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period. Comments primarily addressed 

concerns with tortoise mitigation, 

groundwater drawdown, visual resource 

management, and air quality/dust 

control during construction. 

Comments on the Draft EIS received 

from the public and internal BLM 

review were considered and are 

incorporated as appropriate into the 

Final EIS. 

Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6 and 1506.10. 

Robert B. Ross, Jr., 

Las Vegas Field Manager. 

[FR Doc. 2010–23334 Filed 9–14–10; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 4310–HC–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLMT926000–10–L19100000–BJ0000– 

LRCM08RS4649] 

Notice of Filing of Plats of Survey; 

Montana 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of filing of plats of 

survey. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) will file the plat of 

survey of the lands described below in 

the BLM Montana State Office, Billings, 

Montana, on October 20, 2010. 

DATES: Protests of the survey must be 

filed before October 20, 2010 to be 

considered. 

ADDRESSES: Protests of the survey 

should be sent to Branch of Cadastral 

Survey, Bureau of Land Management, 

5001 Southgate Drive, Billings, Montana 

59101–4669. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Marvin Montoya, Cadastral Surveyor, 

Branch of Cadastral Survey, Bureau of 

Land Management, 5001 Southgate 

Drive, Billings, Montana 59101–4669, 

telephone (406) 896–5124 or (406) 896– 

5009. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

survey was executed at the request of 

the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Rocky 

Mountain Region, Billings, Montana, 

and was necessary to determine 

individual and tribal trust lands. 

The lands we surveyed are: 

Principal Meridian, Montana 

T. 27 N., R. 52 E. 

The plat, in 1 sheet, representing the 

corrective dependent resurvey of a 

portion of the section line between 

sections 12 and 13, the dependent 

resurvey of a portion of the 

subdivisional lines, a portion of the 

subdivision of sections 11 and 13, and 

the adjusted original meanders of the 

former left bank of the Missouri River, 

downstream, through sections 11 and 

13, the subdivision of sections 11 and 

13, and the survey of the meanders of 

the present left bank of the Missouri 

River and an informative traverse, 

downstream, through portions of 

sections 11 and 13 and certain division 

of accretion lines in Township 27 North, 

Range 52 East, Principal Meridian, 

Montana, was accepted September 3, 

2010. 

We will place a copy of the plat, in 

1 sheet, and related field notes we 

described in the open files. They will be 

available to the public as a matter of 

information. If the BLM receives a 

protest against this survey, as shown on 

this plat, in 1 sheet, prior to the date of 

the official filing, we will stay the filing 

pending our consideration of the 

protest. We will not officially file this 

plat, in 1 sheet, until the day after we 

have accepted or dismissed all protests 

and they have become final, including 

decisions or appeals. 

Authority: 43 U.S.C. Chap. 3. 

Dated: September 14, 2010. 

James D. Claflin, 

Chief Cadastral Surveyor, Division of 

Resources. 

[FR Doc. 2010–23379 Filed 9–17–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–DN–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Intent to Repatriate a Cultural 

Item: Oshkosh Public Museum, 

Oshkosh, WI 

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 Oshkosh Public 

Museum, Oshkosh, WI, 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 cultural item is a partially 

reconstructed and undecorated shelltempered ceramic bowl, 8 cm high and 

12 cm in diameter. The bowl was 

reconstructed and labeled ‘‘47/WN/139 

Vessel Q’’ by the University of 

Wisconsin-Oshkosh. After 

reconstruction, the University returned 

the bowl to the landowner, Gerald Lee. 

According to the Wisconsin State site 

report (47–WN–139) the bowl is a small 

undecorated shell-tempered pot that 

was found in 1971. It was found in 

association with an adult burial on the 

property of Gerald Lee in Poygan, WI, 

and the burial was reburied at St. 

Thomas Cemetery, Omro, WI. The 

Oshkosh Public Museum accessioned 

the bowl on April 27, 2010, after Dennis 

Lee, son of Gerald Lee, donated the 

bowl to the museum. 

The Wisconsin State site report lists 

the cultural affiliation for the Gerald Lee 

site as Late Woodland, Oneota and 

Unknown Prehistoric. The vessel is 

identified as Oneota by Carol L. Mason 

in ‘‘Site Survey of Upland and 

Endangered Areas of Winnebago and 

Green Lake Counties,’’ (Reports of 

Investigations, Number 6, University of 

Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 1995, p. A–11). 

In response to notification letters sent 

by the Oshkosh Public Museum, the HoChunk Nation has claimed the bowl. In 

support of their claim, the Ho-Chunk 

Nation stated that present-day 

archeology recognizes shell-tempered 

ceramics as Oneota in origin and 

strongly suggests that the Ho-chunk, 

Iowa, Otoe and Missouri are present-day 

descendents of the Oneota. The HoChunk Nation further claim that their 

oral tradition coincides with an Oneota 

origin and that the Poygan,WI, area is 

part of the their aboriginal homeland. 

Officials of the Oshkosh Public 

Museum 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 preponderance of the 

evidence, to have been removed from a 

specific burial site of a Native American 

individual. Officials of the Oshkosh 

Public 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 

object and the Ho-Chunk Nation of 

Wisconsin; Iowa Tribe of Kansas and 

Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; 

Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, 

Oklahoma; and Winnebago Tribe of 

Nebraska. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the unassociated funerary 


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