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and ecological processes and functions completion of an inventory of human marriage between the Burley Lagoon, in the Tomales Bay Watershed.’’ remains in the possession of the Pierce Purdy Washington Shotlemamish and All written comments received and a College District, Lakewood, WA. The Nisqually Indian Tribe of the Nisqually summary of commentary from the human remains were removed from site Reservation, Washington. Descendants January 25, 2007, public meeting are 45–PI–07, also known as the Purdy 1 of the Shotlemamish are members of the available for inspection at the Seashore site, at Carr Inlet, Pierce County, WA. Puyallup Tribe of the Puyallup Administration Building, 1 Bear Valley This notice is published as part of the Reservation, Washington. Road, Point Reyes Station, CA. National Park Service’s administrative Officials of the Pierce College District Substantive comments and responses responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 have determined that, pursuant to 25 are documented in the FEIS/EIR. Copies U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the human remains of the FEIS/EIR may be obtained from in this notice are the sole responsibility described above represent the physical the Superintendent, Point Reyes of the museum, institution, or Federal remains of 29 individuals of Native National Seashore, Point Reyes, CA agency that has control of the Native American ancestry. Officials of the 94956, Attn: Giacomini Wetlands American human remains. The National Pierce College District also have Restoration Project, or by e-mail request Park Service is not responsible for the determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. to: [email protected] (in the determinations in this notice. 3001 (2), there is a relationship of subject line, type: Giacomini Wetlands This notice corrects the number of shared group identity that can be Restoration Project). The document will tribes that were determined to be reasonably traced between the Native be sent directly to those who have culturally affiliated in a Notice of American human remains and the requested it, and also will be posted on Inventory Completion previously Nisqually Indian Tribe of the Nisqually the Internet at the Seashore’s Web site published in the Federal Register of Reservation, Washington and Puyallup http://www.nps.gov/pore; and both the November 22, 2006 (FR Doc E6–19790, Tribe of the Puyallup Reservation, printed document and digital version on pages 67634–67635) by adding the Washington. Lastly, officials of the compact disk will be available at the Nisqually Indian Tribe of the Nisqually Pierce College District have determined park headquarters and local libraries. Reservation, Washington. that there is a preponderance of the Decision: As a delegated EIS/EIR, the After publication in the Federal evidence in favor of the Puyallup Tribe official responsible for the final decision Register of the Notice of Inventory of the Puyallup Reservation, is the Regional Director, Pacific West Completion, Pierce College District Washington’s claim. Region. A Record of Decision, fully determined that the Nisqually Indian Representatives of any other Indian documenting the entire conservation Tribe of the Nisqually Reservation, tribe that believes itself to be culturally planning and environmental decision- Washington were also culturally affiliated with the human remains making process, will be prepared not affiliated with the Native American should contact Chris MacKersie, District sooner than 30 days following human remains from site 45–PI–07, also Director of Safety & Security and publication in the Federal Register of known as the Purdy 1 site, at Carr Inlet, Assistant Director of Facilities, Pierce the EPA’s notice of filing and Pierce County, WA. College District, 9401 Farwest Drive SW, In the Federal Register of November availability of the Final EIS/EIR. Lakewood, WA 98498, telephone (253) 22, 2006, on page 67634, paragraph Subsequently and prior to 912–3655, before August 1, 2007. number 5, is corrected by substituting implementation, notice of approval of Repatriation of the human remains to the following: the Record of Decision will likewise be Site 45–PI–07 is a shell mound the Puyallup Tribe of the Puyallup published in the Federal Register, as measuring 5 feet high, 30 feet wide, and Reservation, Washington may proceed well as announced via local and 120 feet long. Osteological and after that date if no additional claimants regional news media. Following archeological analysis indicate that the come forward. Pierce College District is responsible approval of the Giacomini Wetlands human remains removed from site 45– for notifying the Nisqually Indian Tribe Restoration Project, the official PI–07 are of Native American ancestry, responsible for project implementation based on the presence of extreme of the Nisqually Reservation, will be the Superintendent, Point Reyes degrees of dental wear, marked Washington and Puyallup Tribe of the National Seashore. shoveling of the exposed permanent Puyallup Reservation, Washington that Dated: April 25, 2007. incisors, blunt nasal sills, rounded this notice has been published. George J. Turnbull, chins, squatting facets on the talus, and Dated: June 13, 2007 Acting Regional Director, Pacific West Region. their flex-kneed burial position, and site Sherry Hutt, [FR Doc. E7–12714 Filed 6–29–07; 8:45 am] context. Archeological materials Manager, National NAGPRA Program. BILLING CODE 4312–FW–P recovered from the site indicate a wide [FR Doc. E7–12712 Filed 6–29–07; 8:45 am] range of use during the prehistoric and BILLING CODE 4312–50–S historic periods. Site 45–PI–07 is DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR located within the area long occupied by the Shotlemamish, a Southern DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service Lushootseed speaking group. Members of the Puyallup Tribe of the Puyallup National Park Service Notice of Inventory Completion: Pierce Reservation, Washington speak the College District, Lakewood, WA; Southern Lushootseed language. Notice of Inventory Completion: Correction Around 1870s, remaining University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Shotlemamish, in what is now the ACTION: Notice; correction. Purdy I area, moved to the Puyallup AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Reservation where there were already ACTION: Notice. Notice is here given in accordance Shotlemamish living on the reservation. with the Native American Graves Officials of Pierce College have Notice is here given in accordance Protection and Repatriation Act reasonably determined that there is also with the Native American Graves (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003 (5), of the a shared group identity through Protection and Repatriation Act

