51508 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 171 / Wednesday, September 3, 2008 / Notices 

West Seventh Avenue, #13, Anchorage, 

Alaska 99513–7504. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: The 

Bureau of Land Management by phone 

at 907–271–5960, or by e-mail at 

ak.blm.conveyance@ak.blm.gov. Persons 

who use a telecommunication device 

(TTD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877– 

8330, 24 hours a day, seven days a 

week, to contact the Bureau of Land 

Management. 

Joe J. Labay, 

Land Transfer Resolution Specialist, 

Resolution Branch. 

[FR Doc. E8–20339 Filed 9–2–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[SDM 98495] 

Notice of Proposed Withdrawal and 

Opportunity for Public Meeting; 

Correction 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Correction. 

SUMMARY: In the notice published in 73 

FR 49217–49218, published August 20, 

2008, as FR Doc. E8–19262, make the 

following correction: 

On page 49217, column 3, following 

T. 7 S., R. 3 E., Sec. 32, should read 

‘‘All, except SE1⁄4SE1⁄4 and HES 348’’. 

Dated: August 25, 2008. 

Cindy Staszak, 

Chief, Branch of Land Resources. 

[FR Doc. E8–20338 Filed 9–2–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[OR–936–1430–01; HAG–08–0088; WAOR– 

60988] 

Public Land Order No. 7715; Transfer 

of Federal Lands for the Lewis and 

Clark National Historical Park; WA 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

SUMMARY: This order confirms the 

transfer of management of 1,246 acres of 

Federal surveyed and accreted lands 

thereto, by the Secretary of Interior from 

the Bureau of Land Management to the 

Director, National Park Service for the 

creation of the Lewis and Clark National 

Historical Park. 

DATES: Effective Date: September 3, 

2008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael L. Barnes, BLM, Oregon State 

Office, P.O. Box 2965, Portland, Oregon 

97208, 503–808–6155. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public 

Law No. 108–387 directs the Secretary 

of the Interior to transfer management of 

Federal lands described in this order to 

the Director of the National Park Service 

for the lands described below. 

Order 

By virtue of the authority vested in 

the Secretary of the Interior by Public 

Law No. 108–387, 118 Stat. 2235, and 

Section 204 of the Federal Land Policy 

and Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 

1714 (2000), it is ordered and confirmed 

as follows: 

1. Subject to valid existing rights 

(including existing withdrawals), 

management as to the following 

described Federal lands is hereby 

transferred by the Secretary of the 

Interior from the Bureau of Land 

Management to the Director, National 

Park Service: 

Willamette Meridian 

T. 9 N., R. 11 W., 

Sec. 4, lots 2, 3, and 4, and all accretions 

thereto; 

Sec. 5, lots 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, SE1⁄4NE1⁄4, and 

E1⁄2SE1⁄4, and all accretions thereto; 

Sec. 9, lots 2, 3, and 4, and all accretions 

thereto. 

The areas described aggregate 1,246 acres, 

more or less, in Pacific County. 

2. The lands described in Paragraph 1 

shall be administered as part of the 

Lewis and Clark National Historic Park 

in accordance with the provisions of 

Public Law No. 108–387. 

Dated: July 31, 2008. 

C. Stephen Allred, 

Assistant Secretary—Land and Minerals 

Management. 

[FR Doc. E8–20404 Filed 9–2–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[ID–110–5410–08–FR–D058; DBG–08–1012; 

IDI–36199] 

Notice of Realty Action: Application for 

Conveyance of Federal Mineral 

Interests, Washington County, ID 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of application. 

SUMMARY: The surface owner of the 

lands described in this notice, 

aggregating approximately 1,250 acres, 

has filed an application for the purchase 

of the federally-owned mineral interests 

in the lands. Publication of this notice 

temporarily segregates the mineral 

interest from appropriation under the 

public land laws, including the mining 

law. 

DATES: Interested persons may submit 

written comments to the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) at the address stated 

below. Comments must be received no 

later than October 20, 2008. 

Comments: 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. If you 

wish to withhold your name or address 

from public review or from disclosure 

under the Freedom of Information Act, 

you must clearly state this at the 

beginning of your written comment. 

