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human cranial bone, which was 

contained together with the dentition in 

a display case. 

On an unknown date, human remains 

consisting of 22 loose teeth, 

representing, at minimum, 5 individuals 

(seizure-item number 817890–2) were 

removed from an unknown location in 

the Finger Lakes region of New York, 

and more likely than not in Ontario 

County, NY. Adults and children of 

both sexes are represented. The age of 

one child is 9 or 10 years. Five teeth, 

which represent two individuals, have 

green copper oxide staining. This type 

of staining is often seen in Protohistoric 

and historic burials. Prominent 

shoveling and double-shoveling are 

indicative of Native American descent. 

On an unknown date, human remains 

consisting of 53 loose teeth, 

representing, at minimum, 8 individuals 

(seizure-item number 817890–5) were 

removed from an unknown location in 

the Finger Lakes region of New York, 

and more likely than not in Ontario 

County, NY. Adults and children of 

both sexes are represented. The age of 

one child is 8 to 81⁄2 years, and the other 

is 101⁄2 to 11 years. Four teeth, which 

represent one individual, have taken on 

an orange hue. Prominent shoveling and 

double-shoveling are indicative of 

Native American descent. 

On May 9, 2002, as part of a criminal 

investigation, the USFWS OLE 

purchased a display case containing 

what was suspected to be Native 

American human remains (seizure-item 

number 817879–1). The display case 

contained what appeared to be human 

teeth and a bone rondel. The human 

remains were being sold by an antique 

store in the Finger Lakes region of New 

York. On June 26, 2002, as part of the 

same investigation, the USFWS OLE 

seized further items suspected to be 

Native American human remains 

(seizure-item numbers 817890–2 and 

817890–5), which were being held by a 

private individual, who also supplied 

the antiques store with the previously 

purchased human remains. The 

individual offered these items for sale to 

the USFWS OLE. After lengthy litigation 

regarding the case, the Department of 

Justice transferred the items to the 

USFWS OLE for NAGPRA compliance. 

The Reed Farm site suggests a 

Protohistoric or historic time frame and, 

based on historical evidence, are 

believed to represent early historic 

Seneca villages. Archeological evidence 

indicates that the Owasco culture 

occupied central and eastern New York 

and the Glaciated Alleghany Plateau 

during the Woodland Stage (1000 B.C.— 

A.D. 1600). Around A.D. 1600, the 

Owasco culture underwent a transition. 

Between A.D. 1450 and 1600, diagnostic 

characteristics indicative of the Seneca 

culture begin to become evident in the 

archeological record. Seneca occupation 

of Ontario County, NY, is welldocumented. From the early 16th 

century until the American Revolution, 

the Seneca occupied a region between 

the Genesee River and Canandaigua 

Lake, which includes Livingston and 

Ontario Counties, NY, as well as the 

southern portion of Monroe County, NY. 

Today, the Seneca are represented by 

three federally recognized Indian Tribes: 

The Seneca Nation of Indians 

(previously listed as the Seneca Nation 

of New York); Seneca-Cayuga Nation 

(previously listed as the Seneca-Cayuga 

Tribe of Oklahoma); and Tonawanda 

Band of Seneca (previously listed as the 

Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians of 

New York). 

Determinations Made by the U.S. 

Department of Interior, Fish and 

Wildlife Service, Office of Law 

Enforcement 

Officials of the USFWS OLE have 

determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the 

human remains described in this notice 

represent the physical remains of a 

minimum of 25 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), 

the one object described in this notice 

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. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there 

is a relationship of shared group 

identity that can be reasonably traced 

between the Native American human 

remains and associated funerary object 

and the Seneca Nation of Indians 

(previously listed as the Seneca Nation 

of New York); Seneca-Cayuga Nation 

(previously listed as the Seneca-Cayuga 

Tribe of Oklahoma); and Tonawanda 

Band of Seneca (previously listed as the 

Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians of 

New York). 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

Lineal descendants or representatives 

of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to request transfer of control 

of these human remains and associated 

funerary object should submit a written 

request with information in support of 

the request to Steve Oberholtzer, Special 

Agent in Charge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service Office of Law Enforcement, 

Mountain-Prairie Region, P.O. Box 

25486—DFC, Denver, CO 80225, 

telephone (303) 236–7893, email steve_

oberholtzer@fws.gov, by October 5, 

2017. After that date, if no additional 

requestors have come forward, transfer 

of control of the human remains and 

associated funerary object to the Seneca 

Nation of Indians (previously listed as 

the Seneca Nation of New York); 

Seneca-Cayuga Nation (previously listed 

as the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of 

Oklahoma); and Tonawanda Band of 

Seneca (previously listed as the 

Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians of 

New York) may proceed. 

