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Building, Washington, DC 20510– The Final Environmental Impact community study, visitor and 3002 Statement is presented in an abbreviated community surveys, a transportation Honorable Robert G. Torricelli U.S. format. It must be integrated with the analysis, neighborhood meetings, and Senate, Washington, DC 20510–3001 Marsh-Billings National Historical Park other resource inventories and Honorable Richard Santorum, U.S. Draft General Management Plan/Draft assessments. In a Draft-General Senate, SR 120 Senate Russell Office Environmental Impact Statement issued Management Plan/Draft Environmental Bldg., Washington, DC 20510 in April 1998, to be considered a Impact Statement that underwent 60 Honorable , U.S. Senate, complete document reflecting the full days of public review, the National Park SH–530 Hart Senate Office Bldg., proposal and alternative, and all Service presented and evaluated two Washington, DC 20510–3802 significant environmental impacts. The management scenarios (the Proposal Honorable , U.S. House of two documents together compose the and the Alternative) and described five Representatives, Cannon House Office complete Final Environmental Impact management options that were Bldg., Washington DC 20515 Statement. considered, but rejected by the planning Honorable Don Sherwood, U.S. House Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National of Representatives, Washington DC team. After considering public and Historical Park is the only national park agency comment, the National Park 20515–3810 to focus on conservation history and the Honorable Margaret Roukema, U.S. Service adopted the draft plan’s evolving nature of land stewardship in Proposal as the final plan. House of Representatives, 2244 America. Opened in June of 1998, Rayburn House Office Bldg., ’s first national park preserves Availability Washington, DC 20515–3005 and interprets the historic Marsh- Honorable , State Capitol, Billings-Rockefeller property in The FEIS is available for a period for Harrisburg, PA 17120 Woodstock. The park is named for thirty days, beginning on the date of the Honorable Christine Whitman, State George Perkins Marsh, Frederick Environmental Protection Agency House, Trenton, NJ 08625 Billings, and Laurance S. Rockefeller. publication in the Federal Register. The Kemp Library, East Stroudsburg George Perkins Marsh was one of the National Park Service will take no University, E Stroudsburg PA 18301 action for the thirty-day period of State Library of , P.O. Box nation’s first global environmental thinkers (who grew up on the property). availability, after which time a Record 1601, Harrisburg, PA 17105 of Decision will be prepared and made Easton Area Public Library, 6th and Frederick Billings was an early available. Church Street, Easton PA 18042 conservationist who established a Sussex County Library, 125 Morris progressive dairy farm and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public Turnpike, Newton NJ 07860 professionally managed forest on the reading copies of the FEIS will be New Jersey State Library, 185 West former Marsh farm. Frederick Billing’s available for review at Marsh-Billings- State Street, CN 520, Trenton NJ 08625 granddaughter, Mary French Rockefeller National Historical Park, 54 Eastern Monroe Public Library, 1002 Rockefeller, and her husband, Elm Street, Woodstock, Vermont. For North Ninth Street, Stroudsburg PA conservationist Laurance S. Rockefeller further information, please contact the 18360 came to own the property in the 1950s. Superintendent, Marsh-Billings- Pike County Library, 201 Broad Street, They sustained Billings’s mindful Rockefeller National Historical Park, Milford PA 18337. practices in forestry and farming on the P.O. Box 178, Woodstock, Vermont Dated: June 15, 1999. property over the latter half of the 05091; voice at (802) 457–3368; fax at J. Robert Kirby, twentieth century. In 1983, they (802) 457–3405. established the Billings Farm & Museum Acting Superintendent. to continue the farm’s working dairy Dated: May 25, 1999. [FR Doc. 99–15913 Filed 6–22–99; 8:45 am] and to interpret rural Vermont life and Terry W. Savage, BILLING CODE 4310±70±P agricultural history. The Billings Farm & Superintendent, Boston Support Office. Museum is operated by the Woodstock [FR Doc. 99–15912 Filed 6–22–99; 8:45 am] Foundation, Inc. as a private nonprofit BILLING CODE 4310±70±M DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR educational institution. Marsh-Billing-Rockefeller National National Park Service Historical Park was created in 1992 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Notice of Availability; Final when the Rockefellers’ gave the estate’s Environmental Impact Statement for residential and forest lands to the National Park Service the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National people of the . Today, the Historical Park Final General park interprets the history of Notice of Draft Principles of Agreement Management Plan conservation with tours of the Marsh- Regarding the Disposition of Culturally Billings-Rockefeller mansion and the Unidentifiable Human Remains AGENCY: National Park Service. surrounding 550-acre forest—one of the ACTION: Availability for 30 days of Final oldest planned and continuously AGENCY: National Park Service Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) managed woodlands in America. ACTION: for Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Working in partnership, the park and Notice Historical Park Final General the museum present historic and Management Plan. contemporary examples of conservation Section 8 (c)(5) of the Native stewardship and interpret the lives and American Graves Protection and SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(c) contributions of George Perkins Marsh, Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) (25 U.S.C. of the National Environmental Policy Frederick Billings and his descendants, 3006 (c)(5)) requires the Review Act of 1969, the National Park Service and Mary and Laurance S. Rockefeller. Committee to recommend specific announces the availability of the Final The National Park began to plan for actions for developing a process for the Environmental Impact Statement for the management of Marsh-Billings- disposition of culturally unidentifiable Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Rockefeller National Historical Park in Native American human remains. The Historical Park Final General 1993. Park planners conducted a Review Committee has developed the Management Plan. conservation stewardship workshop, a following draft principles of agreement

