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and 162⁄3 percent, respectively. The 

lessee paid the required $500.00 

administrative fee for the reinstatement 

of the lease and $166.00 cost for 

publishing this Notice in the Federal 

Register. The lessee met all the 

requirements for reinstatement of the 

lease as set out in Section 31(d) and (e) 

of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 (30 

U.S.C. 188). We are proposing to 

reinstate leases NMNM 101579 and 

NMNM 101580, effective the date of 

termination, December 1, 2008, under 

the original terms and conditions of the 

lease and the increased rental and 

royalty rates cited above. 

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number, e-mail address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Dated: February 27, 2009. 

Margie Dupre, 

Land Law Examiner, Fluids Adjudication 

Team. 

[FR Doc. E9–4737 Filed 3–4–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Intent to Repatriate a Cultural 

Item: Paul H. Karshner Memorial 

Museum, Puyallup, WA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

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 a cultural item in the 

possession of the Paul H. Karshner 

Memorial Museum, Puyallup, WA, that 

meets the definition of ‘‘unassociated 

funerary object’’ 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 cultural 

item. The National Park Service is not 

responsible for the determinations in 

this notice. 

At an unknown time, one cultural 

item was removed from a grave near 

Vantage, Kittitas County, WA. In 1931, 

the one unassociated funerary object 

was donated to the Paul H. Karshner 

Memorial Museum by the museum’s 

founder, Dr. Warner Karshner 

(Accession 1931.01). Museum records 

state the cultural item is an 

unassociated funerary object since it 

was found in a grave. The unassociated 

funerary object is a necklace that is 30 

inches in length, and made of discshaped bone and red glass Cornaline 

d’Aleppo beads (Catalog Number 1– 

607). 

Published ethnographic 

documentation indicates that the 

Vantage, WA, area is within the 

traditional territory of the MosesColumbia or Sinkiuse, Wanapum, and 

Yakama peoples (Ray 1936, Spier 1936). 

Descendants of the Moses-Columbia, 

Sinkiuse, Wanapum, and Yakama are 

members of the Confederated Tribes of 

the Colville Reservation, Washington, 

and Confederated Tribes and Bands of 

the Yakama Nation, Washington, as well 

as the Wanapum Band, a non-Federally 

recognized Indian group. The 

Confederated Tribes and Bands of the 

Yakama Nation, Washington; 

Confederated Tribes of the Colville 

Reservation, Washington; and the 

Wanapum Band, a non-Federally 

recognized Indian group, are jointly 

claiming this unassociated funerary 

object from the Vantage area. 

Officials of the Paul H. Karshner 

Memorial Museum have determined 

that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(B), 

the one cultural item described above is 

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. Officials of the Paul H. 

Karshner Memorial Museum also have 

determined that, 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 object and the 

Confederated Tribes and Bands of the 

Yakama Nation, Washington; 

Confederated Tribes of the Colville 

Reservation, Washington; and the 

Wanapum Band, a non-Federally 

recognized Indian group. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the unassociated funerary 

object should contact Dr. Jay Reifel, 

Assistant Superintendent, telephone 

(253) 840–8971, or Ms. Beth Bestrom, 

Museum Curator, telephone (253) 841– 

8748, Paul H. Karshner Memorial 

Museum, 309 4th St. NE, Puyallup, WA 

98372, before April 6, 2009. 

Repatriation of the unassociated 

funerary object to the Confederated 

Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, 

Washington; Confederated Tribes of the 

Colville Reservation, Washington; and 

the Wanapum Band, a non-Federally 

recognized Indian group, may proceed 

after that date if no additional claimants 

come forward. 

The Paul H. Karshner Memorial 

Museum is responsible for notifying the 

Confederated Tribes and Bands of the 

Yakama Nation, Washington; 

Confederated Tribes of the Colville 

Reservation, Washington; and the 

Wanapum Band, a non-Federally 

recognized Indian group, that this notice 

has been published. 

Dated: January 26, 2009. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. E9–4682 Filed 3–5–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Intent to Repatriate a Cultural 

Item: U.S. Department of Energy, 

Richland Operations Office, Richland, 

WA and Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of 

Anthropology, University of California, 

Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

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 a cultural item in the 

control of the U.S. Department of 

Energy, Richland Operations Office, 

Richland, WA, and in the physical 

custody of the Phoebe A. Hearst 

Museum of Anthropology (Hearst 

Museum), University of California, 

Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, that meets the 

definition of ‘‘unassociated funerary 

object’’ 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 cultural 

item. The National Park Service is not 

responsible for the determinations in 

this notice. 

On an unknown date, one 

unassociated funerary object was 

removed from site 45BN157, Jaeger’s 

Island, located on the U.S. Department 

of Energy’s Hanford Site on the south 

bank of the Columbia River, Benton 


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County, WA, by Francis Riddell, and 

accessioned into the Hearst Museum in 

1951. The one unassociated funerary 

object is a bead (catalog 2–40752). 

Museum documentation indicates 

that the bead is from a talus burial, and 

that the museum does not hold human 

remains from this burial. This type of 

cultural item is consistent with other 

funerary objects found in the Columbia 

River area during occupation by the 

Yakama, Walla Walla, and Wanapum 

groups. 

Ethnographic documentation 

indicates that the present-day location 

of the Hanford Site, Benton County, 

WA, is located within an overlapping 

aboriginal territory of the Yakama, 

Walla Walla, and Wanapum groups. The 

descendants of the Yakama, Walla 

Walla, and Wanapum are represented 

today by the Confederated Tribes and 

Bands of the Yakama Nation, 

Washington; Confederated Tribes of the 

Umatilla Indian Reservation, Oregon; 

and the Wanapum Band, a nonFederally recognized Indian group. The 

Confederated Tribes of the Colville 

Reservation, Washington, and Nez Perce 

Tribe, Idaho are also known to have 

used the area routinely. 

