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U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in (AC.11526), and 1 medicine bag The Denver Museum of Nature & this notice are the sole responsibility of (AC.11535I). Science is responsible for notifying the the museum, institution, or Federal Museum accession, catalogue, and Mille Lacs Band of the agency that has control of the Native documentary records, as well as Chippewa , Minnesota, that this American cultural items. The National consultation with representatives of the notice has been published. Park Service is not responsible for the Mille Lacs Band of the Minnesota Dated: December 21, 2016. Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota, indicate determinations in this notice. Melanie O’Brien, that the 13 cultural objects are History and Description of the Cultural Manager, National NAGPRA Program. and are from the Mille Lacs Indian Item(s) Reservation, Minnesota. The 13 cultural [FR Doc. 2017–00512 Filed 1–11–17; 8:45 am] In 1964, seven cultural items were items, A943.1, AC.11525, AC.11528, BILLING CODE 4312–52–P removed from Ojibwe communities in AC.11529, AC.11530, AC.11535B, unknown counties, MN. In the 1950s, AC.11535J, AC.11533, AC.11536A, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Karen Petersen and her husband Sydney AC.11536B, AC 11538, AC.11526, and Petersen spent their summers visiting AC.11535I, relate to the Grand Medicine National Park Service Ojibwe communities, buying crafts from Society or , a ritual society. tribal members. These items belonged to [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0022621]; John Mink, a fourth-degree Midewiwin Determinations Made by the Denver [PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] priest at the Mille Lacs Indian Museum of Nature & Science Reservation in central Minnesota. Soon Officials of the Denver Museum of Notice of Inventory Completion: after Mink’s death in 1962 or 1963, Nature & Science have determined that: Metroparks of the Toledo Area, Toledo, museum records affirm the items were • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), OH dug up to be offered for sale. Petersen the 7 cultural items described above are AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. sold the cache to Mary and Francis reasonably believed to have been placed ACTION: Notice. Crane on February 2, 1976, with the with or near individual human remains exception of one scroll (A943.1), which at the time of death or later as part of SUMMARY: The Metroparks of the Toledo was donated to the Denver Museum of the death rite or ceremony and are Area (Metroparks Toledo) has Natural History (now the Denver believed, by a preponderance of the completed an inventory of human Museum of Nature & Science or DMNS) evidence, to have been removed from a remains and associated funerary objects, directly in November 1976. The Cranes specific burial site of a Native American in consultation with the appropriate in turn donated the other six individual. Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian unassociated funerary objects to the • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(C), organizations, and has determined that DMNS in December 1976. The seven the 6 cultural items described above are there is a cultural affiliation between the unassociated funerary objects are 2 specific ceremonial objects needed by human remains and associated funerary scrolls (A943.1 and traditional Native American religious objects and present-day Indian tribes or AC.11525), 2 ceremonial invitation sets leaders for the practice of traditional Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal (AC.11528 and AC.11529), 2 medicine Native American religions by their descendants or representatives of any bags (AC.11535B and AC.11535J), and 1 present-day adherents. Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian vessel containing ceremonial stain • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there organization not identified in this notice (AC.11530). is a relationship of shared group that wish to request transfer of control Between 1950 and 1964, six cultural identity that can be reasonably traced of these human remains and associated items were removed from Ojibwe between the unassociated funerary funerary objects should submit a written communities in unknown counties, MN. objects and the Mille Lacs Band of the request to Metroparks Toledo. If no Karen Petersen purchased four cultural , Minnesota. additional requestors come forward, • items (AC.11533, AC.11536A, Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there transfer of control of the human remains AC.11536B, and AC.11538) from Ole is a relationship of shared group and associated funerary objects to the Sam who had inherited these objects in identity that can be reasonably traced lineal descendants, Indian tribes, or 1960 from the estate of his father, Mike between the sacred objects and the Mille Native Hawaiian organizations stated in Sam, a Midewiwin priest. Petersen sold Lacs Band of the Minnesota Chippewa this notice may proceed. the cultural items to Mary and Francis