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authorization to proceed with the Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of In 2006 and 2009, a detailed Process upon receipt of formal Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa assessment of the human remains and responses from the Jicarilla Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa associated funerary objects was made by Nation, New Mexico and Kiowa Indian Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santo Colorado Historical Society professional Tribe of Oklahoma, subject to Domingo, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, staff in consultation with forthcoming conditions imposed by the New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New representatives of the Arapahoe Tribe of Secretary of the Interior. On May 15–16, Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; 2008, the responses from the Jicarilla Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Apache Nation, New Mexico and Kiowa , South Dakota; San Oklahoma (formerly Cheyenne and Indian Tribe of Oklahoma were Juan Southern Paiute Tribe of Arizona; Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma); submitted to the Review Committee. On Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Nation, Oklahoma; Crow September 23, 2008, the Assistant Hall Reservation of Idaho; Shoshone Tribe of Montana; Hopi Tribe of Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Arizona; Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Parks, as the designee for the Secretary Wyoming; Southern Ute Indian Tribe of Mexico; Kiowa Indian Tribe of of the Interior, transmitted the the Southern Ute Indian Reservation, Oklahoma; Mescalero Apache Tribe of authorization for the disposition of Colorado; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico; culturally unidentifiable human North & South Dakota; Three Affiliated Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & remains according to the Process and Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, Utah; Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the NAGPRA, pending publication of a North Dakota; Ute Indian Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Notice of Inventory Completion in the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Utah; Ute Montana; Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Federal Register. This notice fulfills Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain Ridge Reservation, South Dakota; Ohkay that requirement. Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & Owingeh, New Mexico (formerly the Representatives of any other Indian Utah; Wichita and Affiliated Tribes Pueblo of San Juan); Paiute Indian Tribe tribe that believes itself to be culturally (Wichita, Keechi, Waco & ), of Utah (Cedar City Band of Paiute, affiliated with the human remains Oklahoma; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of Kanosh Band of Paiutes, Koosharem should contact Sheila Goff, NAGPRA ; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Band of Paiutes, Indian Peaks Band of Liaison, Colorado Historical Society, Reservation, New Mexico that this Paiutes, and Shivwits Band of Paiutes); 1300 Broadway, Denver, CO 80203, notice has been published. Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; Pueblo of telephone (303) 866–4531, before June Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, 8, 2009. Disposition of the human Dated: April 13, 2009. Sherry Hutt, New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New remains to the Southern Ute Indian Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; Manager, National NAGPRA Program. Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo Colorado, and the Ute Mountain Tribe [FR Doc. E9–10534 Filed 5–6–09; 8:45 am] of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of of the Ute Mountain Reservation, BILLING CODE 4312–50–S Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Colorado, New Mexico & Utah may Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of proceed after that date if no additional Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR claimants come forward. Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa The Colorado Historical Society is Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, responsible for notifying the Apache National Park Service New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Tribe of Oklahoma; Arapahoe Tribe of Mexico; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the the Wind River Reservation of Notice of Inventory Completion: Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Wyoming; Cheyenne and Arapaho Colorado Historical Society, Denver, Tribes, Oklahoma; Cheyenne River CO Dakota; Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Fort Hall Reservation of Idaho; AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Reservation, South Dakota; Comanche Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Nation, Oklahoma; Crow Creek Sioux ACTION: Notice. Reservation, Wyoming; Southern