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connecting the two substations, an comments resulted in the addition of History and Description of the Cultural electrical interconnection facility/ clarifying text, but did not significantly Items switchyard owned and operated by change the proposed alternatives. The cultural items are eight wampum Western, an operations and belts. Seven of the wampum belts are on maintenance building, and temporary Vanessa Hice, Assistant Field Manager, Division of Lands. loan to the Seneca National Museum in and long-term laydown areas. Three Salamanca, NY, and one wampum belt meteorological towers would remain on Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1506.10. is housed at the State the site to measure the wind speed and [FR Doc. 2012–30537 Filed 12–14–12; 4:15 pm] Museum in Albany, NY. direction across the site over the life of BILLING CODE 4310–HC–P The Five Nations Alliance Belt, also the project. known as the Mary Jamison Belt, is The applicant (SWE) has requested to composed of seven rows of dark purple interconnect its proposed project to the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR beads with three open white diamonds. electrical transmission grid via The belt measures 161⁄4 inches long and Western’s Davis-Mead 230-kilovolt National Park Service two inches wide. It is a portion of an transmission line. Western, a Federal original belt that measured two feet long agency, is participating in the EIS [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–11793; 2200–1100– and contained five diamonds process as a cooperating agency and 665] representing the Five Nations. may use the EIS to support its decision The New York State Museum acquired to approve or deny the SWE Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural interconnection request. the wampum belt in 1899 from Harriet Items: New York State Museum, Maxwell Converse (E–37424). Museum Three alternatives are analyzed in the Albany, NY Final EIS—a 96 wind turbine layout, an records indicate that Mrs. Converse purchased the Five Nations Alliance 87 wind turbine layout, and a no-action AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. alternative. The 87 wind turbine Belt from descendants of Mary Jemison alternative is the BLM’s preferred ACTION: Notice. on the in New alternative. In identifying the preferred York. Mary Jemison was adopted by the alternative, the BLM considered all SUMMARY: The New York State Museum, Seneca as a child and chose to live her information that has been received in consultation with the appropriate life as a Seneca. At the time of consistent with its environmental Indian tribe, has determined that the collection, the Five Nations Alliance review and ROW permitting cultural items meet the definition of Belt was described as a ransom belt but responsibilities. The Final EIS describes sacred objects and objects of cultural Mrs. Converse later reported it as a and analyzes the project’s site-specific patrimony and repatriation to the Indian council belt. Consultation with the impacts on air quality, biological tribe stated below may occur if no Tonawanda Band of Seneca identifies resources, cultural resources, additional claimants come forward. the Five Nations Alliance Belt as both environmental justice, geological Representatives of any Indian tribe that a sacred object and an object of cultural resources, health and human safety, believes itself to be culturally affiliated patrimony as it relates to the civil hazardous materials, lands and realty, with the cultural items may contact the functions of a Council. noise, noxious weeds, paleontological New York State Museum. The Condolence Belt, resources, recreation, socioeconomic also known as the Red Jacket Belt, is DATES: Representatives of any Indian resources, transportation, visual composed of seven rows of purple beads tribe that believes it has a cultural with five areas of loss that originally resources and water resources. On affiliation with the cultural items January 20, 2012, the BLM published may have contained white beads. It should contact the New York State the Notice of Availability for the Draft measures 351⁄2 inches long and 13⁄4 Museum at the address below by EIS for this proposal in the Federal inches wide. The New York State January 17, 2013. Register (77 FR 2999). The BLM Museum acquired the wampum belt in accepted public comments at three ADDRESSES: Lisa Anderson, NAGPRA 1899 from Harriet Maxwell Converse public meetings in Searchlight, Coordinator, New York State Museum, (E–37426). In correspondence from the Laughlin, and Boulder City, Nevada and 3122 Cultural Education Center, Albany, Cornplanter Reservation in by email, mail, and fax during