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(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the places their manufacture at pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is completion of an inventory of human approximately A.D. 1800. Navajo a relationship of shared group identity remains in the possession of the diyugi–style blankets were commonly that can be reasonably traced between University of Colorado Museum, traded to northern allies in Colorado, the Native American human remains Boulder, CO. The human remains were such as the Ute, in the late 18th century. and associated funerary objects and the removed from Montezuma County, CO. In the last 250 years, the presence of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the This notice is published as part of the Ute tribes in the area of western Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado; Ute National Park Service’s administrative Colorado has been historically Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 documented by both Spanish and U.S. Reservation, Utah; and Ute Mountain U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations records. The present northern boundary Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, in this notice are the sole responsibility of the Ute Mountain Reservation is only Colorado, New Mexico & Utah. of the museum, institution, or Federal 12 miles to the south of the burial site. Representatives of any other Indian agency that has control of the Native In consultations, representatives of the tribe that believes itself to be culturally American human remains. The National Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the affiliated with the human remains and Park Service is not responsible for the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado and associated funerary objects should determinations in this notice. Ute Mountain Ute Tribe of the Ute contact Steve Lekson, Curator of A detailed assessment of the human Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Anthropology, University of Colorado remains was made by University of Mexico & Utah provided evidence in the Museum, Henderson Building, Campus Colorado Museum professional staff in form of histories and oral traditions that Box 218, Boulder, CO 80309–0218, consultation with representatives of the place their tribes in a very large area telephone (303) 492–6671, before Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the that encompasses the location of the August 1, 2007. Repatriation of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado; Ute burial. Representatives from both Indian human remains and associated funerary Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray tribes identified details about the burial objects to the Southern Ute Indian Tribe Reservation, Utah; and Ute Mountain as possibly Ute. of the Southern Ute Reservation, Ute Tribe of the Ute Mountain At the estimated time of the burial, Colorado; Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & historical accounts located the Ute & Ouray Reservation, Utah; and Ute Utah. bands whose descendants are now In 1954, human remains representing Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain members of the Southern Ute Indian Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & a minimum of one individual were Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, Utah may proceed after that date if no excavated by Hod Stevenson on his Colorado and Ute Mountain Ute Tribe of additional claimants come forward. property at the edge of Yellow Jacket the Ute Mountain Reservation, Canyon, Montezuma County, CO. In Colorado, New Mexico & Utah in an University of Colorado Museum is 1959, Mr. Stevenson donated the human area stretching from southwestern to responsible for notifying the Southern remains and associated funerary objects south central Colorado to northwestern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute to the museum. No known individual New Mexico. Historical accounts placed Reservation, Colorado; Ute Indian Tribe was identified. The seven associated the other Ute bands whose descendants of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, funerary objects are two plain–weave, are members of the Ute Indian Tribe of Utah; and Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute diyugi–style Navajo blankets; one coil of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Utah in Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New braided rawhide; one small piece of an area between the Gunnison River in Mexico & Utah that this notice has been twined hair; one basket in the shape of Colorado and the Uintah Basin in Utah published. a dipper; one lot of juniper bark; and in A.D. 1800. Officials of the University Dated: June 11, 2007 one lot of charcoal. A piece of rolled of Colorado Museum reasonably believe Sherry Hutt, leather was not collected when the the human remains are Ute based on the Manager, National NAGPRA Program. burial was excavated. preponderance of the evidence [FR Doc. E7–12711 Filed 6–29–07; 8:45 am] The human remains were found in a including geographical, archeological, BILLING CODE 4312–50–S flexed, seated position facing east and historical, oral–tradition, and expert wrapped in two plain–weave, diyugi– opinion. Descendants of the Ute are style Navajo blankets in an east–facing members of the Southern Ute DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR rock shelter, and appear to have been Reservation, Colorado; Ute Indian Tribe placed in a shallow pit. The burial had of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, National Park Service been covered with juniper bark and the Utah; and Ute Mountain Ute Tribe of the pit had been filled with sandy sediment. Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, Notice of Inventory Completion: In 1959, University of Colorado New Mexico & Utah University of Colorado Museum, Museum curator, Joe Ben Wheat, visited Officials of the University of Colorado Boulder, CO; Correction the site and found a small charcoal Museum have determined that, pictograph of a long–legged horse and pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. rider at the back of the rock shelter from human remains described above ACTION: Notice; correction. which the burial had been removed. represent the physical remains of one Based on the burial context, the human individual of Native American ancestry. Notice is here given in accordance remains are Native American. Officials of the University of Colorado with the Native American Graves The Indian Land Areas Judicially Museum also have determined that, Protection and Repatriation Act Established 1978 Map indicates the pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003 (5), of the claim to land in southwestern Colorado seven objects described above are completion of an inventory of human is based upon historic use by the Ute reasonably believed to have been placed remains and associated funerary objects and Navajo tribes. The style of the with or near individual human remains in the possession of the University of drawing found in the rock shelter is at the time of death or later as part of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO. The similar to historic Ute pictographs the death rite or ceremony. Lastly, human remains and cultural items were (Legacy on Stone, Sally J. Cole, 1990). officials of the University of Colorado removed from Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, An analysis of the blanket fragments Museum also have determined that, Boulder, Fremont, Huerfano, Larimer,

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