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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. 

Native American cultural items 

described in this notice were excavated 

under Antiquities Act permits by the 

University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, on 

Army Corps of Engineers project land. 

Following excavations at the site 

described below, and under the 

provisions of the permits, the University 

of Oregon retained the collections for 

preservation. 

Between 1959 and 1968, cultural 

items were removed from site 35–GM– 

9, also known as the Wildcat Canyon 

site, Gilliam County, OR, during 

excavations by the University of Oregon 

prior to construction of the John Day 

Dam. The cultural items were 

accessioned by the University of Oregon 

Museum following each successive field 

season. The 1,420 objects recovered 

from Area 3 of site 35–GM–9, a 

cemetery primarily used from 

approximately 2,500–2,000 B.P., are 

categorized as unassociated funerary 

objects because specific associations 

with individual burials cannot be 

determined due to unclear spatial 

distributions of the artifacts in relation 

to particular sets of human remains. The 

1,420 unassociated funerary objects are 

32 projectile points, 25 projectile point 

fragments, 30 blades, 52 blade 

fragments, 1 multipurpose tool, 3 stone 

mauls, 1 obsidian chopper, 17 pestles, 

14 pestle fragments, 1 hammerstone, 10 

worked/flaked cobbles, 5 river pebbles, 

1 flaked pebble, 1 rectangular flat stone, 

1 flake knife, 12 gravers, 7 burins, 1 

spokeshave, 1 core, 12 scrapers, 2 end 

scraper fragments, 12 bifaciallymodified flakes, 55 unifacially-modified 

flakes, 7 curved flakes, 1 lamellar flake, 

2 worked chert flakes, 935 unmodified 

flakes, 3 stone drills, 6 drill fragments, 

5 stone clinkers, 1 possible metate, 1 

galena atlatl weight, 1 bolas stone, 1 

polishing stone, 2 worked shale or slate 

fragments, 5 abraders, 1 shaft smoother, 

2 shaft smoother fragments, 1 antler awl 

fragment, 3 bone awl fragments, 1 bone 

shaft wrench, 1 bone tube, 17 worked 

antlers, 10 burned antlers, 1 deer jaw, 19 

worked bones, 1 cut bone, 1 burned 

bone fragment, 1 notched bone, 2 

decorated bones, 3 bone strips, 52 

miscellaneous non-human bones and 

bone fragments, 2 stone pendant 

fragments, 1 shell pendant, 1 pebble 

pendant, 2 dentalia, 1 unspecified bead, 

14 bone beads, 1 antler bead, 2 nose 

plugs, 1 worked pumice piece, 8 red 

ochre pieces, 1 shell, 1 grooved slate 

tool and 3 shell flecks. 

Site 35–GM–9 is located along the 

south side shoreline of the Columbia 

River, approximately 9.5 river miles east 

of the John Day River confluence. The 

multicomponent site contains multiple 

activity areas that are believed to have 

been repeatedly occupied from 

approximately 9,000 B.P. to A.D. 1750. 

Site 35–GM–9 frequently served as a 

village, camping area and cemetery. 

Area 3 is believed to have primarily 

served as a burial area. The burial 

pattern observed within Area 3 is 

consistent with customs of Columbia 

Plateau Native American groups. 

Excavation and museum documentation 

indicate that the objects are consistent 

with cultural items typically found in 

context with burials characteristic of the 

Mid-Columbia River Basin. 

Oral traditions and ethnographic 

reports indicate that site 35–GM–9 lies 

within the historic territory of Sahaptinspeaking Tenino or Warm Springs 

peoples whose descendants are 

culturally affiliated with the present-day 

Confederated Tribes of the Warm 

Springs Reservation of Oregon. The 

Confederated Tribes of the Warm 

Springs Reservation are composed of 

three Wasco bands, four Warm Springs 

bands, and Northern Paiutes. The 

Columbia River-based Wasco were the 

easternmost group of Chinookanspeaking Indians. The Sahaptinspeaking Warm Springs bands lived 

farther east along the Columbia River 

and its tributaries. Northern Paiutes, 

who spoke a Uto-Aztecan language, 

historically occupied much of 

southeastern Oregon. The Confederated 

Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation 

of Oregon peoples also traditionally 

shared the site area with relatives and 

neighbors whose descendants may be 

culturally affiliated with the 14 

Sahaptin, Salish and Chinookanspeaking tribes and bands of the 

present-day Confederated Tribes and 

Bands of the Yakama Nation, 

Washington. Yakama homelands were 

traditionally located on the Washington 

side of the Columbia River between the 

eastern flanks of the Cascade Range and 

the lower reaches of the Yakima River 

drainage. 

Officials of the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Portland District, and 

University of Oregon Museum of 

Natural and Cultural History, have 

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

3001(3)(B), the 1,420 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 specific burial sites 

of Native American individuals. 

Officials of the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Portland District, and 

University of Oregon Museum of 

Natural and Cultural History, 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 Warm Springs Reservation 

of Oregon and/or Confederated Tribes 

and Bands of the Yakama Nation, 

Washington. 

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 

November 22, 2010. Repatriation of the 

unassociated funerary objects to the 

Confederated Tribes of the Warm 

Springs Reservation of Oregon and/or 

Confederated Tribes and Bands of the 

Yakama Nation, Washington, 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 

Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon; 

Confederated Tribes and Bands of the 

Yakama Nation, Washington; 

Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla 

Indian Reservation, Oregon; and Nez 

Perce Tribe, Idaho, that this notice has 

been published. 