a 90-day NY 12230, telephone (518) 486–2020. Pennsylvania, dated June 26, 1899, Mrs. comment period. Seventy nine comment Converse listed the Cornplanter SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is submissions were received from Condolence Belt with three other belts individuals, organizations, and hereby given in accordance with the that she had recently purchased. At the agencies. Comments primarily pertained Native American Graves Protection and time of collection, Mrs. Converse to the NEPA process, project Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. reported that the wampum belt was alternatives, project description, project 3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural associated with the Seneca chief, Red need, air quality, biological resources items in the possession of the New York Jacket, but later reported it as (desert tortoise, birds, and plants), State Museum that meet the definition condolence wampum that had belonged cultural resources, cumulative impacts, of sacred objects and objects of cultural to the Seneca chief Cornplanter. geology, health and human safety, land patrimony under 25 U.S.C. 3001. Consultation with the Tonawanda Band use, noise, mitigation measures, This notice is published as part of the of Seneca identifies the Cornplanter recreation, transportation, National Park Service’s administrative Condolence Belt as both a sacred object socioeconomics, visual resources, and responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 and an object of cultural patrimony as water. The BLM also received U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in it relates to the condolence of a leader statements in support of, or opposition this notice are the sole responsibility of and installation of a successor. to, the proposal. the museum, institution, or Federal The Nomination Belt is composed of Comments on the Draft EIS received agency that has control of the Native nine rows of white beads with six from the public and internal BLM American cultural items. The National purple figures joined by extended arms review were considered and addressed Park Service is not responsible for the and a purple square that may represent as appropriate in the Final EIS. Public determinations in this notice. a council fire between the two central

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figures. It measures 24 inches long and sacred object and an object of cultural Blacksnake. Consultation with the three inches wide. The New York State patrimony as it relates to the condolence Tonawanda Band of Seneca identifies Museum acquired the wampum belt in of a leader and installation of a the Blacksnake Mourning Belt as both a the late nineteenth century from Harriet successor. sacred object and an object of cultural Maxwell Converse (E–37427). Museum The Gyantwaka Treaty Belt is a patrimony as it relates to the condolence records indicate that Mrs. Converse fragment of a belt composed of ten rows of a leader and installation of a 1 obtained the belt in either 1882 or 1885 of purple beads and measures 7 ⁄4 successor. from Martha Hemlock, a Seneca elder inches long and 23⁄4 inches wide. The on the Cattaraugus Reservation in New New York State Museum acquired the Determinations Made by the New York York. At the time of collection, the wampum belt in 1899 from Harriet State Museum wampum belt was recorded as a Maxwell Converse (E–37432). Museum women’s nominating belt used to records indicate that Mrs. Converse Officials of the New York State announce the naming of a new chief. obtained the wampum belt on the Museum have determined that: Consultation with the Tonawanda Band Cornplanter Reservation in • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(C), of Seneca identifies the belt as both a Pennsylvania. The belt is said to be a the eight cultural items described above sacred object and an object of cultural portion of the original which was are specific ceremonial objects needed patrimony as it relates to the civil divided among Cornplanter’s heirs at by traditional Native American religious functions of a Council. the time of his death. At the time of leaders for the practice of traditional The Huron Alliance Belt is composed collection, it was reported that the Native American religions by their of ten rows of white beads with three Gyantwaka Treaty Belt was a record of present-day adherents. diagonal rows of three open purple the treaty affirming the Cornplanter • squares. It measures 311⁄2 inches long Reservation. A copy of the signed treaty Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(D), and 31⁄2 inches wide. The New York was originally attached to the wampum the eight cultural items described above State