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Applicant: Wildlife in Need & Wildlife 

in Deed, Inc., Charlestown, IN; PRT– 

51552B 

The applicant requests a captive-bred 

wildlife registration under 50 CFR 

17.21(g) for the following species to 

enhance the species’ propagation or 

survival. This notification covers 

activities to be conducted by the 

applicant over a 5-year period. 

Species 

Black and white ruffed lemur (Varecia 

variegata) 

Red ruffed lemur (Varecia rubra) 

Brown lemur (Eulemur fulvus) 

Ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) 

Cottontop tamarin (Saguinus oedipus) 

Lar gibbon (Hylobates lar) 

Leopard (Panthera pardus) 

Multiple Applicants 

The following applicants each request 

a permit to import the sport-hunted 

trophy of one male bontebok 

(Damaliscus pygargus pygargus) culled 

from a captive herd maintained under 

the management program of the 

Republic of South Africa, for the 

purpose of enhancement of the survival 

of the species. 

Applicant: Nello Cooper, Fairbanks, AK; 

PRT–46638B 

Applicant: Albert Seeno, Concord, CA; 

PRT–53980B 

Applicant: Janice Simpson, Fort Worth, 

TX; PRT–56026B 

Applicant: James DeBlasio, Boise, ID; 

PRT–55130B 

Brenda Tapia, 

Program Analyst/Data Administrator, Branch 

of Permits, Division of Management 

Authority. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLMTC 00900.L16100000.DP0000] 

Notice of Public Meeting, Eastern 

Montana Resource Advisory Council 

Meeting 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act (FLPMA) and the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM) Eastern 

Montana Resource Advisory Council 

(RAC) will meet as indicated below. 

DATES: The Eastern Montana Resource 

Advisory Council meeting will be held 

on March 12, 2015 in Billings, Montana. 

The meeting will start at 8:00 a.m. and 

adjourn at approximately 4:30 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Billings Hampton Inn, 5110 

Southgate Drive, Billings, MT 59101. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mark Jacobsen, Public Affairs Specialist, 

BLM Eastern Montana/Dakotas District, 

111 Garryowen Road, Miles City, 

Montana, 59301; (406) 233–2831; 

mjacobse@blm.gov. Persons who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–677–8339 

to contact the above individual during 

normal business hours. The FIRS is 

available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week 

to leave a message or a question with 

the above individual. You will receive 

a reply during normal business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 15- 

member Eastern Montana Resource 

Advisory Council advises the Secretary 

of the Interior through the BLM on a 

variety of planning and management 

issues associated with public land 

management in Montana. At this 

meeting the agenda will include: RAC 

member and BLM staff introductions, a 

Pumpkin Creek subcommittee progress 

report, a report on the February RAC 

chair meeting, individual RAC member 

reports to BLM managers, Eastern 

Montana/Dakotas District, Miles City 

Field Office and Billings Field Office 

progress reports and other issues the 

RAC may choose to discuss during the 

course of the meeting. This meeting is 

open to the public and will have time 

allocated for hearing public comments. 

The public may also present written 

comments to the council. Depending on 

the number of persons wishing to 

comment and the time available, the 

time for individual oral comments may 

be limited. Individuals who plan to 

attend and need special assistance, such 

as sign language interpretation, tour 

transportation or other reasonable 

accommodations should contact the 

BLM as provided above. 

Authority: 43 CFR 1784.4–2. 

Diane M. Friez, 

Eastern Montana/Dakotas District Manager. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–17330; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Beneski Museum of Natural 

History, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Beneski Museum of 

Natural History, Amherst College 

(formerly the Pratt Museum of Natural 

History), in consultation with the 

appropriate Indian tribes or Native 

Hawaiian organizations, has determined 

that the cultural items listed in this 

notice meet the definition of 

unassociated funerary objects. Lineal 

descendants or representatives of any 

Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to claim these cultural items 

should submit a written request to the 

Beneski Museum of Natural History, 

Amherst College. If no additional 

claimants come forward, transfer of 

control of the cultural items to the lineal 

descendants, Indian tribes, or Native 

Hawaiian organizations stated in this 

notice may proceed. 

DATES: Lineal descendants or 

representatives of any Indian tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

claim these cultural items should 

submit a written request with 

information in support of the claim to 

the Beneski Museum of Natural History, 

Amherst College at the address in this 

notice by March 9, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Tekla A. Harms, NAGPRA 

Coordinator, Beneski Museum of 

Natural History, Amherst College, 

Amherst, MA 01002, telephone (413) 

542–2233, email taharms@amherst.edu. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

here given in accordance with the 

Native American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 

3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural 

items under the control of the Beneski 

Museum of Natural History, Amherst 

College that meet the definition of 

unassociated funerary objects under 25 

U.S.C. 3001. 

This notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 

U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in 

this notice are the sole responsibility of 

the museum, institution, or Federal 

agency that has control of the Native 

American cultural items. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 


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History and Description of the Cultural 

Items 

The Beneski Museum of Natural 

History, Amherst College (Beneski 

Museum) holds 118 cultural items that 

are documented to have been, or can 

reasonably be inferred to have been 

unassociated funerary objects that were 

removed from the state of Florida. These 

cultural items came to the Beneski 

Museum at several different times and 

through different avenues. Information 

on these cultural items comes solely 

from the hand-written ledger titled 

‘‘Catalogue of the Gilbert Museum of 

Indian Relics in Amherst College’’ (here 

referred to as the ‘‘Gilbert Catalogue’’) 

which opens in approximately 1860 and 

closes in approximately 1915. In nearly 

all cases, the information in this record 

is limited to the state of origin of an item 

but may include a more specific locale 

and/or the name of the donor or 

collector. Cultural affinities are not 

given. Entries are not dated. 