Tribe, Minnesota. DATES: Lineal descendants or Crane on February 5, 1976, who donated representatives of any Indian tribe or them to THE DMNS in December 1976. Additional Requestors and Disposition Native Hawaiian organization not Petersen purchased one cultural item Lineal descendants or representatives identified in this notice that wish to (ac.11526) from Annie Sam, a rare of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian request transfer of control of these fourth-degree Midewiwin female priest. organization not identified in this notice human remains and associated funerary On February 2, 1976, the Cranes that wish to claim these cultural items purchased the cultural item and should submit a written request with objects should submit a written request donated it to the DMNS in December information in support of the claim to with information in support of the 1976. Petersen purchased one cultural Chip Colwell, Senior Curator of request to Metroparks Toledo at the item (AC.115351) from Maggie Anthropology and NAGPRA Officer, address in this notice by February 13, Skinaway in 1961. On February 19, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2017. 1976, Petersen sold the cultural item to 2001 Colorado Boulevard., Denver, CO ADDRESSES: Joseph Fausnaugh, the Cranes who donated it to the DMNS 80205, telephone (303) 370–6378, email Metroparks of the Toledo Area, 5100 in December 1976. The six sacred [email protected], by February 13, West Central Avenue, Toledo, OH objects are 1 ceremonial post 2017. After that date, if no additional 43615, telephone (419) 407–9700, email (AC.11533), 1 large cowrie shell claimants have come forward, transfer [email protected]. (AC.11536A), 1 collection of 19 shells of control of the unassociated funerary SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is (AC.11536B), 1 ceremonial drumstick objects and/or sacred objects may here given in accordance with the (AC.115381), 1 birch bark scroll proceed. Native American Graves Protection and

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Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. OHC’s laboratory facilities in Columbus, also resettled to the lower Maumee 3003, of the completion of an inventory where they were cleaned, cataloged, Valley. In 1764, Captain Thomas Morris of human remains and associated analyzed, and rejoined with the human met an Ottawa delegation at the foot of funerary objects under the control of remains and associated funerary items the Maumee Rapids, adjacent to Metroparks Toledo, Toledo, OH. The that were excavated in April 2014. All Audubon Island. Between 1783 and human remains and associated funerary human remains and associated funerary 1794, Audubon Island was known as objects were removed from Audubon items recovered from 33LU0805 are Col. McKee’s Island, and was farmed as Island, City of Maumee, Lucas County, currently being temporarily held at the part of Alexander McKee’s Department OH. OHC’s Columbus facility on behalf of of Indian Affairs post at the foot of the This notice is published as part of the the Toledo Metroparks. Maumee Rapids. Several other Euro- National Park Service’s administrative In total, one individual was Canadian traders occupied lands in the responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 identified. No known individuals were area, presumably with the consent of the U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in identified. The 3,049 associated local Ottawa. this notice are the sole responsibility of funerary objects include the following: 1 In 1795, many of the - the museum, institution, or Federal pan; 2 kettles; 2 arm bands; 1 brooch; 1 Valley tribes signed the Treaty of agency that has control of the Native glass mirror; 2 musket balls; 1 strike- Greenville, which produced several American human remains and light; 2 flints; 19 copper coils; 14 tinkler land cession, including a 12-square-mile associated funerary objects. The cones; 1 tubular long bead; 517 tubular reserve surrounding the foot of the National Park Service is not responsible small beads; 2,130 seed beads; 10 pieces Maumee Rapids and Audubon Island. for the determinations in this notice. of possible fabric; 2 pieces of charcoal; Occupation of Audubon Island by the 37 seeds; 3 stones; 4 rock and shell; 2 Consultation Ohio Ottawa appears to have ceased at light fractions; 1 non-human bone that time, at which point some of them On behalf of Metroparks Toledo, a fragment; 11 ceramic sherds; 21 flint moved to Walpole Island, . detailed assessment of the human flakes; 11 buckshot; 1 rose head nail; 7 Between 1807 and 1817, the United remains was made by professional staff brass flakes; 4 clay fragments with States established four small of the , vermillion; 1 lot of an unspecified reservations for the Ottawa along the Columbus, OH, in consultation with number of corroded iron fragments; 1 lower . Audubon Island representatives of the Eastern otolith; 1 cone; 2 finial-like bone lies between two of these reservations. Tribe of , the Miami Tribe of objects; 1 musket ball fragment; 83 In 1831 to 1833, the four reservations Oklahoma, the Ottawa Tribe of