Ute Tribe of the Crow Creek Reservation, Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute Indian South Dakota; Crow Tribe of Montana; Notice is here given in accordance Reservation, Colorado; Standing Rock Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; with the Native American Graves Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Jicarilla Apache Protection and Repatriation Act Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Nation, New Mexico; Kiowa Indian (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; Ute Tribe of Oklahoma; Mescalero Apache completion of an inventory of human Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New remains and associated funerary objects Reservation, Utah; Ute Mountain Tribe Mexico; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New in the control of the Colorado Historical of the Ute Mountain Reservation, Mexico & Utah; Northern Cheyenne Society, Denver, CO. The human Colorado, New Mexico & Utah; and Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian remains and associated funerary objects Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Reservation, Montana; Oglala Sioux were removed from Alamosa, Costilla, Mexico. Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, La Plata, and Saguache Counties, CO. In April 1997, human remains South Dakota; Ohkay Owingeh, New This notice is published as part of the representing a minimum of one Mexico; Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah; National Park Service’s administrative individual were removed from private Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; Pueblo of responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 land in Costilla County, CO (Office of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations Archaeology and Historic Preservation New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New in this notice are the sole responsibility (OAHP) Case Number 132; 5CT.271). Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; of the museum, institution, or Federal The human remains were inadvertently Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo agency that has control of the Native discovered on the surface of the land by of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo of American human remains and a private citizen looking for antler sheds Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of associated funerary objects. The on the Blanca Trinchera Ranch. The Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San National Park Service is not responsible human remains were transferred to Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San for the determinations in this notice. Colorado College by Costilla County

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authorities. In August 2002, the human be 2–3 years old. Based on the Historical Society, in partnership with remains were transferred to the associated funerary object, the estimated the Colorado Commission of Indian Colorado Historical Society. No known antiquity is 500 B.C. to A.D. 900. Affairs, Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the individual was identified. No associated In 1987, human remains representing Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, funerary objects are present. a minimum of two individuals were and Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute The human remains represent a removed from county land in Alamosa Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Native American female estimated to be County, CO (OAHP Case Number 250; Mexico & Utah conducted tribal 35–50 years old. The antiquity of the 5AL.396). The human remains were consultations among the tribes with human remains is unknown. inadvertently exposed during road ancestral ties to the State of Colorado to In June or July 2000, human remains maintenance activities on an Alamosa develop the process for disposition of representing a minimum of two County road. The Rio Grande National culturally unidentifiable Native individuals were removed from Forest Archaeologist conducted a burial American human remains and municipal land in Saguache County, CO investigation and placed the human associated funerary objects originating (OAHP Case Number 182; 5SH.1858). A remains in the custody of the Anasazi from inadvertent discoveries on teenage boy observed the human Heritage Center. In 2007, the Bureau of Colorado State and private lands. As a remains eroding from a road cut, and Land Management transferred the result of the consultation, a process was delivered them to the Saguache County human remains to the Colorado developed, Process for Consultation, Sheriff’s Office. In July 2002, the human Historical Society, since they had not Transfer, and Reburial of Culturally remains were transferred to the originated from Federal land. No known Unidentifiable Native American Human Colorado Historical Society. No known individuals were identified. The 30 Remains and Associated Funerary individuals were identified. No associated funerary objects are 29 