The Beneski Museum holds 16 

cultural items received from Mr. Warren 

K. Moorehead of Andover, MA, 

described as ‘‘found in mounds in 

Florida.’’ These cultural items are: One 

conch shell ladle; two shell spoons(?); 

three shell pendants or sinkers; three 

whorled implements from the spindle of 

large coiled shells; three large stone 

celts; and four clay pots, killed, 

fragmented, and reconstructed, 

including one from near Potter’s Bar, St. 

George’s Sound, Franklin County, FL 

and one from near Pearl Bayou, St. 

Andrew’s Bay, Washington County, FL. 

The Beneski Museum holds 37 

cultural items obtained from Clarence B. 

Moore of Philadelphia, most—if not 

all—received in 1872. These cultural 

items are: Five stone sinkers and two 

shell sinkers from 3 miles east of Marco, 

Lee County, FL; one shell celt from near 

Marco, Lee County, FL; six stone sinkers 

or pendants, five shell sinkers or 

pendants, and five shell beads from 

Marco Island, Ten Thousand Islands, 

Lee County, FL; five stone sinkers or 

pendants, five whorled shell sinkers or 

pendants, one awl of whorled shell, one 

shell gorget, and one large shell ring 

from Addison’s Key, near Marco, Lee 

County, FL. Items received from C.B. 

Moore have only Gilbert Catalogue 

collection numbers. They do not bear, 

nor is there a record of, any of Moore’s 

original collection numbers or his field 

information; the only known 

provenience of these cultural items is 

what is given in the Gilbert Catalogue. 

Nevertheless, many of these cultural 

items are very similar to those 

illustrated in Moore’s publications on 

his Florida excavations in which such 

cultural items are documented as having 

been removed from mounds. 

The Beneski Museum holds nine 

stone points purchased from Professor 

C.U. Shepard (of Amherst College) in 

1877. They are listed only as having 

originated in Florida. 

The Beneski Museum holds ten 

cultural items from known and 

unknown sources, including one pottery 

fragment from East Florida obtained 

from a G.J. Lebasson; five fragments of 

pottery from Laurel Grove, St. Johns 

River, East Florida (Clay County, FL) 

from an unknown source; three 

fragments of pottery from Ormond, 

Florida (Volusia County, FL) from an 

unknown source; and one pottery pipe 

bowl from a ‘‘shell heap’’ in Ormond, 

FL (Volusia County, FL), donor or 

collector unknown. 

The Beneski Museum holds four stone 

tools identified as a point, a scraper, a 

drill, and a knife whose provenience is 

unknown, except that the Gilbert 

Catalogue indicates they are from 

Florida. 

The Beneski Museum holds 42 

uncataloged shell beads that have been 

stored with cataloged shell beads and 

may have been obtained either from 

W.K. Moorehead or C.B. Moore. 

Multiple lines of evidence—guided by 

tribal consultations—including 

geographic, oral tradition, historical, 

and aboriginal land claims, demonstrate 

a shared group identity between these 

118 cultural items and the modern-day 

Miccosukee Tribe of Indians; Seminole 

Tribe of Florida (previously listed as the 

Seminole Tribe of Florida (Dania, Big 

Cypress, Brighton, Hollywood & Tampa 

Reservations)); and The Seminole 

Nation of Oklahoma. Consultation with 

the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians 

indicates that the kinds of cultural items 

listed here are traditionally associated 

with deceased individuals and would 

not have been otherwise discarded. The 

cultural items known to have been 

removed from mounds do not differ 

from those for which provenience is not 

as explicitly documented. It is 

reasonable to conclude that all 118 

cultural items listed here were intended 

to rest as funerary objects and were 

obtained from burial mounds. 

Determinations Made by the Beneski 

Museum of Natural History, Amherst 

College 

Officials of the Beneski Museum of 

Natural History, Amherst College have 

determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), 

the 118 cultural items described above 

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 and 

are believed, by a preponderance of the 

evidence, to have been removed from a 

specific burial site of a Native American 

individual. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there 

is a relationship of shared group 

identity that can be reasonably traced 

between the unassociated funerary 

objects and the Miccosukee Tribe of 

Indians. 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

Lineal descendants or representatives 

of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to claim these cultural items 

should submit a written request with 

information in support of the claim to 

Tekla Harms, NAGPRA Coordinator, 

Beneski Museum of Natural History, 

Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002, 

telephone (413) 542–2233, email 

taharms@amherst.edu, by March 9, 

2015. After that date, if no additional 

claimants have come forward, transfer 

of control of the unassociated funerary 

objects to the Miccosukee Tribe of 

Indians may proceed. 

The Beneski Museum of Natural 

History, Amherst College is responsible 

for notifying representatives of the 

Caddo Nation of Oklahoma; Catawba 

Indian Nation (aka Catawba Tribe of 

South Carolina); Cherokee Nation; 

Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana; 

Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; Eastern 

Band of Cherokee Indians; Jena Band of 

Choctaw Indians; Miccosukee Tribe of 

Indians; Mississippi Band of Choctaw 

Indians; Seminole Tribe of Florida 

(previously listed as the Seminole Tribe 

of Florida (Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton, 

Hollywood & Tampa Reservations)); The 

Chickasaw Nation; The Choctaw Nation 

of Oklahoma; The Modoc Tribe of 

Oklahoma; The Muscogee (Creek) 

Nation; The Osage Nation (previously 

listed as the Osage Tribe); The Quapaw 

Tribe of Indians; The Seminole Nation 

of Oklahoma; United Keetoowah Band 

of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma; and 

the Wyandotte Nation that this notice 

has been published. 

Dated: December 16, 2014. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Acting Program Manager, National NAGPRA 

Program. 

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