beads; 2 unknown material were finally ceded to the Oklahoma, the , and the fragments; 1 fixed blade knife with half in return for lands in present-day . tang; 1 bone tube; 1 pair of scissors; 1 Franklin County, KS. In 1867, the History and Description of the Remains wooden object; 1 disc-shaped button; 15 reservation organization was perforated triangular brass fragments; 1 In April and October 2014, human dissolved and the Ottawa sold their iron ring; 1 brass ring; 1 ferrule; 1 silver individual allotments and moved to remains representing, at minimum, one ring; 6 ferrule fragments; 1 leather bag; individual were removed from Oklahoma. Descendants of the Ottawa 1 sample of a granular substance; 1 that occupied Audubon Island are 33LU0805 in Lucas County, OH. At the sample of vermillion powder; 1 textile request of the landowner (Metroparks members of the Ottawa Tribe of and cordage; 1 fixed blade knife with Oklahoma. Toledo), on April 10, 2014, Ohio History full tang; 7 samples of textile fragments; Connection (OHC) staff recovered 3 pieces of textile, leather, and organic Determinations Made by Metroparks human remains and funerary items that material; 3 samples of textile and leather Toledo were exposed and eroding out of fragments; 1 knife blade with rust Officials of Metroparks Toledo have Audubon/Ewing Island in the Maumee fragments; 1 sample of knife handle determined that: River. Members of the Miami and fragments; 1 rivet; 24 kettle fragments; 4 • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the Shawnee nations were present during unperforated brass triangles; 1 silver human remains described in this notice this excavation. Only the right side of a clipping; 1 sample of cordage fragments; represent the physical remains of one single individual (approximately 40% of 1 sample of cordage; 28 hawk bell individual of Native . the individual), likely a male between fragments; 1 bell clapper; 6 solder • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the ages of 17–20 years, was recovered fragments; 1 shaped sheet of brass; 1 the 3,049 objects described in this at that time, as the remainder of the iron awl with bone handle and coat notice are reasonably believed to have burial was stable. Associated funerary button attached; 1 button; 1 butt cone; been placed with or near individual items were also recovered. All human 1 non-human, possibly modified bone human remains at the time of death or remains and associated funerary objects fragment; 15 brass fragments; 1 sample later as part of the death rite or were temporarily transferred to the of iron fragments; 1 wire; and 12 ceremony. OHC’s laboratory facilities in Columbus samples of water screened residual • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there for cleaning, cataloging and analysis. portion of soil. is a relationship of shared group Non-artifact remains of water screened A nearby 18th century Ottawa grave identity that can be reasonably traced soil (rocks and shell) from burial context demonstrates that this part of the island between the Native American human were retained. Following consultation may have been occupied and used as a remains and associated funerary objects with the Indian tribes listed above, OHC burial area by the Ottawa until around and the . staff returned to the site on October 1 the time of the 1795 Treaty of and 2, 2014, to excavate the remainder Greenville. Audubon Island is located in Additional Requestors and Disposition of the burial. This follow-up excavation the lower Maumee Valley in northern Lineal descendants or representatives was similarly overseen by Ohio. Some Ottawa bands had taken up of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian representatives of the consulted Indian residence in the lower Maumee Valley organization not identified in this notice tribes, and all excavated human remains by A.D. 1740–1750. Following Pontiac’s that wish to request transfer of control and associated funerary items were siege of in the summer of 1763, of these human remains and associated again temporarily transferred to the some of the Ottawa bands from that area funerary objects should submit a written

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request with information in support of DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE To submit Send them to: the request Joseph Fausnaugh, comments: Metroparks of the Toledo Area, 5100 Notice of Lodging of Proposed West Central Avenue, Toledo, OH Consent Decree Under the By email ...... pubcomment-ees.enrd@ usdoj.gov. 43615, telephone (419) 407–9700, email Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability By mail ...... Assistant Attorney General, [email protected], U.S. DOJ—ENRD, P.O. by February 13, 2017. After that date, if Act Box 7611, Washington, DC no additional requestors have come On January 6, 2017, the Department of 20044–7611. forward, transfer of control of the Justice lodged a proposed Consent human remains and associated funerary Decree with the United States District During the public comment period, objects to the Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma Court for the District