The USFWS OLE is responsible for 

notifying the Cayuga Nation; Oneida 

Nation (previously listed as the Oneida 

Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin); Oneida 

Nation of New York; Onondaga Nation; 

Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe (previously 

listed as the St. Regis Band of Mohawk 

Indians of New York); Seneca Nation of 

Indians (previously listed as the Seneca 

Nation of New York); Seneca-Cayuga 

Nation (previously listed as the SenecaCayuga Tribe of Oklahoma); Tonawanda 

Band of Seneca (previously listed as the 

Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians of 

New York); Tuscarora Nation; and the 

Haudenosaunee Standing Committee on 

Burial Rules & Regulations that this 

notice has been published. 

Dated: August 29, 2017. 

Sarah Glass, 

Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2017–18683 Filed 9–1–17; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–23726; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and 

Arizona State Museum, University of 

Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Correction 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; correction. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the 

Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and 

Arizona State Museum, University of 

Arizona, have corrected an inventory of 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects, originally published in a Notice 

of Inventory Completion in the Federal 

Register on February 27, 2012, and 

subsequently published in a corrected 

Notice of Inventory Completion in the 

Federal Register on November 17, 2014. 

This notice corrects the minimum 

number of individuals and number of 

associated funerary objects. Lineal 

descendants or representatives of any 

Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

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that wish to request transfer of control 

of these human remains and associated 

funerary objects should submit a written 

request to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 

If no additional requestors come 

forward, transfer of control of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects to the lineal descendants, Indian 

tribes, or Native Hawaiian organizations 

stated in this notice may proceed. 

DATES: Lineal descendants or 

representatives of any Indian tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

request transfer of control of these 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects should submit a written request 

with information in support of the 

request to the Bureau of Indian Affairs 

at the address in this notice by October 

5, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Anna Pardo, NAGPRA 

Coordinator, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

12220 Sunrise Valley Drive, Room 6084, 

Reston, VA 20191, telephone (703) 390– 

6343, email Anna.Pardo@bia.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

here given in accordance with the 

Native American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 

3003, of the correction of an inventory 

of human remains and associated 

funerary objects under the control of the 

U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau 

of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and 

in the physical custody of the Arizona 

State Museum, University of Arizona, 

Tucson, AZ (ASM). The human remains 

and associated funerary objects were 

removed from a location within the 

boundaries of the Fort Apache Indian 

Reservation, Navajo County, AZ. 

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 and 

associated funerary objects. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

This notice corrects the minimum 

number of individuals and number of 

associated funerary objects originally 

published in a Notice of Inventory 

Completion in the Federal Register (77 

FR 11578–11580, February 27, 2012) 

and subsequently published in a 

corrected Notice of Inventory 

Completion in the Federal Register (79 

FR 68472–68473, November 17, 2014). 

The number of human remains and 

associated funerary objects increased 

due a search through uncatalogued 

object collections. 

Correction 

In the Federal Register (79 FR 68473, 

November 17, 2014), column 1, 

paragraphs 3 and 4, under the heading 

‘‘Correction,’’ are corrected by 

substituting the following paragraphs: 

In the Federal Register (77 FR 11579, 

February 27, 2012), paragraph 7 is corrected 

by substituting the following paragraph: 

