80_FR_52656 80 FR 52488 - Notice of Inventory Completion: History Colorado, Formerly Colorado Historical Society, Denver, CO

80 FR 52488 - Notice of Inventory Completion: History Colorado, Formerly Colorado Historical Society, Denver, CO

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 168 (August 31, 2015)

Page Range52488-52489
FR Document2015-21493

History Colorado, formerly Colorado Historical Society, has completed an inventory of human remains, in consultation with the appropriate Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and has determined that there is no cultural affiliation between the human remains and any present-day Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. Representatives of any Indian tribe Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control of these human remains should submit a written request to History Colorado. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human remains to the Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 168 (Monday, August 31, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 168 (Monday, August 31, 2015)]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-18957; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: History Colorado, Formerly 
Colorado Historical Society, Denver, CO

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: History Colorado, formerly Colorado Historical Society, has 
completed an inventory of human remains, in consultation with the 
appropriate Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and has 
determined that there is no cultural affiliation between the human 
remains and any present-day Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations. Representatives of any Indian tribe Native Hawaiian 
organization not identified in this notice that wish to request 
transfer of control of these human remains should submit a written 
request to History Colorado. If no additional requestors come forward, 
transfer of control of the human remains to the Indian tribes or Native 
Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.

DATES: 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 should submit a written 
request with information in support of the request to History Colorado 
at the address in this notice by September 30, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Sheila Goff, NAGPRA Liaison, History Colorado, 1200 
Broadway, Denver, CO 80203, telephone (303) 866-4531, email 
[email protected].

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 completion of an inventory of human remains under 
the control of History Colorado, Denver, CO. Seven sets of remains were 
received from the Montezuma County Coroner. They were recovered from 
the vicinity of Cortez or Rangely, Colorado.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 
43 CFR 10.11(d). 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. The National Park Service 
is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.

Consultation

    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by History 
Colorado professional staff in consultation with representatives of the 
Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico; Kewa 
Pueblo, New Mexico (previously listed as the Pueblo of Santo Domingo); 
Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero 
Reservation, New Mexico; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah; 
Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah (Cedar Band of Paiutes, Kanosh Band of 
Paiutes, Koosharem Band of Paiutes, Indian Peaks Band of Paiutes and 
the Shivwits Band of Paiutes) (formerly Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah 
(Cedar City Band of Paiutes, Kanosh Band of Paiutes, Koosharem Band of 
Paiutes, Indian Peaks Band of Paiutes, and Shivwits Band of Paiutes)); 
Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of 
Jemez, New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, New 
Mexico; Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Felipe, New 
Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia, New 
Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, New 
Mexico; Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming;

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Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute Indian Reservation, 
Colorado; Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Utah; Ute 
Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & 
Utah; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of Texas; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 
Reservation, New Mexico. The Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, Crow Creek Sioux 
Tribe of the Crow Creek Sioux Reservation, South Dakota; Fort Sill 
Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico (previously listed 
as the Pueblo of San Juan); Pueblo of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of 
Taos, New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New 
Mexico and Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation were 
invited to consult, but did not participate. Hereafter, all tribes 
listed above are referred to as ``The Consulted and Invited Tribes.''