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The process be primarily in the agencies, museums, and claimants and the review committee’s draft principles hands of Native people (as the nearest worth the effort to implement. of agreement should send written next of kin), d. Enforceable. There is no point in comments to: b. Repatriation is the most reasonable making regulations that can not or will The NAGPRA Review Committee and consistent choice. not be enforced. c/o Departmental Consulting 5. Additionally, a fundamental 2. Since human remains may be Archeologist tension exists within the statute determined to be culturally National Park Service (2275) between the legitimate and long denied unidentifiable for different reasons, 1849 C St. NW. (NC340) need to return control over ancestral there will be more than one appropriate Washington DC, 20240 remains and funerary objects to Native disposition/repatriation solution. Comments received by August 15, people, and the legitimate public Examples: 1999 will be considered by the interest in the educational, historical a. Human remains that are, committee at its next scheduled and scientific information conveyed by technically, culturally unidentifiable meeting. For additional information, those remains and objects. (25 U.S.C. because the appropriate claimant is not please contact Dr. C. Timothy McKeown 3002 (c); 25 U.S.C. 3005 (b)) federally recognized [section B(3)(a.) at (202) 343-4101. B. Culturally Unidentifiable Human above], may be repatriated once federal Note: We will not accept any Remains. recognition has been granted, or if the comments in electronic form. 1. Federal agencies and museums claimant works with another culturally Dated: June 15, 1999. must make a decision as to whether all affiliated, federally recognized Indian Francis P. McManamon, Native American human remains are tribe (example-- the Titicut site / Departmental Consulting Archeologist, related to lineal descendants, culturally Mashpee case). Manager, Archeology and Ethnography affiliated with a present day Federally b. Human remains for which there is Program. recognized Indian tribe, or are culturally little or no information [section B(3)(c. DRAFT PRINCIPLES OF unidentifiable. This determination must and d.) above] should be speedily AGREEMENT be made through a good faith evaluation repatriated since they have little At its June 25-27, 1998 meeting, the of all relevant, available documentation educational, historical or scientific NAGPRA Review Committee examined and consultation with any appropriate value. the legislative history of NAGPRA and Indian tribe. 3. Documentation. discussed both the law’s intent and how 2. A determination that human a. Since documentation is required to proceed with one of the Committee’s remains are culturally unidentifiable (25 U.S.C. 3003 (b)(2)), it is appropriate most pressing tasks-- making may change as additional information that it be conducted in accordance with recommendations on the disposition of becomes available. defined standards. culturally unidentifiable human 3. Human remains can be identified as b. Documentation should be remains. One result was a set of ‘‘culturally unidentifiable’’ for different proportional to the importance of the principles. Working from these, the reasons. At present, four categories are information conveyed. For example, Review Committee offers the following recognized: remains from a defined past population draft principles of agreement as a next a. Those which are culturally for which no present-day Indian tribe step for discussion. The Committee affiliated, but with a non-Federally exists [section B(3)(b.) above] are of far wishes to underscore the preliminary recognized Native American group. greater educational, historical and nature of these principles and their b. Those which represent a defined scientific importance than those for placement as a beginning point for past population, but for which no which there is little or no information consideration of this topic. present day Indian tribe exists. [section B(3)(c) and (d) above]. A. Intent of NAGPRA. c. Those for which some evidence c. Appropriate documentation 1. The legislative intent of NAGPRA exists, but insufficient for a Federal includes non-invasive techniques such is stated by the statute’s title, the agency or museum to make a as measurement, description and ‘‘Native American Graves Protection determination of cultural affiliation. photography. and Repatriation Act’’. d. Those for which no information d. Invasive testing is not required for 2. Specifically, the statute mandates: exists. statutory documentation. Such testing a. The disposition of all Native C. Guidelines for the disposition of may be performed if agreed upon by the American human remains and cultural culturally unidentifiable human parties in consultation. items excavated on Federal lands after remains. e. Documentation prepared for November 16, 1990, 1. Four principles must serve as the compliance with the statute is a public b. The repatriation of culturally foundation for any regulations on the record. affiliated human remains and associated disposition of culturally unidentifiable D. Models for the disposition of funerary objects in Federal agency and human remains. They must be: culturally unidentifiable human museum collections, a. Respectful. Culturally remains. c. The development of regulations for unidentifiable human remains are no 1. Joint recommendations by the disposition of unclaimed remains less deserving of respect than those for institutions, Federal agencies, or states and objects (under 25 U.S.C. 3002) and which culturally affiliation can be and appropriate claimants. The Review culturally unidentified human remains established. While the Review Committee has recommended the in Federal agency and museum Committee is aware that the term repatriation of culturally unidentifiable collections (under 25 U.S.C. 3006). ‘‘culturally unidentifiable’’ is inherently human remains in those cases where:

