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conduct an archaeological survey and 

impact mitigation along 31 miles of the 

proposed sewer pipeline right-of-way 

and two treatment plant locales located 

on the Lummi Indian Reservation. Work 

began under the direction of Dr. Garland 

Grabert (WWU) in December of 1980 

and continued until the summer of 

1982. 

During this work, numerous 

archaeological sites were recorded, and 

materials were collected from both 

excavation and monitoring activities 

(Grabert and Griffin 1983, 

Archaeological Investigation on Lummi 

Peninsula, Whatcom County, 

Washington, Reports in Archaeology 

No. 18, Department of Anthropology, 

Western Washington University, 

Bellingham, Washington). No known 

individuals were identified. No 

hazardous chemicals are known to have 

been used to treat the human remains 

while in the custody of WWU. 

Cultural Affiliation 

Based on the information available 

and the results of consultation, cultural 

affiliation is clearly identified by the 

information available about the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

described in this notice. 

Determinations 

The WWU has determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of seven individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The eight objects described in this 

notice are reasonably believed to have 

been placed intentionally with or near 

individual human remains at the time of 

death or later as part of the death rite 

or ceremony. 

• There is a connection between the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects described in this notice and the 

Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation 

and the Nooksack Indian Tribe. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects in this notice must be sent to the 

authorized representative identified in 

this notice under 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 

an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization with cultural affiliation. 

Repatriation of the human remains 

and associated funerary objects 

described in this notice to a requestor 

may occur on or after October 21, 2024. 

If competing requests for repatriation 

are received, the WWU 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 WWU is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes and Native 

Hawaiian organizations identified in 

this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.10. 

Dated: September 12, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–21546 Filed 9–19–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0038745; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intended Disposition: U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Reclamation, Missouri Basin Region, 

Nebraska-Kansas Area Office, 

McCook, NE 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Reclamation, Nebraska-Kansas Area 

Office (Reclamation Nebraska-Kansas 

Area Office) intends to carry out the 

disposition of human remains and 

associated funerary objects removed 

from Federal or Tribal lands to the 

lineal descendants, Indian Tribe, or 

Native Hawaiian organization with 

priority for disposition in this notice. 

DATES: Disposition of the human 

remains and cultural items in this notice 

may occur on or after October 21, 2024. 

If no claim for disposition is received by 

September 22, 2025, the human remains 

and cultural items in this notice will 

become unclaimed human remains and 

cultural items. 

ADDRESSES: Send written claims for 

disposition of the human remains and 

cultural items identified in this notice to 

Catherine Griffin, Bureau of 

Reclamation, Nebraska-Kansas Area 

Office, 1706 West 3rd Street, McCook, 

NE 69001, telephone (308) 345–8324, 

email cgriffin@usbr.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 Reclamation 

Nebraska-Kansas Area Office, and 

additional information on the human 

remains and cultural items in this 

notice, including the results of 

consultation, can be found in the related 

records. The National Park Service is 

not responsible for the identifications in 

this notice. 

Abstract of Information Available 

Based on the information available, 

human remains representing, at least, 14 

individuals have been reasonably 

identified. The 10 associated funerary 

objects are one lot of bracelets, three lots 

of ceramic sherds, one lot of chipped 

stone debitage, two stone scraper tools, 

one stone tool fragment, one projectile 

point fragment, and one lot of animal 

bone. During a period between 1992 to 

2020, the human remains and associated 

funerary objects were discovered and 

removed from federal lands in Jewell, 

Mitchell, and Norton Counties, KS, and 

Frontier and Greeley Counties, NE. 

Determinations 

The Reclamation Nebraska-Kansas 

Area Office has determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of 14 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The 10 objects described in this 

notice are reasonably believed to have 

been placed intentionally with or near 

individual human remains at the time of 

death or later as part of the death rite 

or ceremony. 

• The Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; 

Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort 

Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; and 

the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes 

(Wichita, Keechi, Waco, & Tawakonie), 

Oklahoma have priority for disposition 

of the human remains and cultural 

items described in this notice. 

Claims for Disposition 

Written claims for disposition of the 

human remains and cultural items in 

this notice must be sent to the 

appropriate official identified in this 

notice under ADDRESSES. If no claim for 

disposition is received by September 22, 

2025, the human remains and cultural 

items in this notice will become 

unclaimed human remains and cultural 

items. Claims for disposition may be 

submitted by: 


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1. Any lineal descendant, Indian 

Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization 

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 

they have priority for disposition. 