Objects Originating From Inadvertent associated funerary objects are present. juniper beads and 1 partial canid Discoveries on Colorado State and The human remains represent one skeleton. Private Lands, (2008), (unpublished, on Native American adult (estimated to be The human remains represent a file with the Colorado Office of 50 years old) and one Native American Native American female, estimated to be Archaeology and Historic Preservation). subadult (estimated to be between the 50 years old and one Native American The Native American human remains ages of 7 and 11). The antiquity of the individual, sex and age unknown. The and associated funerary objects human remains is unknown. estimated antiquity is unknown. described above originated from In April 2005, human remains Insufficient geographical, kinship, inadvertent discoveries on Colorado representing a minimum of one biological, archeological, linguistic, State and private lands in Alamosa, individual were removed from private folkore, oral tradition, historical Costilla, La Plata, and Saguache land in Saguache County, CO (OAHP evidence or other information or expert Counties, CO, and are located in the Case Number 226; 5SH.2410). The opinion exists to reasonably establish Southwest Consultation Region, human remains were inadvertently cultural affiliation of the above established by the Process. discovered by a contractor excavating a individuals with any present-day Indian trench for an electrical line in the Baca tribe, although physical anthropological The Native American Graves Grande subdivision. A burial evidence supports Native American Protection and Repatriation Review investigation was conducted by OAHP identity. Committee (Review Committee) is staff, who recovered more skeletal Officials of the Colorado Historical responsible for recommending specific elements. In April 2005, the human Society have determined that, pursuant actions for disposition of culturally remains were transferred to the to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the human unidentifiable human remains. On Colorado Historical Society. No known remains described above represent the November 3–4, 2006, the Process was individual was identified. The four physical remains of seven individuals of presented to the Review Committee for associated funerary objects are two Native American ancestry. Officials of consideration. A January 8, 2007, letter manos, one metate, and one bone awl the Colorado Historical Society also on behalf of the Review Committee from tip. have determined that, pursuant to 25 the Designated Federal Officer The human remains represent an U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the 35 objects transmitted the provisional elderly Native American male. The described above are reasonably believed authorization to proceed with the antiquity of the human remains is to have been placed with or near Process upon receipt of formal unknown. individual human remains at the time of responses from the Jicarilla Apache In April 2005, human remains death or later as part of the death rite Nation, New Mexico and Kiowa Indian representing a minimum of one or ceremony. Lastly, officials of the Tribe of Oklahoma, subject to individual were removed from Colorado Historical Society have forthcoming conditions imposed by the municipal land in La Plata County, CO determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. Secretary of the Interior. On May 15–16, (OAHP Case Number 227; 5LP.7801). 3001 (2), a relationship of shared group 2008, the responses from the Jicarilla Employees of the Durango and Silverton identity cannot be reasonably traced Apache Nation, New Mexico and Kiowa Narrow Gauge Railroad inadvertently between the Native American human Indian Tribe of Oklahoma were discovered the human remains eroding remains and associated funerary objects submitted to the Review Committee. On from an embankment along railroad and any present-day Indian tribe. September 23, 2008, the Assistant tracks. OAHP staff assessed the site, and Colorado Historical Society has Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Fort Lewis College staff conducted determined that these human remains Parks, as the designee for the Secretary additional excavation. In July 2006, the are ‘‘culturally unidentifiable’’ under of the Interior, transmitted the human remains were transferred to the NAGPRA, 43 CFR 10.9 (e)(6). Federal authorization for the disposition of Colorado Historical Society. No known regulations currently preclude culturally unidentifiable human individual was identified. The one disposition of culturally unidentifiable remains according to the Process and associated funerary object is an Olivella human remains absent an overriding NAGPRA, pending publication of a shell bead. legal requirement or a recommendation Notice of Inventory Completion in the The human remains represent a from the Secretary of the Interior, 43 Federal Register. This notice fulfills Native American subadult, estimated to CFR 10.9 (e)(6). In 2006, the Colorado that requirement.

