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action statement in accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA; 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) to 

evaluate the potential effects to the 

natural and human environment 

resulting from issuing an ITP to the 

applicant. We invite public comment on 

all of these documents. 

Background 

The Service listed the California redlegged frog as threatened on May 23, 

1996 (61 FR 25813). The Service is 

currently evaluating southwestern pond 

turtle for listing following the filing of 

a petition to list this species (80 Federal 

Register [FR] 19259, April 10, 2015), 

and southwestern pond turtle is a 

California state species of special 

concern. Section 9 of the ESA prohibits 

take of fish and wildlife species listed 

as endangered (16 U.S.C. 1538). Under 

the ESA, ‘‘take’’ is defined to include 

the following activities: ‘‘to harass, 

harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, 

trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to 

engage in any such conduct’’ (16 U.S.C. 

1532). Under section 10(a)(1)(B) of the 

ESA (16 U.S.C. 1539(a)(1)(B)), we may 

issue permits to authorize take of listed 

fish and wildlife species that is 

incidental to, and not the purpose of, 

carrying out an otherwise lawful 

activity. Regulations governing 

incidental take permits for endangered 

species are in the Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR) at 50 CFR 17.22. 

Issuance of an ITP also must not 

jeopardize the existence of federally 

listed fish, wildlife, or plant species, 

pursuant to section 7 of the ESA and 50 

CFR 402.02. The permittee would 

receive assurances under our ‘‘No 

Surprises’’ regulations (50 CFR 

17.22(b)(5)). 

Proposed Activities 

The applicant has applied for a permit 

for incidental take of California redlegged frog and southwestern pond 

turtle. The take would occur in 

association with the operations, 

maintenance, and closure of the 

Tajiguas Landfill and ReSource Center 

in Santa Barbara County, California. 

The HCP includes avoidance and 

minimization measures for the 

California red-legged frog and 

southwestern pond turtle and mitigation 

for unavoidable loss of habitat. As 

mitigation, the applicant proposes to 

protect 110-s of otherwise developable 

land adjacent to the Tajiguas Landfill 

with a conservation easement. The 

proposed conservation easement area is 

comprised of aquatic, adjacent upland, 

and dispersal habitat within California 

red-legged frog Critical Habitat Unit 

STB–6; including 3,500 linear feet of 

occupied California red-legged frog and 

southwestern pond turtle breeding 

habitat within Arroyo Quemado 

drainage. 

Public Availability of Comments 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email 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 view, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Authority 

We provide this notice under section 

10(c) of the ESA (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) 

and its implementing regulations (50 

CFR 17.22) and NEPA (42 U.S.C. 4321 

et seq.) and its implementing 

regulations (40 CFR 1506.6). 

Stephen Henry, 

Field Supervisor, Ventura Fish and Wildlife 

Office, Ventura, California. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0033684; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum 

of Natural History, University of 

Oklahoma, Norman, OK 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Sam Noble Oklahoma 

Museum of Natural History (Museum) at 

the University of Oklahoma, in 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations, has determined that the 

cultural item listed in this notice meets 

the definition of an unassociated 

funerary object. Lineal descendants or 

representatives of any Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

claim this cultural item should submit 

a written request to the Museum. If no 

additional claimants come forward, 

transfer of control of the cultural item 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 this cultural item should submit 

a written request with information in 

support of the claim to the Museum at 

the address in this notice by May 9, 

2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Marc Levine, Associate Curator of 

Archaeology, Sam Noble Oklahoma 

Museum of Natural History, University 

of Oklahoma, 2401 Chautauqua Avenue, 

Norman, OK 73072–7029, telephone 

(405) 325–1994, email mlevine@ou.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 a 

cultural item under the control of the 

Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of 

Natural History, University of 

Oklahoma, Norman, OK, that meets the 

definition of an 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 Native 

American cultural items. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

History and Description of the Cultural 

Item 

In 1941, one unassociated funerary 

object—a metal ring—was removed from 

a burial at the Clement 1 site (34Mc8) 

in McCurtain County, OK. The metal 

ring was recovered during excavations 

carried out by the Works Progress 

Administration in 1941 and was 

transferred to the Museum sometime 

that year. 

Although the Clement 1 site (34Mc8) 

includes a pre-contact component, the 

ring was interred during a reoccupation 

of the site sometime after the 1700s. 

Based on archeological, geographical, 

and historical evidence, as well as oral 

history and information gained through 

tribal consultation, the ring and 

associated burial most likely are 

culturally affiliated with The Choctaw 

Nation of Oklahoma. 

Determinations Made by the Sam Noble 

Oklahoma Museum of Natural History 

Officials of the Sam Noble Oklahoma 

Museum of Natural History 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 


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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. 

