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Conservation Grant Program. The conservation in at least 26 States, or in Eligible project proposals are Improvement Act authorizes us to a majority of the States in any one FWS reviewed and ranked by AFWA award grants of up to $3 million Region, or it must benefit a regional Committees and interested annually from funds available under association of State fish and wildlife nongovernmental organizations that each of the Restoration Acts, for a total agencies. We may award grants to a represent conservation organizations, of up to $6 million annually. We may State, a group of States, or one or more sportsmen’s organizations, and award grants from a list of priority nongovernmental organizations. For the industries that support or promote projects recommended to us by AFWA. purpose of carrying out the National fishing, hunting, trapping, recreational The FWS Director, exercising the Survey of Fishing, Hunting and shooting, bowhunting, or archery. authority of the Secretary of the Interior, Wildlife-Associated Recreation, we may AFWA’s Committee on National Grants need not fund all projects on the list, award grants to the FWS, if requested by recommends a final list of priority but all projects funded must be on the AFWA, or to a State or a group of States. projects to the directors of State fish and Also, AFWA requires all project list. wildlife agencies for their approval by Grantees under this program may use proposals to address its National majority vote. By statute, AFWA then funds for sport fisheries and wildlife Conservation Needs, which are must transmit the final approved list to management and research projects, announced annually by AFWA at the the FWS for funding under the boating access development, hunter same time as its request for proposals. Multistate Conservation Grant program safety and education, aquatic education, Further, applicants must provide by October 1. fish and wildlife habitat improvements, certification that no activities conducted and other purposes consistent with the under a Multistate Conservation grant This year, we received a list of 12 enabling legislation. will promote or encourage opposition to recommended projects. We recommend To be eligible for funding, a project regulated hunting or trapping of wildlife them for funding in 2011. AFWA’s must benefit fish and/or wildlife or to regulated angling or taking of fish. recommended list follows:

MSCGP 2011 CYCLE RECOMMENDED PROJECTS

Total 2011 ID Title Submitter WR request SFR request grant request

11–014 ...... Coordination of Farm Bill Program Implementation to AFWA ...... $82,962.00 $82,962.00 $165,924.00 Optimize Fish & Wildlife Benefits to the States. 11–058 ...... State Fish and Wildlife Agency Director Travel Co- AFWA ...... 83,325.00 83,325.00 166,650.00 ordination and Administration. 11–060 ...... Assessing Agency Capacities to Manage Fish and Cornell University 90,042.00 90,042.00 180,085.00 Wildlife Health. 11–063 ...... National Fish Habitat Board Action Plan Implemen- AFWA ...... 0 240,000.00 240,000.00 tation. 11–026 ...... Coordination of the Industry, Federal and State AFWA ...... 90,600.00 90,600.00 181,200.00 Agency Coalition. 11–001 ...... Review and Assessment of Bioenergy Provisions in AFWA ...... 46,200.00 46,200.00 92,400.00 the 2008 Farm Bill. 11–071 ...... Management Assistance Team ...... AFWA ...... 487,923.00 487,923.00 975,846.00 11–015 ...... Economic and other Benefits of State Public Access AFWA ...... 85,525.00 85,525.00 171,050.00 Programs and Implementation of the Voluntary Public Access and Habitat Incentive Program. 11–069 ...... Operation of the Reservoir Fisheries Habitat Part- Arkansas Game 0 296,000.00 296,000.00 nership. & Fish. 11–023 ...... Trailblazer Adventure Program: Involving Youth and U.S. Sportsman 160,000.00 0 160,000.00 Families in Conservation. Alliance Founda- tion. 11–009 ...... Expanding Western Farm Bill Conservation Program Pheasants For- 180,000.00 20,000.00 200,000.00 Delivery through Biologist Partnerships. ever & Quail Forever. 11–025 ...... Conservation Leaders for Tomorrow Professional WMI ...... 261,000.00 0 261,000.00 Development Project.

Total ...... 1,522,577.00 1,567,577.00 3,090,154.00

Dated: October 28, 2010. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Notice is here given in accordance Rowan W. Gould, with the Native American Graves Acting Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife National Park Service Protection and Repatriation Act Service. [2253–65] (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent [FR Doc. 2011–53 Filed 1–5–11; 8:45 am] to repatriate cultural items in the BILLING CODE 4310–55–P Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural possession of the U.S. Department of the Items: U.S. Department of the Interior, Interior, National Park Service, Natchez National Park Service, Natchez Trace Trace Parkway, Tupelo, MS, that meet Parkway, Tupelo, MS the definition of unassociated funerary objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001. AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. This notice is published as part of the ACTION: Notice. National Park Service’s administrative