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. The BLM will honor requests for 

confidentiality on a case-by-case basis to 

the extent allowed by law. All 

submissions from organizations or 

businesses, and from individuals 

identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, will be 

made available for public inspection in 

their entirety. All persons who wish to 

present comments, suggestions, or 

objections in connection with the 

pending application may do so by 

writing to Rosemary Thomas, Four 

Rivers Field Manager, at the following 

address. 

ADDRESSES: Bureau of Land 

Management, Boise District Office, 3948 

Development Avenue, Boise, ID 83705. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Effie 

Schultsmeier, Realty Specialist, at the 

above address or at 208–384–3357. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

surface owner of the following 

described lands has filed an application 

pursuant to section 209 of the Federal 

Land Policy and Management Act of 

1976, 43 U.S.C. 1719(b), for the 

purchase and conveyance of the 

Federally-owned mineral interest in the 

following described lands: 

Boise Meridian, Washington County, Idaho 

T. 6 N., R. 5 W., 

Sec. 13, SW1⁄4SW1⁄4; Sec. 14, SE1⁄4SW1⁄4, 

S1⁄2SE1⁄4; Sec. 15, SE1⁄4SE1⁄4; Sec. 23, 

N1⁄2, NE1⁄4SW1⁄4, N1⁄2SE1⁄4, N1⁄2NW1⁄4

NW1⁄4SW1⁄4, S1⁄2SW1⁄4NW1⁄4SW1⁄4, E1⁄2

NW1⁄4SW1⁄4, N1⁄2SE1⁄4SW1⁄4, N1⁄2SW1⁄4

SE1⁄4; Sec. 24, W1⁄2NW1⁄4, W1⁄2NW1⁄4

SW1⁄4. 


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Total Acres 1,250.00, more or less. 

Effective immediately, the BLM will 

process the pending application in 

accordance with the regulations stated 

in 43 CFR part 2720. Written comments 

concerning the application must be 

received no later than the date specified 

above in this notice. The purpose for a 

purchase and conveyance is to allow 

consolidation of surface and subsurface 

minerals ownership where (1) there are 

no known mineral values or (2) in those 

instances where the Federal mineral 

interest reservation interferes with or 

precludes appropriate nonmineral 

development and such development is a 

more beneficial use of the land than the 

mineral development. 

On September 3, 2008, the mineral 

interests owned by the United States in 

the above described lands will be 

segregated to the extent that they will 

not be subject to the appropriation 

under the public land laws, including 

the mining laws. The segregative effect 

shall terminate upon issuance of a 

patent or deed of such mineral interest; 

upon final rejection of the mineral 

conveyance application; or September 3, 

2010, whichever occurs first. 

Authority: 43 CFR 2720.1–1(b). 

Rosemary Thomas, 

Four Rivers Field Manager. 

[FR Doc. E8–20336 Filed 9–2–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural 

Items: U.S. Department of the Interior, 

National Park Service, Lake Roosevelt 

National Recreation Area, Coulee Dam, 

WA 

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 cultural items that are in 

the control of the U.S. Department of the 

Interior, National Park Service, Lake 

Roosevelt National Recreation Area, 

Coulee Dam, WA, that meet the 

definition of ‘‘unassociated funerary 

objects’’ under 25 U.S.C 3005. They 

were removed from ten archeological 

sites within the boundaries of Lake 

Roosevelt National Recreation Area. 

Seven of the sites are in Ferry County, 

WA, and three are in Stevens County, 

WA. 

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 superintendent, Lake Roosevelt 

National Recreation Area. 

On April 9, 1872, land on the east 

side of the Columbia River in 

Washington Territory was set aside as 

the Colville Reservation by Executive 

Order. On July 2, 1872, that land was 

restored to the public domain, and land 

on the west side of the Columbia River 

was set aside as the Colville 

Reservation. On July 1, 1892, Congress 

restored the north half of the Colville 

Reservation to the public domain, and 

reduced tribal lands through allotments 

to individual Indians under the Dawes 

Act of 1887. The two constituent tribes 

of the Confederated Tribes of the 

Colville Reservation that are 

traditionally associated with the area are 

the Colville and Lakes Tribes. 

