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be completed to gain information on a 

variety of species from reptiles and 

amphibians to game animals, as well as 

species of concern. Several cooperative 

projects will be conducted with 

universities, the Louisiana Department 

of Wildlife and Fisheries, and other 

agencies and individuals to provide 

biological information to be used in 

management decisions. To determine 

how forest management is affecting 

wildlife, partnerships will be developed 

to establish scientifically valid protocols 

and to collaboratively work on research 

projects. Upland forest management will 

focus on restoring the biological 

integrity of a mixed hardwood/pine 

forest by promoting upland hardwood 

species. We will increase our 

management of bottomlands to open 

canopy cover and increase understory 

vegetation. Water control structures and 

pumping capabilities will be improved 

to enhance moist-soil management for 

the benefit of wintering waterfowl and 

shorebirds. Invasive species will be 

mapped and protocols for control 

established. Partnerships will continue 

to be fostered for several biological 

programs, hunting regulations, law 

enforcement issues, and research 

projects. 

Public use will be similar to current 

management, with a few improvements 

based on additional resources. 

Environmental education will increase 

from the current conditions only 

slightly. The program will be enhanced 

and improved with the addition of two 

park rangers (visitor services and law 

enforcement). Within 3 years of the date 

of the CCP, we will develop a Visitor 

Services Plan to be used in maintaining 

quality public use facilities and 

opportunities at Black Bayou Lake 

NWR. 

Staffing will increase by four 

positions: A full-time law enforcement 

officer, a refuge operations specialist, a 

maintenance worker, and a park ranger 

(Visitor Services). This will enable us to 

increase biological inventorying and 

monitoring, enhance forest 

management, increase invasives control, 

enhance the public use program, and 

provide safe and compatible wildlifedependent recreation. 

Authority 

This notice is published under the 

authority of the National Wildlife 

Refuge System Improvement Act of 

1997, Public Law 105–57. 

Dated: January 13, 2010. 

Jeffrey M. Fleming, 

Acting Regional Director. 

[FR Doc. 2010–21121 Filed 8–24–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Memphis Pink Palace Museum, 

Memphis, TN 

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 Memphis Pink Palace 

Museum, Memphis, TN, 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 92 unassociated funerary objects 

are whole and restored ceramic vessels 

from the Bradley site (3CT7), Crittenden 

County, AR. The collection was 

acquired as a donation from a private 

individual in 1958. 

The Bradley site was a village or town 

of the late Mississippian and protohistoric periods, located in Crittenden 

County, northeast Arkansas. 

Archeological evidence indicates that 

the site was occupied during the 

Nodena phase (A.D. 1350–1650). 

Funerary objects removed from the site 

have been dated to the period from A.D. 

1350–1650. The Bradley site is thought 

to be the capital of ‘‘Pacaha’’ identified 

in the DeSoto chronicles. Historical 

documentation indicates that this site 

dates into the 17th century and close to 

the time when the Quapaw Tribe was 

documented by early Europeans. 

Linguistic evidence indicates a possible 

link between ‘‘Capaha’’ (a.k.a. Pacaha) in 

a Spanish account, and a late 17th 

century Quapaw Indian village name 

‘‘Kappah’’ or ‘‘Kappa.’’ French maps and 

documents (A.D. 1673–1720), indicate 

that only the Quapaw had villages in 

this area of eastern Arkansas. Oral 

traditional evidence indicates that the 

Quapaw had a continuous presence in 

the area, including hunting lands, and 

that burial practices such as placement 

of food with the dead continues to be an 

important burial ritual. 

Archeological, historical and 

ethnographic sources indicate that the 

type of pottery found at the Bradley site 

was produced by the Quapaw (Morse 

1992). Descendants of the Quapaw are 

members of the Quapaw Tribe of 

Indians, Oklahoma. Finally, the Quapaw 

Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma, through the 

NAGPRA process, have previously been 

determined to be culturally affiliated 

with the Bradley site and have 

repatriated Native American human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

from the site. 

Officials of the Memphis Pink Palace 

Museum have determined that, 

pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the 92 

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. Officials of the Memphis 

Pink Palace Museum 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 Quapaw Tribe 

of Indians, Oklahoma. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the unassociated funerary 

objects should contact Louella Weaver, 

Memphis Pink Palace Museum, 3050 

Central Ave., Memphis, TN 38111, 

telephone (901) 320–6322, before 

September 24, 2010. Repatriation of the 

unassociated funerary objects to the 

Quapaw Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma, 

may proceed after that date if no 

additional claimants come forward. 

The Memphis Pink Palace Museum is 

responsible for notifying the Quapaw 

Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma, that this 

notice has been published. 

Dated: August 19, 2010 

David Tarler, 

Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2010–21191 Filed 8–24–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–50–S 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Department of Anthropology and 

Ethnic Studies, University of Nevada 

Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 

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 


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