

Service Policies and Procedures for

Social Science

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

SUMMARY: The National Park Service

(NPS) has prepared a Director’s Order

setting forth its policies and procedures

related to social science. When adopted,

the policies and procedures will apply

to all units of the national park system.

DATES: Written comments will be

accepted until January 15, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Draft Director’s Order #78 is

available on the Internet at http://

www.nps.gov/refdesk/DOrders/

index.htm. Requests for copies and

written comments should be sent to Dr.

Gary Machlis, NPS Visiting Chief Social

Scientist, Social Science Program,

National Park Service, 1849 C Street,

NW (3127), Washington, DC 20240, or to

his Internet address:

garylmachlis@nps.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.

Gary Machlis at garylmachlis@nps.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NPS

is updating its current system of internal

policies. When these documents contain

new policy or procedural requirements

that may affect parties outside the NPS,

they are first made available for public

review and comment before being

adopted. This draft of Director’s Order

#78 covers social science topics such as

permits, data collection and Paperwork

Reduction Act compliance, ethical

guidelines, and roles and

responsibilities related to social science

in the National Park Service.

Individual respondents may request

that we withhold their home address

from the administrative record, which

we will honor to the extent allowable by

law. There also may be circumstances in

which we would withhold from the

record a respondent’s identity, as

allowable by law. If you wish us to

withhold your name and/or address,

you must state this prominently at the

beginning of your comment.

Dated: November 27, 2000.

Michael Soukup,

Associate Director, Natural Resource

Stewardship and Science.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Notice of Inventory Completion for

Native American Human Remains and

Associated Funerary Objects in the

Possession of the National Museum of

Health and Medicine, Armed Forces

Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC

AGENCY: National Park Service

ACTION: Notice

Notice is hereby given in accordance

with provisions of the Native American

Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

(NAGPRA), 43 CFR 10.9, of the

completion of an inventory of human

remains and associated funerary objects

in the possession of the National

Museum of Health and Medicine,

Armed Forces Institute of Pathology,

Washington, DC.

This notice is published as part of the

National Park Service’s administrative

responsibilities under NAGPRA, 43 CFR

10.2 (c). The determinations within this

notice are the sole responsibility of the

museum, institution, or Federal agency

that has control of these Native

American human remains and

associated funerary objects. The

National Park Service is not responsible

for the determinations within this

notice.

A detailed assessment of the human

remains was made by National Museum

of Health and Medicine professional

staff in consultation with

representatives of the CheyenneArapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and the

Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the

Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation,

Montana.

In 1879, human remains representing

one individual were sent to the Army

Medical Museum (now the National

Museum of Health and Medicine,

Armed Forces Institute of Pathology) by

U.S. Army Assistant Surgeon A. Girard

following the removal of bone fragments

from an individual during medical

treatment. This individual has been

identified as Black Horse, a Cheyenne

man. No associated funerary objects are

present.

Accession records from the National

Museum of Health and Medicine,

Armed Forces Institute of Pathology

indicate that these human remains are

those of Black Horse, a Cheyenne man.

Early in 1879, Black Horse was

wounded by a settler on the ‘‘Niobrara’’

(river) and subsequently captured with

Little Wolf’s band and treated by U.S.

Army surgeons at Fort Keogh, Custer

County, MT. Biological evidence of the

human remains is consistent with the

accession records.

On October 6, 2000, Gilbert Brady,

Sr., as the great-grandson and

authorized representative of the

descendants of Black Horse, claimed

Black Horse’s remains as a lineal

descendent, tracing his ancestry directly

and without interruption by means of

the traditional kinship system of the

Northern Cheyenne. The Northern

Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern

Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana

supports this claim.

Based on the above-mentioned

information, officials of the National

Museum of Health and Medicine,

Armed Forces Institute of Pathology,

have determined that, pursuant to 43

CFR 10.2 (d)(1), the human remains

listed above represent the physical

remains of one individual of Native

American ancestry. Officials of the

National Museum of Health and

Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of

Pathology, have determined that,

pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (b)(1), Gilbert

Brady, Sr. can trace his ancestry directly

and without interruption by means of

the traditional kinship system of the

Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the

Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation,

Montana to the human remains of Black

Horse. This notice has been sent to

Gilbert Brady, Sr., Annie Brady, Anne

Limberhand, Genevieve Bearquiver, and

officials of the Cheyenne-Arapaho

Tribes of Oklahoma and the Northern

Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern

Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana.

Any other individuals who believe

themselves to be lineal descendants of

Black Horse should contact Lenore

Barbian, Ph.D., Anatomical Collections

Manager, National Museum of Health

and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of

Pathology, Walter Reed Army Medical

Center, Building 54, Washington, DC

20306–6000, telephone (202) 782–2203,

facsimile (202) 782–3573, before January

4, 2001. Repatriation of the human

remains to Mr. Brady may begin after

that date if no additional claimants

come forward.

Dated: November 17, 2000.

John Robbins,

Assistant Director, Cultural Resources

Stewardship and Partnerships.

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