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the draft nomination and the 

recommendations of the Federal 

Interagency Panel for World Heritage. 

She determined that the property meets 

the prerequisites for nomination by the 

United States to the World Heritage List 

that are detailed in 36 CFR part 73. The 

property is nationally significant, being 

a National Natural Landmark designated 

by the Department of the Interior. The 

owner of the property has concurred in 

writing with the nomination, and the 

property is well protected legally and 

functionally as documented in the 

nomination. It appears to meet two of 

the World Heritage criteria for natural 

properties. 

Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge 

is nominated under World Heritage 

natural criteria (ix) and (x), as provided 

in 36 CFR 73.9(c)(1), as a property that 

appears to justify criterion (ix) as a 

diverse mosaic of wetlands, savannas, 

forests, and prairie ecosystems and 

ecotones with a unique reliance on the 

natural interplay between fire and 

precipitation. The property also justifies 

criterion (x) as it is uniquely situated to 

be a thriving habitat for many important 

and rare plant and animal species. The 

refuge also meets the World Heritage 

requirements for integrity. 

The World Heritage List is an 

international list of cultural and natural 

properties nominated by the signatories 

to the World Heritage Convention 

(1972). The World Heritage Committee, 

composed of representatives of 21 

nations elected as the governing body of 

the World Heritage Convention, makes 

the final decisions on which 

nominations to accept on the World 

Heritage List at its annual meeting each 

summer. There are 1,223 World Heritage 

sites in 168 of the 196 signatory 

countries. The United States has 26 sites 

inscribed on the World Heritage List. 

U.S. participation and the role of the 

Department of the Interior are 

authorized by title IV of the National 

Historic Preservation Act Amendments 

of 1980, Public Law 96–515, 94 Stat. 

2987, 3000, codified as amended at 54 

U.S.C. 307101, and conducted by the 

Department through the National Park 

Service in accordance with the 

regulations at 36 CFR part 73 which 

implement the Convention pursuant to 

the 1980 Amendments. 

Neither inclusion in the Tentative List 

nor inscription as a World Heritage Site 

imposes legal restrictions on owners or 

neighbors of sites, nor do they give the 

United Nations any management 

authority or ownership rights in U.S. 

World Heritage Sites, which continue to 

be subject only to U.S. federal and local 

laws, as applicable. 

Authority: 54 U.S.C. 307101; 36 CFR 

part 73. 

Shannon A. Estenoz, 

Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and 

Parks. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0039249; 

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Notice of Intended Disposition: U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Forest 

Service, Carson National Forest, Taos, 

NM 

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 Agriculture, Forest 

Service, Carson National Forest (CAF), 

intends to carry out the disposition of 

objects of cultural patrimony 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 cultural items 

in this notice may occur on or after 

January 29, 2025. If no claim for 

disposition is received by December 30, 

2025, the cultural items in this notice 

will become unclaimed cultural items. 

ADDRESSES: Erin E. Brown, Forest 

Archeologist, USDA Forest Service, 

Carson National Forest, 208 Cruz Alta 

Road, Taos, NM 87571, telephone (575) 

779–4827, email erin.brown@usda.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 CAF, and 

additional information on the 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, 

seven objects of cultural patrimony 

include a small Dinetah Grayware jar, a 

wooden feather effigy, and five wooden 

cradle board pieces. The Dinetah 

Grayware pot has flat to slightly concave 

base, with some striations on the surface 

of the vessel. At the time of discovery, 

the wooden feather effigy was resting on 

top of the vessel. Both items were 

located in a crevice under a large 

sandstone boulder, and the items had 

been walled in with thin sandstone 

slabs and adobe. Approximately 35 feet 

north of the first crevice, a second 

crevice contained the five wooden 

cradleboard pieces. The seven items 

were found in two crevices, separated 

by approximately 35 feet, in 1991 by a 

member of the public. The items were 

removed from site AR–03–02–03–00524 

in Pueblita Canyon located within the 

Jicarilla Ranger District of the Carson 

National Forest, Rio Arriba County, New 

Mexico. 

Determinations 

The CAF has determined that: 

• The seven 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. 

• The Navajo Nation, Arizona, New 

Mexico, & Utah has priority for 

disposition of the cultural items 

described in this notice. 

Claims for Disposition 

Written claims for disposition of the 

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 

December 30, 2025, the cultural items in 

this notice will become unclaimed 

cultural items. Claims for disposition 

may be submitted by: 

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 cultural items in 

this notice may occur on or after January 

29, 2025. If competing claims for 

disposition are received, the CAF must 

determine the most appropriate 

claimant prior to disposition. Requests 

for joint disposition of the cultural items 

are considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The CAF 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 

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U.S.C. 3002, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.7. 

Dated: December 19, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, 

WI 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

Milwaukee Public Museum has 

completed an inventory of human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

and has determined that there is a 

cultural affiliation between the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations in this notice. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

January 29, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Dawn Scher Thomae, 

Milwaukee Public Museum, 800 W 

Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI 53233 

telephone (414) 278–6157, email 

thomae@mpm.edu. 

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 Milwaukee 

Public Museum, 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 

Human remains representing, at least, 

67 individuals have been identified. The 

3,967 associated funerary objects are 

hornstone blades, bifaces, chert blades, 

flakes; charcoal; copper artifacts 

including awls, crescents, points, beads; 

wood fragments; quartzite flakes; stone 

fragments; soil samples; stone points 

and cores; birchbark fragments; shell 

beads, red sandstone/catlinite 

fragments; worked stone or whetstones; 

limonite; seeds, bark, deer premolar, 

and a shell. 

The Riverside Site was excavated 

jointly by the Oshkosh Public Museum 

(OPM) and MPM between 1961 and 

1963. The excavation was led by Robert 

Hrushka of OPM and Robert 

Ritzenthaler of MPM. Most of the site 

collections were donated to the MPM by 

the Oshkosh Public Museum on 9/26/ 

1968. The Riverside Site is considered 

a multicomponent site representing Late 

Archaic to the Mississippian time 

periods, with the main component being 

a Late Archaic/Early Woodland 

Transition/Red Ochre Culture cemetery 

dating between 1000 and 100 BC. 

The MPM is unaware of the presence 

of any potentially hazardous substances 

used to treat any of the human remains 

or associated funerary objects. 

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 Milwaukee Public Museum has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of at least 67 individuals of 

Native American ancestry. 

• The 3,967 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 

Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin. 

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 January 29, 2025. 

If competing requests for repatriation 

are received, the Milwaukee Public 

Museum 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 Milwaukee 

Public Museum 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: December 19, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0039248; 

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Notice of Intended Repatriation: 

Brooklyn Children’s Museum, 

Brooklyn, NY 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

Brooklyn Children’s Museum intends to 

repatriate certain cultural items that 

meet the definition of sacred objects and 

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 

January 29, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Kiani Kodama and Kate 

Mirand Calleri, Brooklyn Children’s 

Museum, 145 Brooklyn Avenue, 

Brooklyn, NY 11213, telephone (718) 

735–4400, email kkodama@

brooklynkids.org and kcalleri@

brooklynkids.org. 

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 Brooklyn 

Children’s Museum, and additional 

information on the determinations in 

this notice, including the results of 

consultation, can be found in the 

summary or related records. The 


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