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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 234 (Thursday, December 5, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 96676-96677]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-28500]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039145; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]

Notice of Proposed Transfer or Reinterment: Monterey Peninsula 
College, Monterey, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Monterey Peninsula College proposes to 
reinter human remains listed in a Notice of Inventory Completion 
published in the Federal Register on May 13, 2024.

DATES: Reinterment of the human remains in this notice may occur on or 
after January 6, 2025.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jon Knolle, Vice President of Academic 
Affairs, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA 93940, telephone 
(831) 646-3030, email [email protected]. Individuals who are deaf, 
deafblind, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability may dial 711 
(TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access telecommunications relay services. 
Individuals outside the United States should use the relay services 
offered within their country to make international calls to the point-
of-contact in the United States.

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 
Monterey Peninsula College, and additional information on the 
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, 
can be found in its inventory or related records. The National Park 
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.

Abstract of Information Available

    This notice follows publication of a Notice of Inventory Completion 
in the Federal Register (89 FR 41465-41466, May 13, 2024). Human 
remains representing, at least, one individual has been identified. At 
unknown dates, the human remains, which consist of one skull, multiple 
teeth, and multiple bones and bone fragments, from unknown locations, 
likely in Monterey, CA, and deposited at the Monterey Peninsula College 
Anthropology Department. The College found articles from a former 
student from the 1960s indicating human remains were discovered in 
Monterey, CA, ``12 miles south of Point Lobos'' and ``near Jack's 
Peak'' by a former student and donated to the College. The College has 
no evidence that the human remains referenced in the article are those 
listed in this notice other than the location of the human remains. No 
further information is known about the provenience of these human 
remains.

Consultation

    Invitations to consult were sent to the Tule River Indian Tribe of 
the Tule River Reservation, California and to the following non-
federally recognized Indian groups: Amah Mutsun Tribal Band in Galt, 
CA; Amah Mutsun Tribal

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Band of Mission San Juan Bautista in Lakeport, CA; Costanoan Ohlone 
Rumsen-Mutsen Tribe in Watsonville, CA; Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe 
in Pomona, CA; Esselen Tribe of Monterey County in Carmel Valley, CA; 
Indian Canyon Mutsun Band of Costanoan in Hollister, CA; Muwekma Ohlone 
Indian Tribe of the SF Bay Area in Castro Valley, CA; North Valley 
Yokuts Tribe in Linden, CA; Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen Nation in 
Monterey, CA; The Ohlone Indian Tribe in Fremont, CA; KaKoon Ta Ruk 
Band of Ohlone-Costanoan Indians of the Big Sur Rancheria in Woodland, 
CA; Rumsen Am:a Tur:ataj Ohlone in Hesperia, CA; and Tamien Nation in 
San Jose, CA.
    The Ohlone/Costanoan Esselen Nation responded to the invitation and 
participated in consultation.

Cultural Affiliation

    The following types of information about the cultural affiliation 
of the human remains in this notice are available: geographical and 
other relevant information.
    The information, including the results of consultation, identified:
    1. The Ohlone/Costanoan Esselen Nation as an earlier group 
connected to the human remains.
    2. The Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation, 
California as an Indian Tribe connected to the human remains.
    3. No relationship of shared group identity between the earlier 
group and the Indian Tribe that can be reasonably traced through time.

Determinations

    The Monterey Peninsula College has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
     No known lineal descendant who can trace ancestry to the 
human remains in this notice has been identified.
     No Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with 
cultural affiliation to the human remains in this notice has been 
clearly or reasonably identified.
     The human remains will be reinterred according to 
applicable laws and policies.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains in this 
notice must be sent to the authorized representative identified in this 
notice under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Requests for repatriation 
may be submitted by any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native 
Hawaiian organization 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, transfer, or reinterment of the human remains 
described in this notice may occur on or after January 6, 2025. If 
requests for repatriation are received, the Monterey Peninsula College 
must evaluate the requests and respond in writing to the requestors. 
The Monterey Peninsula College is responsible for sending a copy of 
this notice to any consulting lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or 
Native Hawaiian organization.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.

    Dated: November 22, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-28500 Filed 12-4-24; 8:45 am]
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