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equipment at the USAF Indian 

Mountain Research Site. 

This withdrawal comprises 4,606.70 

acres of public land located within: 

Kateel River Meridian 

T. 7 N., R. 24 E., 

Secs. 13 to 16, 

Secs. 21 to 27, 

Secs. 34, 35, and 36; and 

T. 7 N., R. 25 E., 

Secs. 18, and 19 as described in PLO 

No. 6706 (54 FR 979, January 11, 

1989). A complete description, 

along with all other records 

pertaining to the extension 

application, can be examined in the 

BLM Alaska State Office at the 

address shown above. 

As extended, the withdrawal would 

not alter the application of those public 

land laws governing the use of land 

under lease, license, or permit or 

governing the disposal of the mineral or 

vegetative resources other than under 

the mining and mineral leasing laws. 

The use of a right-of-way or 

interagency or cooperative agreement 

would not adequately protect the 

Federal investment in the Indian 

Mountain Research Site. 

There are no suitable alternative sites 

available since the Indian Mountain 

Research Site is already constructed on 

the above-described public land. 

No water rights would be needed to 

fulfill the purpose of the requested 

withdrawal extension. 

For a period of 90 days from the date 

of publication of this notice, all persons 

who wish to submit comments, 

suggestions, or objections in connection 

with the proposed withdrawal extension 

may present their views in writing to 

the BLM Alaska State Director at the 

address indicated above. 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. Individual respondents may 

request confidentiality. If you wish to 

withhold your name or address from 

public review or from disclosure under 

the Freedom of Information Act, you 

must state this prominently at the 

beginning of your comments. Such 

requests will be honored 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. 

Notice is hereby given that an 

opportunity for a public meeting is 

afforded in connection with the 

proposed withdrawal extension. All 

interested parties who desire a public 

meeting for the purpose of being heard 

on the proposed extension must submit 

a written request to the BLM Alaska 

State Director within 90 days from the 

date of publication of this notice. Upon 

determination by the authorized officer 

that a public meeting will be held, a 

notice of the time and place will be 

published in the Federal Register at 

least 30 days before the scheduled date 

of the meeting. 

The withdrawal extension proposal 

will be processed in accordance with 

the regulations set forth in 43 CFR 

2310.4 and subject to Section 810 of the 

Alaska National Interest Lands 

Conservation Act, 16 U.S.C. 3120 

(2000). 

Authority: 43 CFR 2310.3–1(b). 

Dated: September 3, 2008. 

Carolyn J. Spoon, 

Chief, Branch of Lands and Realty. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Field Museum of Natural 

History, Chicago, IL 

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 in the 

possession of the Field Museum of 

Natural History (Field Museum), 

Chicago, IL, 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 cultural 

items. The National Park Service is not 

responsible for the determinations in 

this notice. 

The two cultural items are a rattle and 

a worked walrus tusk. 

The rattle (catalog number 78326) is 

carved wood with shell or glass bead 

rattlers. It is painted with blue and red 

mineral paints. The body of the rattle 

represents an oyster catcher. The handle 

of the rattle is wrapped with a strip of 

black leather, and string is wrapped 

around the upper neck of the oyster 

catcher. It measures approximately 13 

inches long and 3 inches wide. 

The worked walrus tusk (catalog 

number 78074) is comprised of four 

sections. Each section measures 

approximately 11 inches long. 

According to Field Museum records, 

the walrus tusk sections were ‘‘found in 

an old cave on a small Island in Icy 

Straits where a Shaman of the ‘Hoonah’

tribe was laid away.’’ The rattle was 

‘‘believed to have come from an old 

grave house on the shores of Frederick 

Bay, near the village of ‘Gan-der-kan,’ of 

the ‘Hoonah tribe’.’’

At an unknown date, Lieutenant 

Emmons acquired the walrus tusk 

sections and rattle. In 1902, the Field 

Museum of Natural History purchased 

the cultural items from Lieutenant 

Emmons, and accessioned them into its 

collection that same year. 

The cultural affiliation of the two 

cultural items is Hoonah Tlingit, as 

indicated through museum records and 

consultation with representatives of the 

Hoonah Indian Association. 

Officials of the Field Museum of 

Natural History have determined that, 

pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(B), the 

two 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 

a 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. Officials of the Field 

Museum of Natural History 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 objects and the 

Hoonah Indian Association. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the unassociated funerary 

objects should contact Helen Robbins, 

Repatriation Director, Field Museum of 

Natural History, 1400 South Lake Shore 

Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, telephone 

(312) 665–7317, before October 10, 

2008. Repatriation of the unassociated 

funerary objects to the Hoonah Indian 

Association may proceed after that date 

if no additional claimants come 

forward. 