Dated: October 14, 2010. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2010–26466 Filed 10–20–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Flight 93 National Memorial Advisory 

Commission 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of November 13, 2010, 

Meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the date 

of the November 13, 2010, meeting of 

the Flight 93 Advisory Commission. 

DATES: The public meeting of the 

Advisory Commission will be held on 

Saturday, November 13, 2010, from 

10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Eastern). The 


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Commission will meet jointly with the 

Flight 93 Memorial Task Force. 

Location: The meeting will be held at 

the Somerset County Courthouse, Court 

Room #1, located at 111 E. Union Street, 

Somerset, PA 15501. 

Agenda 

The November 13, 2010, joint 

Commission and Task Force meeting 

will consist of: 

1. Opening of Meeting and Pledge of 

Allegiance. 

2. Review and Approval of 

Commission Minutes from August 7, 

2010. 

3. Reports from the Flight 93 

Memorial Task Force and National Park 

Service. 

4. Old Business. 

5. New Business. 

6. Public Comments. 

7. Closing Remarks. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joanne M. Hanley, Superintendent, 

Flight 93 National Memorial, 109 West 

Main Street, Somerset, PA 15501. 

814.443.4557. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

meeting will be open to the public. Any 

member of the public may file with the 

Commission a written statement 

concerning agenda items. Address all 

statements to: Flight 93 Advisory 

Commission, 109 West Main Street, 

Somerset, PA 15501. 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. 

Dated: September 28, 2010. 

Joanne M. Hanley, 

Superintendent, Flight 93 National Memorial. 

[FR Doc. 2010–26462 Filed 10–20–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Native American Graves Protection 

and Repatriation Review Committee: 

Nomination Solicitation 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Review 

Committee; Notice of Nomination 

Solicitation. 

The National Park Service is soliciting 

nominations for two members of the 

Native American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Review Committee. The 

Secretary of the Interior will appoint the 

two members from nominations 

submitted by national museum 

organizations and scientific 

organizations. 

Nominations must— 

1. Be submitted on organization 

letterhead, and include the nominator’s 

original signature and daytime 

telephone number. Also, the nominator 

must be the official authorized by the 

organization to submit nominations in 

response to this solicitation, and the 

nomination must include a statement 

that the nominator is so authorized. 

2. Include the following information 

about the nominee: 

a. The nominee’s full legal name, 

home address, home telephone number, 

and e-mail address; and 

b. The nominee’s resume or a brief 

biography of the nominee, in which the 

nominee’s NAGPRA experience and 

ability to work effectively as a member 

of a Federal advisory board are 

addressed. 

DATES: Nominations must be received 

by December 20, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Address nominations to 

David Tarler, Designated Federal 

Officer, Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Review 

Committee, National NAGPRA Program, 

National Park Service, 1201 Eye Street, 

NW., 8th Floor (2253), Washington, DC 

20005. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. The Review Committee was 

established by the Native American 

Graves Protection and Repatriation Act 

of 1990 (NAGPRA), at 25 U.S.C. 3006. 

2. The Review Committee is 

responsible for: 

a. Monitoring the NAGPRA inventory 

and identification process; 

b. Reviewing and making findings 

related to the identity or cultural 

affiliation of cultural items, or the return 

of such items; 

c. Facilitating the resolution of 

disputes relating to the return of such 

items; 

d. Compiling an inventory of 

culturally unidentifiable human 

remains and developing a process for 

disposition of such remains; 

e. Consulting with Indian Tribes and 

Native Hawaiian organizations and 

museums on matters within the scope of 

the work of the Review Committee 

affecting such Tribes or organizations; 

f. Consulting with the Secretary of the 

Interior in the development of 

regulations to carry out NAGPRA; and 

g. Making recommendations regarding 

future care of cultural items that are to 

be repatriated. 

3. Seven members make up the 

Review Committee. All members are 

appointed by the Secretary of the 

Interior. The Secretary may not appoint 

Federal officers or employees to the 

Review Committee. 

a. Three members are appointed from 

nominations submitted by Indian 

Tribes, Native Hawaiian organizations, 

and traditional Native American 

religious leaders. At least two of these 

members must be traditional Indian 

religious leaders. 

b. Three members are appointed from 

nominations submitted by national 

museum organizations and scientific 

organizations. 

c. One member is appointed from a 

list of persons developed and consented 

to by all of the other members. 

4. Members serve as Special 

Governmental Employees, and are 

required to submit confidential financial 

disclosure reports and to complete 

ethics training on an annual basis. 

5. Members are appointed for 4-year 

terms; incumbent members may be 

reappointed for 2-year terms. 

6. The Review Committee’s work is 

completed during public meetings. The 

Review Committee normally meets faceto-face two times per year, with each 

meeting lasting two or three days. The 

Review Committee also may hold one or 

more public teleconferences of several 

hours duration. 

7. Review Committee members are 

compensated for their participation in 

Review Committee meetings. 

8. Review Committee members are 

reimbursed for travel expenses incurred 

in association with Review Committee 

meetings. 

9. Additional information regarding 

the Review Committee—its charter, 

meeting procedures, findings 

procedures, dispute procedures, and 

annual reports to the Congress—is 

available on the National NAGPRA 

program Web site, at http:// 

www.nps.gov/nagpra (click ‘‘Review 

Committee’’ in the menu located in the 

right-hand column). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Tarler, Designated Federal 

Officer, Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Review 

Committee, National NAGPRA Program, 

National Park Service, 1201 Eye Street, 

NW., 8th Floor (2253), Washington, DC 

20005; telephone (202) 354–2108; e-mail 

david_tarler@nps.gov. 


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