Federal Register / Vol. 67, No. 8 / Friday, January 11, 2002 / Notices 1507
Dated: December 13, 2001. Georgia Department of Transportation/ Kialegee Tribal Town, Oklahoma; Robert Stearns, Federal Highway Administration Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Oklahoma; Program Manager, National NAGPRA contract M-750 (4). The remains are Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida; Program. curated at the Antonio J. Waring,, Jr., Poarch Band of Creek Indians of [FR Doc. 02–735 Filed 01–10–02; 8:45 am] Archaeology Laboratory, State Alabama; Seminole Nation of Florida; BILLING CODE 4310–70–S University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Seminole Nation of Oklahoma; GA. No known individual was Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, Oklahoma; identified. The six associated funerary and United Keetoowah Band of DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR objects are two columella shell ear pins, Cherokee Indians of Oklahoma. two faceted glass beads, one partial Representatives of any other Indian tribe National Park Service shell-tempered plain globular jar with that believes itself to be culturally flaring rim, and one chert biface. affiliated with these human remains and Notice of Inventory Completion for The Rae’s Creek site is located near associated funerary objects should Native American Human Remains and the confluence of Rae’s Creek and the Associated Funerary Objects in the contact Eric Anthony Duff, NAGPRA Savannah River. The human remains Coordinator, Georgia Department of Possession of the State University of and associated funerary objects date to West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, and in Transportation, Office of Environment/ the 1600s through the early 1700s based Location, 3993 Aviation Circle, Atlanta, the Control of the Georgia Department on artifacts recovered from the site. The of Transportation, Atlanta, GA GA 30336-1593, e-mail ceramic vessel (a globular, flaring rim, [email protected], telephone AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. shell-tempered vessel) form is (404) 699-4437, facsimile (404) 699- ACTION: Notice. consistent with late Mouse Creek and/ 4440, before February 11, 2002. or Dallas phase occupations (A.D. 1450- Repatriation of the human remains and Notice is hereby given in accordance 1625) in eastern Tennessee, while the associated funerary objects to the with provisions of the Native American faceted glass beads indicate an early Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town, Graves Protection and Repatriation Act 1700s date. These artifacts suggest a Oklahoma; Kialegee Tribal Town, (NAGPRA), 43 CFR 10.9, of the Creek Indian affiliation. Consultation Oklahoma; Muscogee (Creek) Nation, completion of an inventory of human evidence presented by representatives of Oklahoma; Poarch Band of Creek remains and associated funerary objects the Creek tribal governments indicates Indians of Alabama; and Thlopthlocco in the possession of the State University this area was within the traditional Tribal Town, Oklahoma may begin after of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, and in occupation territory of the Creeks that date if no additional claimants the control of the Georgia Department of during this time period. come forward. Transportation, Atlanta, GA. Based on the above-mentioned This notice is published as part of the information, officials of the Georgia Dated: December 13, 2001. National Park Service’s administrative Department of Transportation have Robert Stearns, responsibilities under NAGPRA, 43 CFR determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR Program Manager, National NAGPRA 10.2 (c). The determinations within this 10.2 (d)(1), the human remains listed Program. notice are the sole responsibility of the above represent the physical remains of [FR Doc. 02–734 Filed 1–10–02; 8:45 am] museum, institution, or Federal agency one individual of Native American BILLING CODE 4310–70–S that has control of these Native ancestry. Officials of the Georgia American human remains and Department of Transportation also have associated funerary objects. The determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE National Park Service is not responsible 10.2 (d)(2), the six objects listed above for the determinations within this are reasonably believed to have been Drug Enforcement Administration notice. placed with or near individual human A detailed assessment of the human remains at the time of death or later as [DEA–224N] remains was made by Georgia part of the death rite or ceremony. RIN 1117–AA60 Department of Transportation in Lastly, officials of the Georgia consultation with representatives of the Department of Transportation also have Notice of Intent To Conduct Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town, determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR Performance Verification Testing of Oklahoma; Catawba Indian Nation (also 10.2 (e), there is a relationship of shared Public Key Infrastructure Enabled known as Catawba Tribe of South group identity that can be reasonably Controlled Substance Orders Carolina); Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma; traced between these Native American AGENCY: Drug Enforcement Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma; Eastern human remains and associated funerary Administration (DEA), Justice. Band of Cherokee Indians of North objects and the Alabama-Quassarte Carolina; Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Tribal Town, Oklahoma; Kialegee Tribal ACTION: Notice. Oklahoma; Kialegee Tribal Town, Town, Oklahoma; Muscogee (Creek) SUMMARY: As part of its Electronic Oklahoma; Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Nation, Oklahoma; Poarch Band of Commerce Initiatives, DEA, in Oklahoma; Poarch Band of Creek Creek Indians of Alabama; and partnership with the Health Care Indians of Alabama; Thlopthlocco Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, Oklahoma. Distribution Management Association Tribal Town, Oklahoma; and United This notice has been sent to officials (HDMA) and the National Association of Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians of of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS), announces Oklahoma. Texas; Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town, In 1988, human remains representing Oklahoma; Catawba Indian Nation (also its intent to conduct a pilot project to one individual were excavated from the known as Catawba Tribe of South test PKI-enabled controlled substances Rae’s Creek site (9Ri327), Richmond Carolina); Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma; orders. County, GA, by Dr. Morgan R. Crook, Jr., Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma; Eastern DATES: Persons interested in of Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Band of Cherokee Indians of North participating in this pilot project must The work was conducted as part of a Carolina; Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; notify DEA of participation no later than highway construction project under Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; January 25, 2002.
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