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(1) The initial request from a tribe that 

we enter into an agreement with the 

tribe for gathering and removal of plants 

or plant parts for traditional purposes. 

The request must include the 

information specified in § 2.6(c). 

(2) The agreement defines the terms 

under which the NPS may issue a 

permit to a tribe for plant gathering 

purposes. To make determinations 

based upon tribal requests or to enter 

into an agreement, we may need to 

collect information from specific tribal 

members or tribes who make requests. 

The agreement must contain the 

information specified in § 2.6(f). 

(3) Tribes may submit an appeal to the 

NPS to provide additional information 

on historical relationship of the tribe, 

traditional uses of plants to be gathered, 

and/or the impact of gathering on the 

resource of concern in the event of a 

denial by the NPS on this issue. 

Title of Collection: Gathering of 

Certain Plants or Plant Parts by 

Federally Recognized Indian Tribes for 

Traditional Purposes, 36 CFR 2. 

OMB Control Number: 1024–0271. 

Form Number: None. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: Indian 

Tribes. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 30. 

Estimated Completion Time per 

Response: Varies between 4 hours and 

80 hours depending on respondent and/ 

or activity. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 530 hours. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain a benefit. 

Frequency of Collection: On occasion. 

Total Estimated Annual Nonhour 

Burden Cost: None. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor and a person is not required to 

respond to a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. 

The authority for this action is the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 

Phadrea Ponds, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer, 

National Park Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0033739; 

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Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Putnam Museum and Science 

Center, Davenport, IA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Putnam Museum and 

Science Center, in consultation with the 

appropriate Indian Tribes or Native 

Hawaiian organizations, has determined 

that the cultural items listed in this 

notice meet the definition of 

unassociated funerary objects. Lineal 

descendants or representatives of any 

Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to claim these cultural items 

should submit a written request to the 

Putnam Museum and Science Center. If 

no additional claimants come forward, 

transfer of control of the cultural items 

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 these cultural items should 

submit a written request with 

information in support of the claim to 

the Putnam Museum and Science Center 

at the address in this notice by May 23, 

2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christina Kastell, Putnam Museum and 

Science Center, 1717 W 12th Street, 

Davenport, IA 52804, telephone (563) 

336–7293, email ckastell@putnam.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 cultural 

items under the control of the Putnam 

Museum and Science Center, 

Davenport, IA, 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 Native 

American cultural items. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

History and Description of the Cultural 

Items 

Sometime in the 1880s, six cultural 

items were removed from the 

Mississippi Valley in AL and MS. 

Captain W.P. Hall excavated these 

items. Subsequently, Miss Elizabeth 

Duncan Putnam donated these items to 

the museum. The six unassociated 

funerary objects are two Bell Plain 

Bowls, one miniature bowl, one animal 

effigy sherd, one ear plug, and one pipe 

fragment. 

These items have been determined to 

derive from Mississippian burial 

mounds in AL and MS. Based on this 

geographical and archeological 

information, they are connected to The 

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. 

Determinations Made by the Putnam 

Museum and Science Center 

Officials of the Putnam Museum and 

Science Center have determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), 

the six cultural items described above 

are 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. 

• 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 

objects 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 these cultural items 

should submit a written request with 

information in support of the claim to 

Christina Kastell, Putnam Museum and 

Science Center, 1717 W 12th Street, 

Davenport, IA 52804, telephone (563) 

336–7293, email ckastell@putnam.org, 

by May 23, 2022. After that date, if no 

additional claimants have come 

forward, transfer of control of the 

unassociated funerary objects to The 

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma may 

proceed. 

The Putnam Museum and Science 

Center is responsible for notifying The 

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma that this 

notice has been published. 

Dated: April 13, 2022. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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