Disposition of the human remains and 

cultural items in this notice may occur 

on or after October 21, 2024. If 

competing claims for disposition are 

received, the Reclamation NebraskaKansas Area Office must determine the 

most appropriate claimant prior to 

disposition. Requests for joint 

disposition of the human remains and 

cultural items are considered a single 

request and not competing requests. The 

Reclamation Nebraska-Kansas Area 

Office is responsible for sending a copy 

of this notice to the lineal descendants, 

Indian Tribes, and Native Hawaiian 

organizations identified in this notice 

and to any other consulting parties. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3002, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.7. 

Dated: September 12, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–21545 Filed 9–19–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0038740; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intended Repatriation: 

California Department of 

Transportation, Bishop, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), California 

Department of Transportation (Caltrans) 

intends to repatriate certain cultural 

items that meet the definition of 

unassociated funerary objects or objects 

of cultural patrimony and that have a 

cultural affiliation with the Indian 

Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations 

in this notice. 

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 

in this notice may occur on or after 

October 21, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Jennifer Blake, Caltrans, 500 

South Main Street, Bishop, CA 93514, 

telephone (760) 937–3894, email 

jennifer.blake@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 Caltrans and 

additional information on the 

determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in the summary or related records. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Abstract of Information Available 

A total of 1,864 cultural items have 

been requested for repatriation. The 735 

unassociated funerary objects are 

debitage, bifaces, flake tools, faunal 

bone fragments, groundstone fragments, 

ceramic sherds, beads, and modern/ 

historic items. The 1,129 objects of 

cultural patrimony are debitage, 

modified bone, projectile points, 

bifaces, flake tools, faunal bone, cores, 

groundstone fragments, ceramic sherds, 

paleobotanical samples, and modern/ 

historic items. These cultural items are 

housed at three repositories under the 

following accession numbers: at the 

University of California, Davis, Acc 

406–19 from site CA–INY–371/H; at 

California State University, Bakersfield, 

Acc 5953–1 from site CA–INY–5953H, 

Acc 5958 from site CA–INY–5958/H, 

Acc 5964 from site CA–INY–5964, Acc 

5966 from site CA–INY–5966, Acc 5981 

from site CA–INY–5981, Acc 5984 from 

site CA–INY–5984, and Acc 5990 from 

site CA–INY–5990/H; and at the 

University of California, Riverside, Acc 

308 from site CA–INY–5961/H, Acc 309 

from site CA–INY–5962/H, Acc 311 

from site CA–INY–5969/5971/H, Acc 

312 from site CA–INY–5990/H, Acc 265 

from site CA–INY–7716, Acc 281 from 

site CA–INY–7746, and Acc 313 from 

site CA–INY–7746. The collections are 

from sites located in the Owens Valley 

of the Eastern Sierra region of 

California, near Owens Lake. The 

collections were recovered from 

Caltrans right of way between 1993– 

2011 during a surface or subsurface 

archaeological investigation in 

compliance with state and federal 

environmental laws in support of 

Caltrans’ Olancha-Cartago Four Lane 

Project. Objects in these collections are 

culturally affiliated with the Paiute and 

Western Shoshone. Modern-day tribes 

with ancestral ties to this area include 

the Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone 

Reservation, the Big Pine Paiute Tribe of 

the Owens Valley, the Bishop Paiute 

Tribe, the Fort Independence Indian 

Community of Paiutes, and the Death 

Valley Timbisha-Shoshone Tribe. To the 

best of Caltrans’ knowledge, the cultural 

items in this archaeological collection 

have not been treated with hazardous 

substances. 

Determinations 

Caltrans has determined that: 

• The 735 unassociated funerary 

objects described in this notice are 

reasonably believed to have been placed 

intentionally with or near human 

remains, and are connected, either at the 

time of death or later as part of the death 

rite or ceremony of a Native American 

culture according to the Native 

American traditional knowledge of a 

lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or 

Native Hawaiian organization. The 

unassociated funerary objects have been 

identified by a preponderance of the 

evidence as related to human remains, 

specific individuals, or families, or 

removed from a specific burial site or 

burial area of an individual or 

individuals with cultural affiliation to 

an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization. 

• The 1,129 objects of cultural 

patrimony described in this notice have 

ongoing historical, traditional, or 

cultural importance central to the 

Native American group, including any 

constituent sub-group (such as a band, 

clan, lineage, ceremonial society, or 

other subdivision), according to the 

Native American traditional knowledge 

of an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization. 

• There is a reasonable connection 

between the cultural items described in 

this notice and the Lone Pine PaiuteShoshone Tribe. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Additional, written requests for 

repatriation of the cultural items in this 

notice must be sent to the authorized 

representative identified in this notice 

under 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 October 21, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

Caltrans 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. Caltrans is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes and Native 

Hawaiian organizations identified in 


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