Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 163 / Thursday, August 21, 2008 / Notices 49475 

collaborative planning process. This 

ROD/RMP addresses management of 

approximately 52,947 acres of public 

land. The Cascade-Siskiyou National 

Monument ROD/RMP is designed to 

meet the primary goal of protecting, 

maintaining, restoring or enhancing the 

long-term ecological integrity of the 

Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. 

The management actions detailed in the 

RMP address vegetation management, 

transportation and access, livestock 

grazing, recreation, visitor use, facilities, 

and rights-of-way. No further 

administrative remedies are available at 

this time for land use decisions made in 

the RMP. 

With one exception, the approved 

Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument 

RMP is very similar to the proposed 

management in Cascade-Siskiyou 

National Monument Proposed RMP/ 

Final EIS (FEIS) published in February 

2005. The BLM received 12 protests on 

the Proposed RMP/FEIS. In response to 

one of the protests, a decision was made 

to allow flexibility to lift the peregrine 

falcon seasonal restrictions on the south 

and east sides of Pilot Rock, from 

February 1 to July 30 each year, if it is 

determined by the BLM that peregrine 

falcons are not nesting, or that their 

young have been confirmed to have 

fledged and moved a sufficient distance 

from the rock face to avoid disturbance 

by climbers. Other minor modifications 

to the proposed plan corrected errors 

that were noted during review of the 

Proposed RMP/FEIS and provide further 

clarification for some of the decisions. 

Edward W. Shepard, 

State Director. 

[FR Doc. E8–19268 Filed 8–20–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–33–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Herring River Restoration, 

Environmental Impact Statement, Cape 

Cod National Seashore, MA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, 

Department of the Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement for the 

Herring River Restoration, Cape Cod 

National Seashore. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with 

§ 102(2)(C) of the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as 

amended (NEPA), the National Park 

Service is preparing an Environmental 

Impact Statement for the Herring River 

Restoration Project, Cape Cod National 

Seashore, Massachusetts. This 

restoration project is being developed in 

partnership with the Town of Wellfleet 

and the Town of Truro, and in 

cooperation with Massachusetts Coastal 

Zone Management, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration, and 

Natural Resources Conservation Service. 

In addition to satisfying the 

requirements and intent of the NEPA, 

this Environmental Impact Statement 

will also be developed in compliance 

with the Massachusetts Environmental 

Policy Act (MEPA) and thus will result 

in a combined Environmental Impact 

Statement/Environmental Impact Report 

(EIS/EIR). 

The purpose of this project and EIS/ 

EIR is to provide for the restoration of 

over 1100 acres of salt-marsh and 

estuarine habitat in the Herring River 

which has been degraded by diking and 

drainage since 1909. Restoration is 

needed to: (1) Re-establish the physical 

connection between the estuary and 

Cape Cod Bay for natural material 

exchange and for access by marine 

animals including migratory fish; (2) 

restore aquatic habitat and ecosystem 

services both within the estuary and in 

receiving waters of Wellfleet Harbor by 

reversing the water-quality impacts of 

100 years of diking and drainage; (3) 

replace existing invasive exotic plant 

species with native salt-marsh species 

through the reestablishment of natural 

estuarine salinity; (4) restore ecosystem 

productivity through the 

reestablishment of naturally high tidal 

range; (5) minimize the long-term 

management and social costs of 

continued diking in the face of current, 

and likely accelerating, sea-level rise; 

and (6) guide a phased, carefully 

monitored and adaptively managed 

long-term restoration program. The EIS/ 

EIR will examine a range of feasible 

alternatives and evaluate potential 

impacts on natural resources, cultural 

resources, and the human environment. 

The public is invited to comment on 

the purpose, need, objectives, 

preliminary alternatives, or any other 

issues associated with the plan. A 

scoping newsletter has been prepared 

that details the purpose, need, and 

issues identified to date. The newsletter 

is available on-line at http:// 

parkplanning.nps.gov. Select ‘‘Cape Cod 

NS’’ and follow the link to the Herring 

River Restoration EIS. Paper copies may 

also be obtained by e-mailing 

CACO_Herring_River@nps.gov, or from 

Carrie Phillips, Cape Cod National 

Seashore, 99 Marconi Site Road, 

Wellfleet, MA 02667, 508–349–3785. 