Grand Coulee Dam, initiated by the 

Bureau of Reclamation in the 1930s, was 

completed in 1941. Some of the lands 

inundated by the resulting reservoir had 

been previously reserved by either the 

Confederated Tribes of the Colville 

Reservation, Washington or the Spokane 

Tribe of the Spokane Reservation, 

Washington. In 1946, a Tri-Party 

Agreement among the Bureau of 

Reclamation, the National Park Service 

and the Office of Indian Affairs was 

developed to manage the Coulee Dam 

Recreation Area in three zones: 

Reclamation Zone, Recreation Zone, and 

Reservation Zone. The agreement gave 

the National Park Service control of 

land in the Recreation Zone for most 

purposes, including the management of 

archeological resources. In 1990, a fiveparty Lake Roosevelt Cooperative 

Management Agreement was 

implemented that included the 

Confederated Tribes of the Colville 

Reservation, Washington and the 

Spokane Tribe of the Spokane 

Reservation, Washington as signatories. 

The National Park Service retained 

control of the Recreation Zone. The 

recreation area became Lake Roosevelt 

National Recreation Area in 1997. 

The unassociated funerary objects 

were removed from ten archeological 

sites on land reserved by the 

Confederated Tribes of the Colville 

Reservation, Washington until 1946. 

The sites were affected by the Bureau of 

Reclamation’s operation of Grand 

Coulee Dam since the early 1940s, and 

are within the Recreation Zone managed 

by the National Park Service. In 2005, 

the Bureau of Reclamation and the 

National Park Service jointly 

determined that Lake Roosevelt 

National Recreation Area has control of 

the NAGPRA collections and 

responsibility for compliance with 

NAGPRA. 

From 1967 to 1978, human remains 

and associated funerary objects were 

collected by local residents from 

eroding shorelines along the banks of 

Lake Roosevelt or excavated by 

professional archeologists during legally 

authorized salvage excavations. The 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects were stored at Washington State 

University (WSU) until mid–1967, when 

they were moved to the Alfred W. 

Bowers Laboratory of Anthropology at 

the University of Idaho (UI). Human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

acquired after that time were transferred 

from Lake Roosevelt to the University of 

Idaho, and became part of the Kettle 

Falls Archeological Collection. Prior to 

the passage of NAGPRA on November 

16, 1990, some of the human remains 

were repatriated to the Confederated 

Tribes of the Colville Reservation, 

Washington. In 1992, the Kettle Falls 

Archeological Collection was 

transferred to the Bureau of 

Reclamation’s Grand Coulee Dam 

Administrative Headquarters. In 2006, 

the collection was transferred to the 

physical custody of the Confederated 

Tribes of the Colville Reservation, 

Washington. 

Between 1967 and 1978, human 

remains and funerary objects were 

removed from the Freeland Site (45–FE– 

1). Some of the human remains were 

repatriated to the Confederated Tribes of 

the Colville Reservation, Washington, 

while the rest were accessioned by the 

National Park Service, and are included 

in a separate Notice of Inventory 

Completion. The 1,026 unassociated 

funerary objects are 2 projectile points, 

2 lithic flakes, 516 dentalium shell 

beads, 241 copper beads, 1 copper 

pendant, 1 copper plate, 14 copper 

fragments, 71 pieces of verdigris (copper 

with a copper sulfate patina), 1 iron axe 

head, 1 shell, 52 pieces of plant fiber 

cordage, 1 piece of cordage with nonhuman hair and leather, 2 pieces of 

cordage with leather, 107 leather strips, 

4 scraps of leather hide, 1 leather knot, 

4 pieces of non-human hair, 2 peach 

pits, 2 lots of quartzite debris, and 1 

piece of cedar wood. 

The Freeland site is a Native 

American burial ground dating to the 

early historic period based upon the 

nature of associated funerary objects 

and the condition and preservation of 

the skeletal elements. The Colville and 

Lakes Tribes were decimated by 

smallpox soon after 1800, and the 

Freeland site has been interpreted as an 

‘‘epidemic burial ground.’’ 


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