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responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 reasonably traced between the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in unassociated funerary objects and the this notice are the sole responsibility of Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas; National Park Service the Superintendent, Natchez Trace Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town, [2253–65] Parkway, Tupelo, MS. Oklahoma; Chitimacha Tribe of In 1951, unassociated funerary objects Louisiana; Choctaw Nation of Notice of Inventory Completion for were removed from the Mangum site, Oklahoma; Jena Band of Choctaw Native American Human Remains and Claiborne County, MS, during Indians, Louisiana; Mississippi Band of Associated Funerary Objects in the authorized National Park Service survey Choctaw Indians, Mississippi; and Possession of the U.S. Department of and excavation projects. The Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of Louisiana. the Interior, National Park Service, whereabouts of the human remains is Natchez Trace Parkway, Tupelo, MS; unknown. The 34 unassociated funerary Representatives of any other Indian Correction objects are 6 ceramic vessel fragments, tribe that believes itself to be culturally 1 ceramic jar, 4 projectile points, 6 shell affiliated with the unassociated funerary AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ornaments, 2 shells, 1 stone tool, 1 stone objects should contact Cameron H. ACTION: Notice; correction. artifact, 1 polished stone, 2 pieces of Sholly, Superintendent, Natchez Trace petrified wood, 2 bone artifacts, 1 Parkway, 2680 Natchez Trace Parkway, Notice is here given in accordance worked antler, 2 discoidals, 3 cupreous Tupelo, MS 38803, telephone (662) 680– with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act metal fragments and 2 soil/shell 4005, before February 7, 2011. (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the samples. The Mangum site is a large Repatriation of the unassociated completion of an inventory of human hilltop cemetery located in Claiborne funerary objects to the Alabama- County, MS. Objects recovered from the remains and associated funerary objects Coushatta Tribes of Texas; Alabama- in the possession of the U.S. Department burials indicate that the site was in use Quassarte Tribal Town, Oklahoma; during the Mississippian period (A.D. of the Interior, National Park Service, Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana; Choctaw 1000–1650). In 1540, the De Soto Natchez Trace Parkway, Tupelo, MS. Nation of Oklahoma; Jena Band of expedition likely encountered the The human remains and cultural items Taensa people in the vicinity of the Choctaw Indians, Louisiana; Mississippi were removed from Claiborne County, Mangum site. In 1682, the de La Salle Band of Choctaw Indians, Mississippi; MS. expedition documented the Taensa and and Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of This notice is published as part of the Tunica in the same area. In 1706, the Louisiana, may proceed after that date if National Park Service’s administrative Taensa were driven from the area, no additional claimants come forward. responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 migrating first to Bayogula, and then to Natchez Trace Parkway is responsible U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in Mobile, where they may have settled for notifying the Absentee-Shawnee this notice are the sole responsibility of with the Choctaw. In 1764, the Taensa Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Alabama- the Superintendent, Natchez Trace again moved, first to the Red River in Coushatta Tribes of Texas; Alabama- Parkway, Tupelo, MS. This notice corrects the total number south Louisiana, and finally to the Quassarte Tribal Town, Oklahoma; Bayou Boeuf area where they lived with and types of associated funerary objects Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma; Chickasaw for a Notice of Inventory Completion the Chitimacha. Representatives of the Nation, Oklahoma; Chitimacha Tribe of Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana have published in the Federal Register (67 Louisiana; Choctaw Nation of identified similarities between the FR 910–911, January 8, 2002). Since Oklahoma; Eastern Band of Cherokee burial practices observed at the Mangum publication an additional 148 associated site and those of the Chitimacha. Indians of North Carolina; Eastern funerary objects have been discovered. Historical documentation also indicates Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Jena Band Therefore, in the Federal Register, page that the Tunica buried individuals in of Choctaw Indians, Louisiana; Kialegee 910, paragraph number 4 is corrected by hilltop cemeteries in open country, Tribal Town, Oklahoma; Miccosukee substituting the following paragraph: matching the burial practice observed Tribe of Indians of Florida; Mississippi In 1951 and 1963, human remains on the Mangum site. Historical Band of Choctaw Indians, Mississippi; representing 124 individuals were documentation indicates that some Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Oklahoma; recovered from the Mangum site during Taensa may have married into the Poarch Band of Creek Indians of authorized National Park Service survey Alabama tribe, the descendants of Alabama; Seminole Nation of and excavation projects. No known whom now constitute the Alabama- Oklahoma; Seminole Tribe of Florida individuals were identified. There are Coushatta Tribes of Texas and the (Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton, no funerary objects associated with the Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town, Hollywood & Tampa Reservations); one individual recovered in 1951. The Oklahoma. Shawnee Tribe, Oklahoma; 123 individuals recovered in 1963 are Officials of Natchez Trace Parkway Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, Oklahoma; associated with 182 funerary objects: 86 have determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of Louisiana; ceramic vessel fragments, 1 ceramic jar, 3001(3)(B), that the 34 cultural items and United Keetoowah Band of 1 tobacco pipe, 1 frog effigy, 9 projectile described above are reasonably believed Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma, that this points, 4 shell ornaments, 2 shells, 37 to have been placed with or near shell beads, 1 shell pendant, 1 shell notice has been published. individual human remains at the time of dipper, 4 stone tools, 2 stone artifacts, death or later as part of the death rite Dated: December 28, 2010. 6 flakes, 2 pieces of shatter, 2 chisels, or ceremony and are believed, by a Sangita Chari, 3 polished stones, 8 celts, 2 faunal preponderance of the evidence, to have Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program. bones, 9 cupreous metal fragments and been removed from a specific burial site [FR Doc. 2011–4 Filed 1–5–11; 8:45 am] 1 cupreous metal plate. of a Native American individual. In the Federal Register, page 910, Officials of Natchez Trace Parkway also BILLING CODE 4312–50–P paragraph number 6 is corrected by have determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. substituting the following paragraph: 3001(2), that there is a relationship of Officials of the Natchez Trace shared group identity that can be Parkway have determined, pursuant to

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