Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 242 / Thursday, December 17, 1998 / Notices 69651 representatives of the Camp Verde remains at the time of death or later as professional staff in consultation with Yavapai-Apache Indian Community, the part of the death rite or ceremony. representatives of the Jamestown Tribe, the Tribe, the Lastly, officials of the USDA Forest S’Klallam Tribe. Tribe, the Navajo Nation, the Service have also determined that, During 1975- November 16, 1990, Pueblo of Zuni, and the Yavapai- pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (e), there is a human remains representing six Prescott Indian Tribe. relationship of shared group identity individuals were recovered from the Between 1965-1975, human remains which can be reasonably traced between Walan Point and Bugge Spit sites at Port representing 21 individuals were these Native American human remains Hadlock Detachment located on Indian recovered from four sites (AZ and associated funerary objects, the Island near Port Hadlock, WA during N:04:0002; AZ N:04:0005; AZ Hopi Tribe, and the Yavapai-Prescott archeological surveys and construction N:04:0012; and AZ N:04:0017) within Indian Tribe. . projects by U.S. Navy personnel. No the Prescott National Forest during This notice has been sent to officials known individuals were identified. The legally authorized excavations of the Camp Verde Yavapai-Apache 42 associated funerary objects include conducted by State University. Indian Community, the Havasupai an antler tine, worked bone, an antler No known individuals were identified. Tribe, the Hopi Tribe, the Hualapai wedge, bone blanket pin, pendant, shell The 23 associated funerary objects Tribe, the Navajo Nation, the Pueblo of bead, dentalium, holed pectin shell, include ceramic fragments; bone and Zuni, and the Yavapai-Prescott Indian olivella shel bead, glass trade beads, and stone tools; burned animal bones; Tribe. Representatives of any other an iron knife blade. ground stone; shell; clay; and a burned Indian tribe that believes itself to be Based on radiocarbon dates and burial corn cob. culturally affiliated with these human location, the two individuals from the Based on material culture, remains should contact Dr. Frank E. Walan Point site have been determined architecture, and site organization, these Wozniak, NAGPRA Coordinator, to be Native American, dated to between four sites have been identified as Southwestern Region, USDA Forest 1550-1260 years before present. The Southern Sinaguan large masonry Service, 517 Gold Ave. SW, burnt condition of the remains of one pueblo, a small pueblo, a pithouse Albuquerque, NM 87102; telephone: individual may indicate cremation prior village, and a burial ground occupied (505) 842-3238, fax: (505) 842-3800, to burial. between 900-1400 A.D. Continuities of before January 19, 1999. Repatriation of Based on the archeological context ethnographic materials, technology, and the human remains to the Hopi Tribe and radiocarbon dates of surrounding architecture indicate affiliation of and the Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe material, the four individuals from the Southern Sinaguan sites in this portion may begin after that date if no Bugge Spit site have been determined to of central Arizona with historic and additional claimants come forward. present-day Puebloan cultures. Oral be Native American, dated to be Dated: December 11, 1998. traditions presented by representatives approximately 300 years old. of the Hopi Tribe support cultural Veletta Canouts, Ethnographic documents detailing affiliation with Southern Sinaguan sites Acting Departmental Consulting territories of various Native American in central Arizona. Archeologist, groups within the vicinity of these two In 1985, human remains representing Deputy Manager, Archeology and sites indicate that Indian Island was one individual were recovered from site Ethnography Program. inhabited by the Chemakum people at NA 18494 during legally authorized [FR Doc. 98–33449 Filed 12–16–98; 8:45 am] the time the first Euroamericans arrived salvage excavations conducted by Dr. BILLING CODE 4310±70±F in the Northwest. Around 1850, a series Thomas R. Cartledge of Kaibab National of battles between the Chemakum and Forest following disturbance of the the S’Klallam and Suquamish tribes burial. No known individual was DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ended in the virtual destruction of the identified. No associated funerary Chemakum. Historic documents objects are present. National Park Service, Interior indicate the surviving Chemakum were Based on material culture, site NA absorbed into the neighboring S’Klallam Notice of Inventory Completion for 18494 has been identified as a Cohonina villages. Native American Human Remains and burial site dating