Museum acquired the wampum belt. Consultation with the Tonawanda have ongoing historical, traditional, or belt in the late nineteenth century from Band of Seneca identifies the cultural importance central to the Harriet Maxwell Converse (E–37430). Gyantwaka Treaty Belt as both a sacred Native American group or culture itself, Museum records indicate that Mrs. object and an object of cultural rather than property owned by an Converse purchased the wampum belt patrimony. individual. The Ely S. Parker Belt, also known as in 1885 from Chief John Buck on the • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there Grand River Reservation in , the Five Fires Belt, or Death Belt, is is a relationship of shared group Canada. At the time of collection, Mrs. composed of seven rows of purple beads identity that can be reasonably traced Converse reported the belt was with five white open hexagons, exchanged during the wars between the representing the Five Iroquois Nations, between the sacred objects and objects Huron and Seneca Nations. According and three short white stripes at each of cultural patrimony and the to Chief Buck it originally belonged to end. It measures 371⁄2 inches long and Tonawanda Band of Seneca (previously the of New York prior to two inches wide and has traces of red listed as the Tonawanda Band of Seneca the American Revolution. Rev. William pigment on some of the beads. The New Indians of New York). M. Beauchamp questioned the reported York State Museum acquired the Additional Requestors and Disposition age and attribution of the belt writing, wampum belt in 1899 from Harriet ‘‘The belt, if Huron, may be assigned to Maxwell Converse who purchased it Representatives of any other Indian their later days.’’ Consultation with the from the widow of her long-time friend tribe that believes itself to be culturally Tonawanda Band of Seneca identifies General Ely S. Parker (E–37434). At the affiliated with the sacred objects and the Huron Alliance Belt as both a sacred time of collection, Mrs. Converse objects of cultural patrimony should object and an object of cultural reported the Ely S. Parker belt was a war contact Lisa Anderson, NAGPRA patrimony as it relates to the civil belt and a national belt of the Seneca Coordinator, New York State Museum, people. The belt was handed down to functions of a Council. 3122 Cultural Education Center, Albany, The Seneca Condolence Belt is Ely S. Parker with the title NY 12230, telephone (518) 486–2020 composed of seven rows of purple beads Donehogawah or Keeper of the Western with two white diamonds and a Door. Consultation with the Tonawanda before January 17, 2013. Repatriation of horizontal v-shape near one end. It Band of Seneca identifies the Ely S. the sacred objects and objects of cultural measures 40 inches long and 21⁄8 inches Parker Belt as both a sacred object and patrimony to the Tonawanda Band of wide. The New York State Museum an object of cultural patrimony as it Seneca (previously listed as the acquired the wampum belt in 1897 from relates to the civil functions of a Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians of Harriet Maxwell Converse (E–37431). Council. New York) may proceed after that date Museum records indicate that Mrs. The Blacksnake Mourning Belt is if no additional claimants come Converse obtained the Seneca composed of nine rows of purple beads forward. 1 Condolence Belt through ‘‘Salamanca and measures 6 ⁄4 inches long. The New The New York State Museum is Seneca Indians’’ in New York. At the York State Museum acquired the responsible for notifying the Tonawanda time of collection, Mrs. Converse wampum belt in 1933 from Willard A. Band of Seneca (previously listed as the Gibson (E–37962). Museum records reported that the belt was a condolence Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians of belt interpreted to her ‘‘by the late Dan’l indicate that Mr. Gibson purchased the New York) that this notice has been Two-Guns, an aged Seneca who had Blacksnake Mourning Belt with the published. memorized it during his childhood.’’ assistance of his Seneca friend, Louis The wampum belt was reportedly last Plummer, from an elder on the Allegany Dated: November 26, 2012. owned by the Seneca chief Governor Reservation in New York. At the time of Sherry Hutt, Blacksnake of the Allegany Reservation collection, Mr. Plummer reported that Manager, National NAGPRA Program. the wampum belt was a mourning or in New York. Consultation with the [FR Doc. 2012–30455 Filed 12–17–12; 8:45 am] Tonawanda Band of Seneca identifies condolence belt formerly in the the Seneca Condolence Belt as both a possession of the Seneca chief Governor BILLING CODE 4312–50–P

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