of Maine in the the Consent Decree may be examined may proceed. lawsuit entitled United States and State and downloaded at this Justice Metroparks Toledo is responsible for of Maine v. Smith Cove Preservation Department Web site: https:// notifying the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Trust, Civil Action No. 1:17–CV–00009– www.justice.gov/enrd/consent-decrees. Oklahoma, the Miami Tribe of JDL We will provide a paper copy of the In this action, the United States, on Oklahoma, the Ottawa Tribe of Consent Decree upon written request behalf of the U.S. Environmental and payment of reproduction costs. Oklahoma, the Shawnee Tribe, and the Protection Agency (‘‘EPA’’), sought Please mail your request and payment Wyandotte Nation that this notice has injunctive relief for remedial cleanup to: Consent Decree Library, U.S. DOJ— been published. and recovery of response costs against ENRD, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC Dated: December 20, 2016. Smith Cove Preservation Trust 20044–7611. Melanie O’Brien, (‘‘Settling Defendant’’), the current Please enclose a check or money order Manager, National NAGPRA Program. owner of the approximately 120-acre for $14.75 (25 cents per page former Callahan Mine property at the reproduction cost) payable to the United [FR Doc. 2017–00509 Filed 1–11–17; 8:45 am] Callahan Mine Superfund Site in BILLING CODE 4312–52–P States Treasury. For a paper copy Brooksville, Maine (‘‘Site’’). The without the exhibits, the cost is $9.00. complaint seeks relief under to Sections 106 and 107 of the Comprehensive Robert E. Maher Jr., Environmental Response, Assistant Section Chief, Environmental DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Compensation, and Liability Act Enforcement Section, Environment and (‘‘CERCLA’’), 42 U.S.C. 9606 and 9607. Natural Resources Division. Foreign Claims Settlement The State of Maine (‘‘Maine’’) has [FR Doc. 2017–00489 Filed 1–11–17; 8:45 am] Commission asserted parallel claims under CERCLA BILLING CODE 4410–15–P and related State provisions and is a co- [F.C.S.C. Meeting and Hearing Notice No. plaintiff to the proposed Consent 1–17] Decree. Under the proposed Consent Decree, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Sunshine Act Meeting Settling Defendant will provide in-kind services (permission for EPA and the Notice of Permits Issued under the The Foreign Claims Settlement Maine Department of Environmental Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978 Commission, pursuant to its regulations Protection to use ‘‘Borrow Material’’ (45 CFR part 503.25) and the located within Settling Defendant’s AGENCY: National Science Foundation Government in the Sunshine Act (5 property for use in implementing ACTION: Notice of permits issued under U.S.C. 552b), hereby gives notice in response actions at the Site), access, and the Antarctic Conservation of 1978, regard to the scheduling of open institutional controls, all of which Public Law 95–541. meetings as follows: would be valuable for the Thursday, January 26, 2017: 10:00 environmental response at the Site, SUMMARY: The National Science a.m.—Issuance of Proposed Decisions in based on an analysis of Settling Foundation (NSF) is required to publish claims against Iraq. Defendant’s ability to pay. In exchange, notice of permits issued under the Settling Defendant will receive a Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. Status: Open. covenant not to sue under Sections 106 This is the required notice. All meetings are held at the Foreign and 107 of CERCLA for remedial Claims Settlement Commission, 600 E cleanup and response costs relating to FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Street NW., Washington, DC. Requests the Site, subject to certain reservations Nature McGinn, ACA Permit Officer, for information, or advance notices of of rights. Office of Polar Programs, Rm. 755, National Science Foundation, 4201 intention to observe an open meeting, The publication of this notice opens Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230. may be directed to: Patricia M. Hall, a period for public comment on the Or by email: [email protected]. Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, Consent Decree. Comments should be 600 E Street NW., Suite 6002, addressed to the Assistant Attorney SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On Washington, DC 20579. Telephone: General, Environment and Natural December 7, 2016 the National Science (202) 616–6975. Resources Division, and should refer to Foundation published a notice in the United States and State of Maine v. Federal Register of a permit application Brian M. Simkin, Smith Cove Preservation Trust, D.J. Ref. received. The permit was issued on Chief Counsel. No. 90–11–3–09953. All comments must January 6, 2017 to: [FR Doc. 2017–00717 Filed 1–10–17; 4:15 pm] be submitted no later than thirty (30) days after the publication date of this 1. David W. Johnston, Permit No. 2017– BILLING CODE 4410–BA–P notice. Comments may be submitted 034 either by email or by mail: 2. Joseph Wilson, Permit No. 2017–033

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