DATES: The NPS will accept comments 

from the public regarding this Notice of 

Intent until October 31, 2008. In 

addition, public scoping meetings will 

be held in Wellfleet beginning in August 

2008. Dates and times will be advertised 

in local newspapers, the park Web site 

(http://www.nps.gov/caco), the NPS 

Planning, Environment and Public 

Comment Web site (http:// 

parkplanning.nps.gov) or contact Carrie 

Phillips, Cape Cod NS, at the address 

shown below. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 

submitted by mail or hand delivery to 

Superintendent, Cape Cod National 

Seashore, 99 Marconi Site Road, 

Wellfleet, MA 02667. Comments may be 

submitted electronically at http:// 

parkplanning.nps.gov, or by e-mail to 

CACO_Herring_River@nps.gov. 

Comments may also be provided at the 

public scoping meetings which will be 

held at the Wellfleet Senior Center 

(Council on Aging), 715 Old Kings 

Highway, Wellfleet, Massachusetts. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, e-mail 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 review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carrie Phillips, Cape Cod National 

Seashore, 99 Marconi Site Road, 

Wellfleet, MA 02667, 508–349–3785; 

e-mail: CACO_Herring_River@nps.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Herring River estuary comprised over 

half of the tidal marshes of Wellfleet 

Harbor prior to diking in 1909, provided 

1100 acres of feeding, spawning and 

nursery habitat to thousands of species 

of resident and migratory marine and 

estuarine animals, and exported foods 

that promoted the high productivity of 

receiving waters throughout Wellfleet 

Bay. In particular, the river’s herring 

and eel runs and shellfish beds were an 

economic and social focus of the 

maritime community. Thus the 1909 

diking was controversial, and is 

increasingly so in light of the high 

ecological and social values of natural 

salt marshes identified over the past few 

decades. Since 1961, 80 percent of this 

estuary has been incorporated within 

the boundaries of Cape Cod National 

Seashore, a unit of the National Park 

Service responsible for preserving and 

restoring native ecosystems. 

Nearly 30 years of ecological research 

by National Park Service and 

cooperating scientists into the effects of 

mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with NOTICES

49476 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 163 / Thursday, August 21, 2008 / Notices 

the 1909 diking of the Herring River 

estuary have documented chronic and 

severe water-quality problems and 

frequent fish kills. In response, the 

Town of Wellfleet in August 2005 

appointed a Herring River Technical 

Committee, representing the Towns of 

Wellfleet and Truro, Massachusetts 

Coastal Zone Management, Cape Cod 

National Seashore, and other federal, 

state and regional resource-management 

agencies, to develop a Conceptual 

Restoration Plan. The Conceptual 

Restoration Plan was completed in 

October 2007 and accepted by the towns 

and the Seashore shortly thereafter 

under an agreement that further 

established a new Herring River 

Restoration Committee tasked with 

guiding the project through both federal 

NEPA and state MEPA review and 

developing a detailed restoration plan. 

Through an extensive preliminary 

scoping process conducted during the 

development of the Conceptual 

Restoration Plan, the Herring River 

Technical Committee identified these 

issues: Restoration of the estuary’s 

functions through reconnection to the 

marine environment, improvement of 

surface-water quality, protection of 

shellfish beds, protection of potable 

groundwater quality, protection of 

adjacent private properties and public 

roadways, nuisance mosquito breeding, 

and exotic plants. 

In addition to the no action 

alternative, alternatives that could be 

considered in the EIS/EIR include full 

tidal restoration and a phased and 

incremental process of tidal restoration, 

monitoring and analysis of system 

response, public outreach and adaptive 

management. 

Dated: August 12, 2008. 

Dennis R. Reidenbach, 

Regional Director, Northeast Region, National 

Park Service. 

[FR Doc. E8–19436 Filed 8–20–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–WU–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Intent to Repatriate a Cultural 

Item: Horner Collection, Oregon State 

University, Corvallis, OR 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

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 in the 

possession of the Horner Collection, 

Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 

that meets the definition of 

‘‘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 cultural 

item. The National Park Service is not 

responsible for the determinations in 

this notice. 