• 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 Choctaw Nation of 

Oklahoma. 

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 this cultural item 

should submit a written request with 

information in support of the claim to 

Dr. Marc Levine, Associate Curator of 

Archaeology, Sam Noble Oklahoma 

Museum of Natural History, University 

of Oklahoma, 2401 Chautauqua Avenue, 

Norman, OK 73072–7029, telephone 

(405) 325–1994, email mlevine@ou.edu, 

by May 9, 2022. After that date, if no 

additional claimants have come 

forward, transfer of control of the 

unassociated funerary object to The 

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma may 

proceed. 

The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of 

Natural History is responsible for 

notifying The Choctaw Nation of 

Oklahoma that this notice has been 

published. 

Dated: April 1, 2022. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0033683; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Presbyterian Historical Society, 

Philadelphia, PA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Presbyterian Historical 

Society, in consultation with the 

appropriate Indian Tribes or Native 

Hawaiian organizations, has determined 

that the cultural item listed in this 

notice meets the definition of both a 

sacred object and an object of cultural 

patrimony. Lineal descendants or 

representatives of any Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

claim this cultural item should submit 

a written request to the Presbyterian 

Historical Society. If no additional 

claimants come forward, transfer of 

control of the cultural item 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 this cultural item should submit 

a written request with information in 

support of the claim to the Presbyterian 

Historical Society at the address in this 

notice by May 9, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nancy J. Taylor, Executive Director, 

Presbyterian Historical Society, 425 

Lombard Street, Philadelphia, PA 

19147, telephone (215) 627–1852, email 

ntaylor@history.pcusa.org. 

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 a 

cultural item under the control of the 

Presbyterian Historical Society, 

Philadelphia, PA, that meets the 

definition of both a sacred object and an 

object of cultural patrimony 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 item. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

History and Description of the Cultural 

Item 

The Presbyterian Historical Society 

(PHS) holds in its museum collection a 

‘‘[c]onch shell used by David Brainerd 

to call Native Americans to worship’’ 

(accession number 638). 

David Brainerd (1718–1747) was an 

ordained Presbyterian minister who 

served as a missionary to Mohican, 

Stockbridge, and Delaware Indians in 

New York, Pennsylvania, and New 

Jersey from 1743 to 1746. According to 

PHS records, PHS acquired the conch 

shell sometime in the late nineteenth 

century from Sarah E. Marsh, daughter 

of Reverend Cutting Marsh, with 

Reverend William P. Breed acting as 

intermediary. In 1830, Cutting Marsh 

(1800–1873), a Presbyterian, began 

missionary work among the Stockbridge 

in Wisconsin. The one sacred object/ 

object of cultural patrimony is a large 

conch shell. 

According to information provided by 

the Stockbridge Munsee Community, 

Wisconsin, the conch shell is an object 

of cultural patrimony as well as a sacred 

object. Relying on oral tradition and 

supported by evidence in written 

accounts, the Stockbridge Munsee 

Community, Wisconsin posits that 

Mohican Sachem John Metoxan blew 

the conch shell for worship. Metoxan 

led 80 Stockbridge-Munsee Community 

ancestors west to Indiana in 1818 and 

joined the majority of the community in 

Wisconsin in 1822. He became sachem 

in 1830, the same year Reverend Cutting 

Marsh began his missionary work in 

Wisconsin. 

Determinations Made by the 

Presbyterian Historical Society 

Officials of the Presbyterian Historical 

Society have determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(C), 

the one cultural item described above is 

a specific ceremonial object needed by 

traditional Native American religious 

leaders for the practice of traditional 

Native American religions by their 

present-day adherents. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(D), 

the one cultural item described above 

has ongoing historical, traditional, or 

cultural importance central to the 

Native American group or culture itself, 

rather than property owned by an 

individual. 

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

is a relationship of shared group 

identity that can be reasonably traced 

between the sacred object and object of 

cultural patrimony and the Stockbridge 

Munsee Community, Wisconsin. 

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 this cultural item 

should submit a written request with 

information in support of the claim to 

Nancy J. Taylor, Executive Director 

Presbyterian Historical Society, 425 

Lombard Street, Philadelphia, PA 

19147, telephone (215) 627–1852, email 

ntaylor@history.pcusa.org, by May 9, 

2022. After that date, if no additional 

claimants have come forward, transfer 

of control of the sacred object and object 

of cultural patrimony to the Stockbridge 

Munsee Community, Wisconsin may 

proceed. 

The Presbyterian Historical Society is 

responsible for notifying the 

Stockbridge Munsee Community, 

Wisconsin that this notice has been 

published. 


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