The Field Museum of Natural History 

is responsible for notifying the Central 

Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian 

Tribes, Hoonah Indian Association, 


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Huna Totem Corporation, and Sealaska 

Heritage Foundation that this notice has 

been published. 

Dated: August 20, 2008 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. E8–21011 Filed 9–9–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 

Portland District, Portland, OR and 

Museum of Anthropology, Washington 

State University, Pullman, 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 in the 

control of the U.S. Department of 

Defense, Army Corps of Engineers, 

Portland District, Portland, OR, and in 

the possession of the Museum of 

Anthropology, Washington State 

University, Pullman, WA, 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 cultural 

items. The National Park Service is not 

responsible for the determinations in 

this notice. 

In 1982, human remains of one Native 

American individual and funerary 

objects were found eroding out of a 

streamside terrace and mixed in 

adjacent back dirt piles from site 35–

MW–32, also known as the Willow 

Creek Lake Site, in Morrow County, OR. 

The site is located immediately west of 

the confluence between Willow Creek 

and Balm Fork, near Heppner, OR. The 

human remains, cultural items, and a 

large concentration of butchered animal 

bones were first observed by an 

employee who was working on a nearby 

channeling and surface grading project 

related to Willow Creek Dam 

construction at the Willow Creek Lake 

Project area. It is undetermined if the 

human remains and cultural items came 

from an isolated burial or if the 

construction activity disturbed the edge 

of a larger burial ground. The human 

remains and cultural items were 

assessed on-site by archeologists and 

personnel from the University of Idaho, 

Moscow, ID. The Army Corps of 

Engineers, Walla Walla District, then 

collected and transferred the human 

remains and cultural items for further 

analysis to the University of Idaho, 

Laboratory of Anthropology. The human 

remains and funerary objects were later 

transferred to the Museum of 

Anthropology, Washington State 

University for temporary curation until 

the responsible agency and repository 

could be identified and contacted. 

In 1984, the human remains were 

repatriated to the Confederated Tribes of 

the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Oregon 

and reburied in Mission, OR. The 

funerary objects remained at the 

museum. The 51 unassociated funerary 

objects are 1 cobble pestle handle, 4 

fragments of a worked bone awl, 40 

pieces of chert debitage, 1 piece of 

basalt debitage, 2 pressed glassware 

fragments, and 3 square nails. 

Various Native American groups were 

known to follow Willow Creek and 

Balm Fork during travels to and from 

the mountainous areas. Although no 

dates of occupation were obtained by 

the researchers, the burial pattern 

observed within 35–WS–32 is consistent 

with the customs of Columbia Plateau 

Native American groups. Ethnographic 

and museum records indicate that the 

cultural items are consistent with 

cultural items typically found in context 

with burials characteristic of the MidColumbia River Basin. Oral histories 

and published ethnographic 

documentation indicate that site 35–

MW–32 is located within the traditional 

territory of the Confederated Tribes of 

the Umatilla Indian Reservation, 

Oregon. In particular, some 

ethnographic accounts place the site 

area within Umatilla and Cayuse home 

ranges during the equestrian period. 

Based on provenience, officials of the 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland 

District reasonably believe the 

unassociated funerary objects are 

culturally affiliated with the 

Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla 

Indian Reservation, Oregon. 

Officials of the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Portland District have 

determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 

3001 (3)(B), the 51 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 

preponderance of the evidence, to have 

been removed from a specific burial site 

of a Native American individual. 

Officials of the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Portland District have also 

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 objects and the 

Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla 

Indian Reservation, Oregon. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the unassociated funerary 

objects should contact Daniel Mulligan, 

NAGPRA Coordinator, Environmental 

Resources Branch, U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Portland District, P.O. Box 

2946, Portland, OR 97208–2946, 

telephone (503) 808–4768, before 

October 10, 2008. Repatriation of the 

unassociated funerary objects to the 

Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla 

Indian Reservation, Oregon may 

proceed after that date if no additional 

claimants come forward. 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 

Portland District is responsible for 

notifying the Confederated Tribes of the 

Umatilla Indian Reservation, Oregon 

that this notice has been published. 

Dated: August 18, 2008 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. E8–21010 Filed 9–9–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Brigham Young University, Museum of 

Peoples and Cultures, Provo, UT 

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. 3003, of the 

completion of an inventory of human 

remains in possession of the Brigham 

Young University, Museum of Peoples 

and Cultures, Provo, UT. The human 

remains were removed from Milliard 

County, UT. 

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 human remains. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains was made by Brigham Young 

University, Museum of Peoples and 

Cultures professional staff in 


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