The Museum of Oregon Country, 

Oregon Agricultural College was 

renamed the John B. Horner Museum of 

the Oregon Country in 1936, and 

became commonly known as the Horner 

Museum. The Oregon Agricultural 

College was renamed the Oregon State 

College in 1937, and became Oregon 

State University in 1962. The Horner 

Museum closed in 1995. Currently, 

cultural items from the Horner Museum 

are referred to as the Horner Collection, 

which is owned by, and in the 

possession of, Oregon State University. 

The Horner Collection, Oregon State 

University professional staff consulted 

with representatives of the Confederated 

Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and 

Siuslaw Indians of Oregon; 

Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde 

Community of Oregon; Confederated 

Tribes of the Siletz Reservation, Oregon; 

Coquille Tribe of Oregon; Karuk Tribe of 

California; Smith River Rancheria, 

California; and Yurok Tribe of the Yurok 

Reservation, California. The 

Confederated Tribes and Bands of the 

Yakama Nation, Washington; 

Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis 

Reservation, Washington; Cowlitz 

Indian Tribe, Washington; Hawai‘i 

Island Burial Council; Hoh Indian Tribe 

of the Hoh Indian Reservation, 

Washington; Hui Malama I Na Kupuna 

O Hawai‘i Nei; Jamestown S’Klallam 

Tribe of Washington; Kauai/Niihau 

Island Burial Council; Lower Elwha 

Tribal Community of the Lower Elwha 

Reservation, Washington; Lummi Tribe 

of the Lummi Reservation, Washington; 

Makah Indian Tribe of the Makah Indian 

Reservation, Washington; Maui/Lanai 

Island Burial Council; Molokai Island 

Burial Council; O’ahu Burial 

Committee; Office of Hawaiian Affairs; 

Quartz Valley Indian Community of the 

Quartz Valley Reservation of California; 

Quileute Tribe of the Quileute 

Reservation, Washington; Quinault 

Tribe of the Quinault Reservation, 

Washington; Shoalwater Bay Tribe of 

the Shoalwater Bay Indian Reservation, 

Washington; Skokomish Indian Tribe of 

the Skokomish Reservation, 

Washington; Swinomish Indians of the 

Swinomish Reservation, Washington; 

and Tulalip Tribes of the Tulalip 

Reservation, Washington were informed 

of the item in this claim, but did not 

participate in the consultations. 

At an unknown date, a trinket basket 

was removed from Vancouver, Clark 

County, WA, probably by Mrs. J.E. 

Barrett. Mrs. Barrett brought the basket 

to the Horner Museum in 1934 and 

gifted it to the Horner Museum in 1972. 

The Horner Collection, Oregon State 

University has no evidence the trinket 

basket was ever buried with any 

individual. However, J.E. Barrett is 

known to have collected cultural items 

from burials and mounds. Based on 

consultation and museum records, the 

Horner Collection, Oregon State 

University has identified this cultural 

item as an unassociated funerary object. 

Tribal representatives have identified 

this basket as typical of those found at 

the mouth of the Columbia River and 

displays characteristics of Clatsop, 

Tillamook, and Chinook basketry 

techniques and materials. The Clatsop, 

Nehalem, Tillamook, Nestucca, 

Neachesna (Salmon River Tillamook), 

and Siletz Band of Tillamooks were all 

parties to the 1855 Coast Treaty. The 

treaty was never ratified and the 

northern Oregon coastal bands were not 

forced to remove to the Siletz 

Reservation as stipulated in the treaty. 

For the most part, remaining in their 

traditional territories the northern 

Oregon coast bands traded and intermarried with members of the 

Confederated Tribes of Siletz 

Reservation, Oregon and Confederated 

Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community 

of Oregon. Many of the Tillamook 

families at Salmon River (within the 

Siletz Reservation and often having 

Chinook and Clatsop ancestry) received 

Siletz Reservation Allotments. 

Officials of the Horner Collection, 

Oregon State University 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 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. 

Officials of the Horner Collection, 

Oregon State University also have 

determined that, 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 

Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde 

Community of Oregon and Confederated 

Tribes of the Siletz Reservation, Oregon. 

mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with NOTICES