Officials of the Department of Energy 

and the Hearst Museum have 

determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 

3001 (3)(B), the one cultural item 

described above is 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 is believed, by a 

preponderance of the evidence, to have 

been removed from a specific burial site 

of a Native American individual. 

Officials of the Department of Energy 

and the Hearst Museum also have 

determined that, 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 object and the 

Confederated Tribes of the Colville 

Reservation, Washington; Confederated 

Tribes of the Umatilla Indian 

Reservation, Oregon; Confederated 

Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, 

Washington; and Nez Perce Tribe, 

Idaho. Furthermore, officials of the 

Department of Energy and the Hearst 

Museum have determined that there is 

a cultural relationship between the 

unassociated funerary object and the 

Wanapum Band, a non-Federally 

recognized Indian group. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the unassociated funerary 

object should contact Annabelle 

Rodriguez, U.S. Department of Energy, 

Cultural/Historic Resources Program, 

Richland Operations Office, 825 Jadwin 

Avenue, MSIN A5–15, Richland, WA 

99352, telephone (509) 372–0277, before 

April 6, 2009. Repatriation of the 

unassociated funerary object to the 

Confederated Tribes of the Colville 

Reservation, Washington; Confederated 

Tribes of the Umatilla Indian 

Reservation, Oregon; Confederated 

Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, 

Washington; Nez Perce Tribe, Idaho; 

and Wanapum Band, a non-Federally 

recognized Indian group, may proceed 

after that date if no additional claimants 

come forward. The Confederated Tribes 

of the Colville Reservation, Washington; 

Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla 

Indian Reservation, Oregon; 

Confederated Tribes and Bands of the 

Yakama Nation, Washington; Nez Perce 

Tribe, Idaho; and Wanapum Band, a 

non-Federally recognized Indian group, 

are claiming jointly all cultural items 

from the Hanford area. 

The Department of Energy, Richland 

Operations Office is responsible for 

notifying the Confederated Tribes of the 

Colville Reservation, Washington; 

Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla 

Indian Reservation, Oregon; 

Confederated Tribes and Bands of the 

Yakama Nation, Washington; Nez Perce 

Tribe, Idaho; and Wanapum Band, a 

non-Federally recognized Indian group, 

that this notice has been published. 

Dated: January 26, 2009. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. E9–4670 Filed 3–4–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Southwest Museum of the 

American Indian, Autry National 

Center, Los Angeles, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

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 in the 

possession of the Southwest Museum of 

the American Indian, Autry National 

Center, Los Angeles, CA, 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 cultural 

items. The National Park Service is not 

responsible for the determinations in 

this notice. 

A detailed assessment of the 

unassociated funerary objects was made 

by the Southwest Museum of the 

American Indian, Autry National Center 

professional staff in consultation with 

representatives of the Picayune 

Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians of 

California; Santa Rosa Indian 

Community of the Santa Rosa 

Rancheria, California; Table Mountain 

Rancheria of California; Tule River 

Indian Tribe of the Tule River 

Reservation of California; and 

Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of 

the Tuolumne Rancheria of California. 

In 1935, unassociated funerary objects 

were removed from site P–15–000116 

(CA-KER–116) in Elk Hills Cemetery, 

Buena Vista Lake, Kern County, CA, by 

Edwin F. Walker, Southwest Museum 

Research Associate, and were donated 

to the museum that same year. The 

5,508 unassociated funerary objects (207 

inventory numbers) are 2 abalone shell 

containers; 2 abraders; 1 arrow 

straightener; 36 arrow points (3 arrow 

points, 5 chalcedony, 4 chalcedony and 

chert, 6 obsidian, 1 red carnelian, 5 

stone, 12 obsidian and chalcedony); 2 

asphaltum pieces; 3 balls (1 granite, 1 

sandstone, and 1 wood); 9 basket 

fragments, 1 bag with tiny beads and 

fragments and 5,156 individual beads 

(15 clam shell beads, 10 pismo clam 

shell beads, 4 Amethystine beads, 2,010 

trade beads, 1 serpetine bead, 51 steatite 

beads, 2 stone beads, 22 red and white 

beads, 307 Olivella beads, 365 Red 

Beads, 2,065 blue beads, 42 black beads, 

113 Green Beads, 111 white, 1 yellow, 

19 Amber beads, 3 pink beads, 3 

miscellaneous beads, 1 unknown bead, 

3 soapstone beads, 1 crystal beads, 2 

shell beads, and 5 tubular beads); 2 

boiling stones; 1 glass bottle neck; 3 

bowls (1 sandstone, 1 stone, and 

1seatite); 20 bowl fragments (5 steatite, 

7 sandstone, 1 wooden, and 7 

soapstone); 1 brush; 1 bull roarer 

fragment; 10 buttons (8 brass and 2 

metal); 2 charmstones; 1 chert 

chalcedony; 2 china pitchers; 1 china 

saucer; 5 bird claws; 1 comal; 2 cooking 

stones; 3 crosses (2 metal crosses and 1 

silver cross); 1 crystal; 2 crystal and 

mica fragments; 5 quartz crystal 

fragments; 8 dice; 43 pieces of fabric 

with tiny fragments; 1 piece of fur; 11 

gaming piece fragments; 6 gaming stick 

fragments; 5 glass fragments; 6 glass 

bottle fragments; 1 abalone gorget; 1 kilt 

fragment with tiny fragments; 7 knives 

(1 iron blade knife, 6 chalcedony); 7 

leather fragments; 2 mica fragments; 1 


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