In the years 1963 through 1977, human 

remains representing, at minimum, 1,023 

individuals were removed from the 

Grasshopper Pueblo site AZ P:14:1(ASM), in 

Navajo County, AZ, as a result of legally 

authorized excavations conducted by the 

University of Arizona Archaeological Field 

School. Archeological collections from the 

site were brought to the museum at the end 

of each field season. No known individuals 

were identified. The 10,418 associated 

funerary objects are 710 animal bones, 2 

animal skeletons, 1 antler wrench, 9 antler 

artifacts, 9 lots of beads of unidentified 

material, 21 bird bones, 1 bird effigy pendant, 

6 bird skeletons, 1 bird skull, 31 bone 

artifacts, 53 bone awls, 9 bone awl fragments, 

6 lots of bone beads, 2 bone needles, 47 bone 

rings, 1 bone spatula, 1 bone tool, 1 bone 

wand, 9 lots of botanical material, 2 ceramic 

artifacts, 719 ceramic bowls, 8 ceramic bowl 

fragments, 2 ceramic canteens, 1 ceramic 

figurine fragment, 223 ceramic jars, 7 ceramic 

jar fragments, 1 ceramic ladle, 4 ceramic 

mugs, 1 ceramic pendant, 9 ceramic pitchers, 

2 ceramic plates, 1 ceramic platter, 3 ceramic 

scoops, 4,960 ceramic sherds, 7 ceramic 

sherd artifacts, 27 ceramic vessels, 7 ceramic 

vessel fragments, 21 chipped stone cores, 2 

chipped stone drills, 2 chipped stone firecracked rocks, 2,233 chipped stone flakes, 1 

chipped stone scraper, 1 clay sample, 14 

crystals, 22 flotation samples, 10 fossils, 3 

ground stones, 16 hammerstones, 1 

handstone, 17 manos, 2 mano fragments, 8 

lots of matting, 45 minerals, 3 mortars, 1 

mosaic shell, 4 lots of organic material, 96 

pebbles, 2 pecking stones, 12 pendants, 18 

polishing stones, 6 pollen samples, 57 quartz 

crystals, 12 lots of raw material, 5 shaft 

straighteners, 111 shells, 3 lots of shell and 

stone beads, 7 shell artifacts, 1 shell artifact 

fragment, 32 lots of shell beads, 49 shell 

bracelets, 6 shell bracelet fragments, 25 shell 

pendants, 3 shell pendant fragments, 12 shell 

rings, 62 shell tinklers, 9 snail shells, 2 soil 

impressions, 58 soil samples, 14 stone 

artifacts, 1 stone axe, 8 lots of stone beads, 

3 stone blades, 1 stone bowl, 1 stone disk, 6 

stone figurines, 9 stone knives, 2 stone 

pendants, 257 stone projectile points, 7 stone 

scrapers, 2 stone shaft smoothers, 4 stone 

slabs, 12 tree ring samples, 5 lots of turquoise 

beads, 112 turquoise pendants, 58 turquoise 

tesserae, 1 lot of unidentified material, 1 lot 

of unidentified organic material, 4 wood 

fragments, 9 worked and unworked bones, 

and 3 worked stone flakes. 

In the Federal Register (79 FR 68473, 

November 17, 2014), column 2, 

paragraphs 1 through 4, under the 

heading ‘‘Correction,’’ are corrected by 

substituting the following paragraphs: 

In the Federal Register (77 FR 11580, 

February 27, 2012), paragraph 5 is corrected 

by substituting the following paragraph: 

Pursuant to 25 U.S.C 3001(9), the human 

remains described in this notice represent the 

physical remains of 1,023 individuals or 

Native American ancestry. 

In the Federal Register (77 FR 11580, 

February 27, 2012), paragraph 6 is corrected 

by substituting the following paragraph: 

Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 

10,418 objects described above are 

reasonably believed to have been placed with 

or near individual human remains at the time 

of death or later as a part of the death rite 

or ceremony. 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

Lineal descendants or representatives 

of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to request transfer of control 

of these human remains and associated 

funerary objects should submit a written 

request with information in support of 

the request to Anna Pardo, NAGPRA 

Coordinator, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

12220 Sunrise Valley Drive, Room 6084, 

Reston, VA 20191, telephone (703) 390– 

6343, email Anna.Pardo@bia.gov, by 

October 5, 2017. After that date, if no 

additional requestors have come 

forward, transfer of control of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona and 

Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New 

Mexico may proceed. 

The Arizona State Museum is 

responsible for notifying the Hopi Tribe 

of Arizona; White Mountain Apache 

Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, 

Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 

Reservation, New Mexico, that this 

notice has been published. 

Dated: August 29, 2017. 

Sarah Glass, 

Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2017–18684 Filed 9–1–17; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0023810] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, 

TN 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Tennessee Valley 

Authority (TVA) has completed an 

inventory of human remains and 

associated funerary objects, in 

consultation with the appropriate 

federally recognized Indian Tribes, and 

has determined that a cultural affiliation 

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