[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 92 (Monday, May 13, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27995-27996]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-11230]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-12785; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion for Native American Human Remains
and Associated Funerary Objects From Lake Texoma, OK, in the Possession
of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District, Tulsa,
OK; Correction
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; correction.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District, has
corrected an inventory of human remains and associated funerary
objects, published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal
Register on September 24, 1997. This notice corrects the number of
associated funerary objects from site 34JN30, Lake Texoma, Johnston
County, OK. Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe
or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish
to request transfer of control of these human remains and associated
funerary objects should submit a written request to the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers, Tulsa District. If no additional requestors come forward,
transfer of control of the human remains and associated funerary
objects to the lineal descendants, Indian tribes, or Native Hawaiian
organizations stated in this notice may proceed.
DATES: Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or
Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to
request transfer of control of these human remains and associated
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in
support of the request to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa
District, at the address in this notice by June 12, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Ms. Michelle Horn, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1645 S.
101st E. Ave., Tulsa, OK 74128, telephone (918) 669-7642.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25
U.S.C. 3003, of the correction of an inventory of human remains and
associated funerary objects under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Tulsa District, OK. The human remains and associated
funerary objects were removed from Lake Texoma, Johnston County, OK.
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This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The
determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native
American human remains and associated funerary objects. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
This notice corrects the number of associated funerary objects from
site 34JN30, published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the
Federal Register (62 FR 49993, September 24, 1997). Transfer of control
of the items in this correction notice has not occurred.
Correction
In the Federal Register (62 FR 49993, September 24, 1997),
paragraph three is corrected by substituting the following paragraph:
In 1971, human remains representing a minimum of two individuals
were removed from site 34JN30, Lake Texoma, in Johnston County, OK.
The human remains were excavated by the Oklahoma Archaeological
Society and were originally curated at the Oklahoma Museum of
Natural History (OMNH). After transfer to the U. S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Tulsa District, in 1995, the human remains were
inventoried for NAGPRA. At that time, no associated objects were
located. In 2003, the collection was re-inventoried at LopezGarcia
Group, Dallas, TX, and then transferred to OMNH, under the control
of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District. In addition to
human remains, associated funerary objects were located during the
2003 inventory. No known individuals were identified. The 228
associated funerary objects are 7 metal tools, 5 metal buttons, 15
metal fragments, 14 red glass beads, 16 glass bottle fragments, 29
historic ceramic sherds, 1 prehistoric ceramic sherd, 128 unmodified
faunal bone fragments, 1 modified deer rib, 3 bone buttons, 4
chipped stone flakes, 2 wooden buttons, 1 historic clay pipe bowl
fragment, 1 bark sample, and 1 unmodified mussel shell fragment.
In the Federal Register (62 FR 49992, September 24, 1997) paragraph
seven, sentence two is corrected by substituting the following
paragraph:
Officials of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District,
have also determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the
239 objects listed above are reasonably believed to have been placed
with or near individual human remains at the time of death or later
as part of the death rite or ceremony.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to
request transfer of control of these human remains and associated
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in
support of the request to Ms. Michelle Horn, U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, 1645 S. 101st E. Ave, Tulsa, OK 74128, telephone (918) 669-
7642, by June 12, 2013. After that date, if no additional requestors
have come forward, transfer of control of the human remains and
associated funerary objects to the Chickasaw Nation may proceed.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District is responsible for
notifying the Chickasaw Nation that this notice has been published.
Dated: April 8, 2013.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2013-11230 Filed 5-10-13; 8:45 am]
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