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###### Department of the Interior

###### National Park Service

          - [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039326; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]

# 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, Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands 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 associated funerary objects in this notice may occur on or after February 18, 2025. If no claim for disposition is received by January 16, 2026, the human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice will become unclaimed human remains and associated funerary objects.

# ADDRESSES:

                        Jack Isaacs, Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands, Forest Supervisor, 125 North Main Street, Chadron, NE 69337, telephone (308) 430-1379, email                         *jack.isaacs@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 Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands, and additional information on the human remains and associated funerary objects 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, one individual has been reasonably identified. Two associated funerary objects are present. On August 29 and August 30, 2022, in Pennington County, South Dakota human remains (including a skull with teeth, mandible, clavicle, vertebrae, ribs, pelvis, two femur bones and other bones) and the two potentially associated funerary items (one small round stone and one unspecified object) were removed.

## Determinations

The Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands has determined that:
    - The human remains described in this notice represent the physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
    - The two 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 Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana; Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma; Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota; Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota; Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the Lower Brule Reservation, South Dakota; Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana; Oglala Sioux Tribe; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota; Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, South Dakota; Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota; Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; and the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota have priority for disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects described in this notice.

## Claims for Disposition

                    Written claims for disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the appropriate official identified in this notice under                     **ADDRESSES**                    . If no claim for disposition is received by January 16, 2026, the human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice will become unclaimed human remains and associated funerary objects. 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 human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice may occur on or after February 18, 2025. If competing claims for disposition are received, the Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands must determine the most appropriate claimant prior to disposition. Requests for joint disposition of the human remains and                           ( print page 4802)                        associated funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing requests. The Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands 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: January 6, 2025.

Melanie O'Brien,

Manager, National NAGPRA Program.

[FR Doc. 2025-01017 Filed 1-15-25; 8:45 am]

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