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a. All the relevant parties have agreed DPEIS. These comments addressed an and revises the storage, retention and in writing, inconsistency that was discovered in the disposal, and system manager and b. Statutory requirements have been Project Simulation Model (PROSIM) address sections. All other changes met, hydrology shortly before the DPEIS was proposed are editorial in nature. c. The guidelines listed above have completed. Murlin Coffey, been followed. DATES: The supplement to the DPEIS Manager, Property and Office Services. These cases have included will be released to the public in early institutions (University of Nebraska, July 1999. INTERIOR/WBR±43 Lincoln), units of the National Park FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Service (Carlsbad Caverns NP and SYSTEM NAME: Guadalupe Mountains NM), and states Alan Candlish, Bureau of Reclamation, 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, Real Estate Comparable Sales Data (Minnesota and Iowa). Storage. 2. Regional consultations California 95825; (916) 978–5190. Historical and cultural factors, and Dated: June 15, 1999. SYSTEM LOCATION: therefore issues concerning the Kirk C. Rodgers, Mid-Pacific Regional Office, 2800 definition and disposition of culturally Acting Regional Director. Cottage Way, Sacramento, California unidentifiable human remains, vary [FR Doc. 99–15923 Filed 6–22–99; 8:45 am] significantly across the United States. 95825. BILLING CODE 4310±94±P For example, issues in the Southeast, where most Indian tribes were forcibly CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE SYSTEM: removed during the 19th century, are DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR very different from those in the Individuals who own or lease Southwest where many Indian tribes Bureau of Reclamation property adjacent to or within the remain on their ancestral lands. vicinity of property owned or leased by Similarly, issues in the Northeast and Privacy Act of 1974, as Amended; the Bureau of Reclamation. California differ significantly from those System of Records in the Great Plains. Therefore, it is CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, reasonable to look for regional solutions Interior. Records contain data on the physical that best fit regional circumstances. and nonphysical characteristics of The Review Committee recommends a ACTION: Notice of minor changes to a system of records. properties having transferred ownership process in which the Federal agencies, within the vicinity of Federal institutions and Indian tribes within a SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of reclamation projects. Ownership region consult together and propose the the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (5 transfers are defined herein as a transfer most appropriate disposition solutions U.S.C. 552a), notice is hereby given that by deed, agreements to sell or purchase, for that region. the Department of the Interior is leases, and contracts. In addition to the As with joint recommendations, any updating a system of records managed property characteristics, the records proposed regional disposition must by the Bureau of Reclamation contain the terms, names, addresses, meet both statutory requirements and (Reclamation). The changes are to the and telephone numbers of the parties the guidelines listed above. system of records ‘‘Real Estate involved, plus other official recorded [FR Doc. 99–15975 Filed 6–22–99; 8:45 am] Comparable Sales Data Storage, WBR– data. BILLING CODE 4310±70±F 43’’ which is published in its entirety below. AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM: DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DATES: These actions are effective June (1) The Reclamation Act of 1902, as 23, 1999. amended and acts supplemental thereto, Bureau of Reclamation FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 43 U.S.C. 371, et seq.; and (2) Uniform information regarding ‘‘Real Estate Relocation Assistance and Real Property Central Valley Project Improvement Comparable Sales Data Storage, WBR– Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, 42 Act, Central Valley, CA 43’’ contact Mr. Graham McMullen, U.S.C. 4651, et seq. AGENCY Chief, Land Resources Branch at (916) : Bureau of Reclamation, PURPOSE(S): Interior. 978–5260. For general information regarding Reclamation’s Privacy Act ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare a (1) To make available to the program, contact Mr. Casey Snyder at supplement to the draft programmatic Department of the Interior data (303) 445–2048. environmental impact statement concerning real estate which has (DPEIS). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When transferred ownership within the originally published in the Federal vicinity of a Bureau of Reclamation SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(c) Register this system of records was project; (2) For use as comparable data of the National Environmental Policy identified with an organization prefix of involving real estate appraisals in Act of 1969, the Bureau of Reclamation ‘‘LWP’’ (i.e., LWP–43). The content of connection with acquisition programs, is preparing a supplement to the DPEIS the system of records is the same; the land disposals or leases of land owned for the Central Valley Project prefix on this system was changed to by the United States, or appraisals of Improvement Act. The original DPEIS reflect organizational changes. excess land in compliance with the was released for public review on This system of records notice was acreage limitation; and (3) To make November 7, 1997, and numerous previously published in the Federal available to independent appraisers, comments addressing a wide range of Register on March 11, 1980 (45 FR which are under contract with the issues were received on the document. 15684). This publication revises the Bureau of Reclamation or the Reclamation is preparing this system location, adds a purpose Department of Justice, comparable data supplement in response to a general statement which was not included in for use in connection with an appraisal group of comments received on the the original system of records notice, assignment.

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