between 700-900 A.D. Based on the above mentioned Associated Funerary Objects from the Continuities of ethnographic materials, information, officials of the United Naval Ordnance Center, Port Hadlock, tecnology, and architecture indicate States Navy have determined that, WA in the Control of the Pacific affiliation of Cohonina sites in north pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(1), the Division, Port Hadlock Detachment, central Arizona with the Hopi Tribe. human remains listed above represent United States Navy, Port Hadlock, WA. Oral traditions presented by the physical remains of six individuals representatives of the Hopi Tribe AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior of Native American ancestry. Officials of support Hopi cultural affiliation with ACTION: Notice the United States Navy have also Cohonina sites in this portion of determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR Arizona. Notice is hereby given in accordance 10.2 (d)(2), the 42 objects listed above Based on the above mentioned with provisions of the Native American are reasonably believed to have been information, officials of the USDA Graves Protection and Repatriation Act placed with or near individual human Forest Service have determined that, (NAGPRA), 43 CFR 10.9, of the remains at the time of death or later as pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(1), the completion of an inventory of human part of the death rite or ceremony. human remains listed above represent remains and associated funerary objects Lastly, officials of the United States the physical remains of 22 individuals from the Naval Ordnance Center, Port Navy have determined that, pursuant to of Native American ancestry. Officials of Hadlock, WA in the control of the 43 CFR 10.2 (e), there is a relationship the USDA Forest Service have also Pacific Division, Port Hadlock of shared group identity which can be determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR Detachment, United States Navy, Port reasonably traced between these Native 10.2 (d)(2), the 23 objects listed above Hadlock, WA. American human remains and are reasonably believed to have been A detailed assessment of the human associated funerary objects and the placed with or near individual human remains was made by U.S. Navy Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe. 69652 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 242 / Thursday, December 17, 1998 / Notices

This notice has been sent to officials 14071), which contains the Jacob of new requirements for state of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe. Wettlering Crimes Against Children and registration programs, including a Representatives of any other Indian tribe Sexually Violent Offender Registration requirement that the perpetrators of that believes itself to be culturally Act (the ‘‘Wetterling Act’’ or ‘‘the Act’’). particularly serious offenses and affiliated with these human remains and These legislative changes require recidivists be subject to lifetime associated funerary objects should conforming changes in the Final registration. The time frame for contact Mr. Tim Johnson, Naval Guidelines for the Jacob Wetterling Act compliance with these new Ordnance Center, Pacific Division, Port and Megan’s Law (Pub. L. 104–145, 110 requirements is specified in section Hadlock Detachment, Port Hadlock, WA Stat. 1345) that were published by the 10(b) of the Pam Lychner Act—three 98339; telephone: (360) 396-5236, before Department of Justice on July 21, 1997, years from the Pam Lychner Act’s January 19, 1999. Repatriation of the in the Federal Register (62 FR 39009). enactment date of October 3, 1996, human remains and associated funerary The Wettlerling Act generally sets out subject to a possible extension of two objects to the Jamestown S’Klallam minimum standards for state sex years for states that are making good Tribe may begin after that date if no offender registration programs. States faith efforts to come into compliance. additional claimants come forward. that fail to comply with these standards Hence, barring an extension, states will Dated: December 11, 1998. within the applicable time frame will be need to comply with these features of subject to a mandatory 10% reduction of Veletta Canouts, the Act by October 2, 1999. formula grant funding under the Edward 3. CJSA requirements. CJSA Acting Departmental Consulting Byrne Memorial State and Local Law amendments made extensive changes to Archeologist, Enforcement Assistance Program (42 the Wetterling Act, many of which Deputy Manager, Archeology and U.S.C. 3756), which is administered by afford states greater flexibility in Ethnography Program. the Bureau of Justice Assistance of the achieving compliance. Under the [FR Doc. 98–33450 Filed 12–16–98; 8:45 