Federal Register/Vol. 85, No. 216/Friday, November 6, 2020/Notices
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71090 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 216 / Friday, November 6, 2020 / Notices ACTION: Notice. (5) the United States Geological Authority: 43 CFR 1784.4–1. Survey; SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is Mark Matthews, (6) the Bureau of Indian Affairs; Acting Albuquerque District Manager. to request a second call for public (7) the United States Fish and [FR Doc. 2020–24757 Filed 11–5–20; 8:45 am] nominations for members to the Bureau Wildlife Service; of Land Management’s (BLM) Rio BILLING CODE 4310–FB–P (8) the Army Corps of Engineers; Puerco Management Committee (Committee). (9) the Environmental Protection Agency; DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DATES: A completed nomination form (10) the Natural Resources and accompanying nomination/ Conservation Service of the Department National Park Service recommendation letters must be of Agriculture; [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0031097; received by December 7, 2020. (11) the State of New Mexico, PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] ADDRESSES: Send nominations to Mark including the New Mexico Environment Matthews, BLM acting Albuquerque Department of the State Engineer; Notice of Inventory Completion: District Manager, 100 Sun Blvd. NE, (12) affected local soil and water Michigan State Police, Lansing, MI Suite 330, Albuquerque, NM 87109, conservation districts; AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Attention: Rio Puerco Management (13) the Elephant Butte Irrigation ACTION: Notice. Committee Nominations. District; FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: (14) private landowners; and SUMMARY: The Michigan State Police Contact Allison Sandoval, Public Affairs (15) other interested citizens. (MSP) has completed an inventory of Specialist, BLM New Mexico State Members will be appointed by the human remains, in consultation with Office, 301 Dinosaur Trail, Santa Fe, Secretary to staggered 3-year terms. the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native NM 87508, phone (505) 954–2019, or Nominating Potential Members: Hawaiian organizations, and has email [email protected]. Persons Nomination forms may be obtained from determined that there is no cultural who use a telecommunications device the Rio Puerco Field Office (address affiliation between the human remains for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal listed above) or https://www.blm.gov/ and any present-day Indian Tribes or Relay Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8229, get-involved/resource-advisory-council/ Native Hawaiian organizations. to contact the above individual during near-you/New-Mexico. All nominations Representatives of any Indian Tribe or normal business hours. The FRS is must include a completed Resource Native Hawaiian organization not available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, Advisory Council application (OMB identified in this notice that wish to to leave a message or question with the Control No. 1004–0204), letters of request transfer of control of these above individual. You will receive a reference from the represented interests human remains should submit a written reply during normal business hours. or organizations, and any other request to the Michigan State Police. If SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Omnibus information that speaks to the no additional requestors come forward, Parks and Public Lands Management candidate’s qualifications. The specific transfer of control of the human remains Act, Section 401, reauthorized through category the nominee would be to the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, representing should be identified in the organizations stated in this notice may Management, and Recreation Act, letter of nomination and on the proceed. Section 1122, directs the Secretary of application form. DATES: Representatives of any Indian the Interior to establish the Committee. Non-Federal members of the Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization The Committee will be regulated by the Committee serve without compensation. not identified in this notice that wish to Federal Advisory Committee Act However, while away from their homes request transfer of control of these (FACA) (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2) and or regular places of business, Committee human remains should submit a written section 309 of the Federal Land Policy and subcommittee members engaged in request with information in support of and Management Act (FLPMA). The Committee or subcommittee business the request to the Michigan State Police BLM rules governing advisory may be allowed travel expenses, at the address in this notice by committees are found at 43 CFR subpart including per diem in lieu of December 7, 2020. 1784. subsistence, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. ADDRESSES: Hanna Friedlander, Human The Committee shall advise the 5703, in the same manner as persons Remains Analyst, Michigan State Police, Secretary, acting through the Director of employed intermittently in Federal Intelligence Operations Division— the BLM, on the development and Government service. The Committee Missing Persons Coordinator Unit, 7150 implementation of the Rio Puerco shall meet approximately two to four Harris Drive, Lansing, MI 48821, Management Program and serve as a times annually, and at such other times telephone (517) 242–5731, email forum for information about activities as determined by the Designated Federal [email protected]. that may affect or further the Officer. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is development and implementation of the Certification Statement: I hereby here given in accordance with the best management practices. The certify that the Rio Puerco Management Native American Graves Protection and Committee shall be convened by a Committee is necessary and is in the Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. representative of the Bureau of Land public interest in connection with the 3003, of the completion of an inventory Management and shall include performance of duties pursuant to the of human remains under the control of representatives from: Department of the Interior’s authority the Michigan State Police, Lansing, MI. (1) The Rio Puerco Watershed under the Omnibus Parks and Public The human remains were removed from Committee; Lands Management Act, the Omnibus Frenchtown Charter Township, Monroe (2) affected tribes and pueblos; Public Land Management Act of 2009, County and Jackson County, MI. (3) the United States Forest Service of and the John D. Dingell, Jr. This notice is published as part of the the Department of Agriculture; Conservation, Management, and National Park Service’s administrative (4) the Bureau of Reclamation; Recreation Act. responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:00 Nov 05, 2020 Jkt 253001 PO 00000 Frm 00044 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\06NON1.SGM 06NON1 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 216 / Friday, November 6, 2020 / Notices 71091 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 43 CFR 10.11(d). descent. This determination was made as indicated by the shells, mollusks, and The determinations in this notice are by John A. Servello, BA, and overseen other aquatic indications left on the the sole responsibility of the museum, by Dr. H. Gill-King, D–ABFA. No known mandible, and a three-group institution, or Federal agency that has individual was identified. No associated discriminant function analysis using control of the Native American human funerary objects are present. macromorphic traits, in addition to remains. The National Park Service is On July 22, 2019, human remains dental characteristics including shovel not responsible for the determinations representing, at minimum, one shaped incisors and extreme tooth wear. in this notice. individual were removed from their • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the resting spot in Jackson County, MI. The human remains described in this notice Consultation remains were transported to Michigan represent the physical remains of two A detailed assessment of the human State University for forensic individuals of Native American remains was made by the Michigan anthropological assessment, which was ancestry. State Police professional staff in completed by MA student Alex Groots • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), consultation with representatives of the and Dr. Joseph Hefner, D–ABFA. On the 22 objects described in this notice Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of October 10, 2019, the human remains are reasonably believed to have been Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan; were returned to the Michigan State placed with or near individual human Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Police, where they are known as remains at the time of death or later as Potawatomi (previously listed as Huron FA020–19. part of the death rite or ceremony. Potawatomi, Inc.); Pokagon Band of The recovered human remains consist • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and of 13 maxillary and 11 mandibular relationship of shared group identity Indiana; and the Saginaw Chippewa fragments, fragmentary cranium and cannot be reasonably traced between the Indian Tribe of Michigan. mandible, seven approximately Native American human remains and unidentifiable cranial fragments, four any present-day Indian Tribe. History and Description of the Remains fragmentary left ribs, four unsided rib • According to final judgments of the On April 22, 2009, human remains fragments, two fragmentary cervical Indian Claims Commission or the Court representing, at minimum, one vertebrae, one fragmentary thoracic of Federal Claims, the land from which individual were removed from vertebra, one left clavicle fragment, one the Native American human remains Frenchtown Charter Township, Monroe unsided scapula fragment, the shaft of were removed is the