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Representatives of any other Indian Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Utah; Ute Montana; Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine tribe that believes itself to be culturally Mountain Ute Tribe of the Ute Mountain Ridge Reservation, South Dakota; Ohkay affiliated with the human remains and/ Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & Owingeh, New Mexico (formerly the or associated funerary objects should Utah; Wichita and Affiliated Tribes Pueblo of San Juan); Paiute Indian Tribe contact Sheila Goff, NAGPRA Liaison, (Wichita, Keechi, Waco & Tawakoni), of Utah (Cedar City Band of Paiute, Colorado Historical Society, 1300 Oklahoma; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of Kanosh Band of Paiutes, Koosharem Broadway, Denver, CO 80203, telephone Texas; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Band of Paiutes, Indian Peaks Band of (303) 866–4531, before June 8, 2009. Reservation, New Mexico that this Paiutes, and Shivwits Band of Paiutes); Disposition of the human remains and notice has been published. Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; Pueblo of associated funerary objects to the Dated: April 13, 2009. Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Sherry Hutt, Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; Manager, National NAGPRA Program. and Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New [FR Doc. E9–10558 Filed 5–6–09; 8:45 am] of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of Mexico & Utah may proceed after that BILLING CODE 4312–50–S Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San date if no additional claimants come Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa forward. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR The Colorado Historical Society is Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa responsible for notifying the Apache National Park Service Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, Tribe of Oklahoma; Arapahoe Tribe of New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New the Wind River Reservation of Notice of Inventory Completion: Mexico; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Wyoming; Cheyenne and Arapaho Colorado Historical Society, Denver, Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Tribes, Oklahoma; Cheyenne River CO Dakota; Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation of Idaho; Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Reservation, South Dakota; Comanche Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River ACTION: Notice. Reservation, Wyoming; Southern Ute Nation, Oklahoma; Crow Creek Sioux Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Crow Creek Reservation, Notice is here given in accordance Reservation, Colorado; Standing Rock South Dakota; Crow Tribe of Montana; with the Native American Graves Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota; Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Protection and Repatriation Act Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Jicarilla Apache (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; Ute Nation, New Mexico; Kiowa Indian completion of an inventory of human Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Tribe of Oklahoma; Mescalero Apache remains and associated funerary objects Reservation, Utah; Ute Mountain Tribe Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New in the control of the Colorado Historical of the Ute Mountain Reservation, Mexico; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Society, Denver, CO. The human Colorado, New Mexico & Utah; and Mexico & Utah; Northern Cheyenne remains and associated funerary objects Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian were removed from Chaffee, Eagle, Mexico. Reservation, Montana; Oglala Sioux Garfield, Montrose, and Ouray Counties, In October 1992, human remains Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, CO. representing a minimum of one South Dakota; Ohkay Owingeh, New This notice is published as part of the individual were removed from private Mexico; Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah; National Park Service’s administrative land in Ouray County, CO (Office of Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; Pueblo of responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Archaeology and Historic Preservation Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations (OAHP) Case Number 71; 5QR.1006). New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New in this notice are the sole responsibility The human remains were inadvertently Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; of the museum, institution, or Federal discovered by hikers who observed Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo agency that has control of the Native them eroding from a dry creek bank at of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo of American human remains and the edge of Log Hill Mesa, west of Dallas Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of associated funerary objects. The Creek. A burial investigation was Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San National Park Service is not responsible conducted by staff from Western State Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San for the determinations in this notice. College, Gunnison, CO. The human Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of In 2006 and 2009, a detailed remains were transferred to the Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa assessment of the human remains and Colorado Historical Society in July Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa associated funerary objects was made by 1994. No known individual was Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santo Colorado Historical Society professional identified. The one associated funerary Domingo, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, staff in consultation with object is a late prehistoric arrow point New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New representatives of the Arapahoe Tribe of fragment. Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; The human remains represent a Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Native American male estimated to be Indian Reservation, South Dakota; San Oklahoma (formerly Cheyenne and 50+ years of age. A charcoal sample in Juan Southern Paiute Tribe of Arizona; Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma); association with the individual yielded Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Comanche Nation, Oklahoma; Crow a radiocarbon date of 1390 +/- 50 years Hall Reservation of Idaho; Shoshone Tribe of Montana; Hopi Tribe of B.P. Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Arizona; Jicarilla Apache Nation, New In November 1993, human remains Wyoming; Southern Ute Indian Tribe of Mexico; Kiowa Indian Tribe of representing a minimum of one the Southern Ute Indian Reservation, Oklahoma; Mescalero Apache Tribe of individual were removed from private Colorado; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico; land in Montrose County, CO (OAHP North & South Dakota; Three Affiliated Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Case Number 100; 5MN.4494). The Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, Utah; Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the human remains were inadvertently North Dakota; Ute Indian Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, discovered by a private citizen who

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