am] Department of Justice. Any funds that effective date provisions in section BILLING CODE 4310±70±F are not allocated to noncomplying states 115(c) of the CJSA, states immediately will be reallocated to states that are in have the benefit of amendments that compliance. Information concerning afford them greater discretion and can DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE compliance review procedures and rely on these amendments in requirements appears in part VIII of determining what changes (if any) are Office of the Attorney General these guidelines. needed in their registration programs to [A.G. Order No. 2196±98] The Wetterling Act’s requirements for comply with the Act. For example, the compliance may be divided into three Act as amended by CJSA affords states RIN 1105±AA56 categories, each of which carries a discretion concerning the procedures to different compliance deadline, be used in periodic verification of Final Guidelines for the Jacob depending on the legislation from registrants’ addresses, in contrast to the Wetterling Crimes Against Children which it derives: Act’s original requirement that a and Sexually Violent Offender 1. Original requirements. Many of the specific verification-form procedure be Registration Act, as Amended provisions of the current formulation of used. In light of this change, effective the Wetterling Act derive from the AGENCY: Department of Justice. immediately, states have discretion original version of the Act, which was concerning the particular procedures ACTION: Final guidelines. enacted on September 13, 1994, or from that will be used in address verification. the Megan’s Law amendment to the Act. SUMMARY: The United States Department While the CJSA’s amendments to the of Justice is publishing Final Guidelines These include, for example, the basic Wetterling Act were largely in the to implement the Jacob Wetterling requirements to register offenders for at direction of affording states greater Crimes Against Children and Sexually least 10 years; to take registration discretion, the CJSA did add some new information from offenders and to Violent Offender Registration Act as requirements to the Wetterling Act. For inform them of registration obligations amended by Megan’s Law, the Pam example, the CJSA added provisions to when they are released; to require Lychner Sexual Offender Tracking and promote registration of sex offenders in registrants to update address Identification Act of 1996, and section states where they work or attend school information when they move; to verify 115 of the General Provisions of Title I (as well as states of residence) and to the registered address periodically; and of the Departments of Commerce, promote registration of federal and to release registration information as Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and military sex offenders. The time frame necessary for public safety. The for compliance with new requirements Related Agencies Appropriations Act, deadline for compliance with these under the CJSA amendments, as 1998. features of the Act was September 12, specified in section 115(c)(2) of the EFFECTIVE DATE: December 17, 1998. 1997, based on the specification of 42 CJSA, is three years from the CJSA’s SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Pam U.S.C. 14071(g) that states have three enactment date of November 26, 1997, Lychner Sexual Offender Tracking and years from the Act’s original enactment subject to a possible extension of two Identification Act of 1996, Pub. L. 104– date (i.e., September 13, 1994) to years for states that are making good 236, 110 Stat. 3093 (the ‘‘Pam Lychner achieve compliance. However, 42 U.S.C. faith efforts to come into compliance, Act’’), and section 115 of the General 14071(g) allows a two-year extension of Hence, barring an extension, states will Provisions of Title I of the Departments the deadline for states that are making need to comply with these features of of Commerce, Justice, and State, the good faith efforts to achieve compliance, the Act by November 25, 2000. Judiciary, and Related Agencies and states that have been granted this The final guidelines in this Appropriations Act, 1998, Pub. L. 105– extension have until September 12, publication identify and discuss 119, 111 Stat. 2440, 2461 (the ‘‘CJSA’’), 1999, to comply with these features of separately all of the requirements that amended section 170101 of the Violent the Act. states will need to meet by each of the Crime Control and Law Enforcement 2. Pam Lychner Act requirements. The three specified deadlines, thereby Act of 1994, Pub. L. 103–322, 108 Stat. Pam Lychner Act’s amendments to the making it clear when states will need to 1796, 2038 (codified at 42 U.S.C. Wetterling Act created a limited number be in compliance with each element of