History and Description of the Remains

    Sometime before 1977, human remains representing, at minimum, six 
individuals were removed from the vicinity of Cortez or Rangely, CO, by 
private citizens. Their son discovered the remains when settling his 
parents' estate and was put in touch with the Montezuma County Coroner, 
who ruled out a forensic interest in the human remains October 2014. 
The remains were then transferred to the Office of the State 
Archaeologist (OSAC), where they are identified as Office of 
Archaeology and Historic Preservation (OAHP) Case Number 307. 
Osteological analysis by Nicholas Zell of Metropolitan State University 
indicates that the human remains are likely of Native American 
ancestry. No known individuals were identified. No associated funerary 
objects are present.
    Sometime in the 1950s, human remains representing, at minimum, one 
individual were removed from a farm near Cortez, CO, by a private 
citizen. His wife discovered them among her late husband's possessions. 
In September 2014, she turned them over to the Montezuma County 
Coroner, who ruled out forensic interest in the human remains. In 
January 2015, the remains were transferred to the Office of the State 
Archaeologist (OSAC), where they are identified as Office of 
Archaeology and Historic Preservation (OAHP) Case Number 308. 
Osteological analysis by Christiane Baigent of Metropolitan State 
University indicates that the human remains are likely of Native 
American ancestry. No known individuals were identified. No associated 
funerary objects are present.
    History Colorado, in partnership with the Colorado Commission of 
Indian Affairs, Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute 
Reservation, Colorado, and the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain 
Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah, conducted tribal 
consultations among the tribes with ancestral ties to the State of 
Colorado to develop the process for disposition of culturally 
unidentifiable Native American human remains and associated funerary 
objects originating from inadvertent discoveries on Colorado State and 
private lands. As a result of the consultation, a process was 
developed, Process for Consultation, Transfer, and Reburial of 
Culturally Unidentifiable Native American Human Remains and Associated 
Funerary Objects Originating From Inadvertent Discoveries on Colorado 
State and Private Lands, (2008, unpublished, on file with the Colorado 
Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation). The tribes consulted 
are those who have expressed their wishes to be notified of discoveries 
in the Southwest and Basin and Plateau Consultation Regions as 
established by the Process, where these individuals originated.
    The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review 
Committee (Review Committee) is responsible for recommending specific 
actions for disposition of culturally unidentifiable human remains. On 
November 3-4, 2006, the Process was presented to the Review Committee 
for consideration. A January 8, 2007, letter on behalf of the Review 
Committee from the Designated Federal Officer transmitted the 
provisional authorization to proceed with the Process upon receipt of 
formal responses from the Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico, and the 
Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma, subject to forthcoming conditions 
imposed by the Secretary of the Interior. On May 15-16, 2008, the 
responses from the Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico, and the Kiowa 
Indian Tribe of Oklahoma were submitted to the Review Committee. On 
September 23, 2008, the Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and 
Parks, as the designee for the Secretary of the Interior, transmitted 
the authorization for the disposition of culturally unidentifiable 
human remains according to the Process and NAGPRA, pending publication 
of a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register. This 
notice fulfills that requirement.
    43 CFR 10.11 was promulgated on March 15, 2010, to provide a 
process for the disposition of culturally unidentifiable Native 
American human remains recovered from tribal or aboriginal lands as 
established by the final judgment of the Indian Claims Commission or 
U.S. Court of Claims, a treaty, Act of Congress, or Executive Order, or 
other authoritative governmental sources. As there is no evidence 
indicating that the human remains reported in this notice originated 
from tribal or aboriginal lands, they are eligible for disposition 
under the Process.

Determinations Made by History Colorado

    Officials of History Colorado have determined that:
     Based on osteological analysis, the human remains are 
Native American.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of seven individuals of 
Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a relationship of shared 
group identity cannot be reasonably traced between the Native American 
human remains and any present-day Indian tribe.
     Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(2)(ii) and the Process, the 
disposition of the human remains may be to the Southern Ute Indian 
Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, and the Ute Mountain 
Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    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 should submit a written request with information 
in support of the request to Sheila Goff, NAGPRA Liaison, History 
Colorado, 1200 Broadway, Denver, CO 80203, telephone (303) 866-4531, 
email [email protected], by September 30, 2015. After that date, 
if no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of 
the human remains to the Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute 
Reservation, Colorado, and the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain 
Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah may proceed.
    History Colorado is responsible for notifying The Consulted and 
Invited Tribes that this notice has been published.

    Dated: June 29, 2015.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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52488 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 168 / Monday, August 31, 2015 / Notices applicant rejected this alternative due to Public Comments not identified in this notice that wish to increased potential effects to the You may submit comments on the request transfer of control of these covered species and increased risk to permit application, HCP, screening human remains should submit a written project workers. form, and associated documents by any request with information in support of one of the methods in ADDRESSES. the request to History Colorado at the Our Preliminary Determination address in this notice by September 30, We are requesting comments on our Public Availability of Comments 2015. preliminary determination that the Before including your address, phone ADDRESSES: Sheila Goff, NAGPRA applicant’s proposal will have a minor number, electronic mail address, or Liaison, History Colorado, 1200 or negligible effect on the covered other personal identifying information Broadway, Denver, CO 80203, telephone species and that the plan qualifies as a in your comment, you should be aware (303) 866–4531, email sheila.goff@ low-effect HCP as defined by our that your entire comment—including state.co.us. Habitat Conservation Planning your personal identifying information— SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is Handbook (November 1996). We base may be made publicly available at any here given in accordance with the our determinations on three criteria: (1) time. While you can ask us in your Native American Graves Protection and Implementation of the proposed project comment to withhold your personal Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. as described in the HCP would result in identifying information from public 3003, of the completion of an inventory minor or negligible effects on federally view, we cannot guarantee that we will of human remains under the control of listed, proposed, and/or candidate be able to do so. History Colorado, Denver, CO. Seven species and their habitats; (2) sets of remains were received from the implementation of the HCP would result Authority Montezuma County Coroner. They were in minor or negligible effects on other We provide this notice under section recovered from the vicinity of Cortez or environmental values or resources; and 10 of the Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) Rangely, Colorado. (3) impacts of the HCP, considered and NEPA regulations (40 CFR 1506.6). This notice is published as part of the together with those of other past, Dated: August 24, 2015. National Park Service’s administrative present, and reasonably foreseeable Stephen P. Henry, responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 similarly situated projects, would not U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 43 CFR 10.11(d). Field Supervisor, Ventura Fish and Wildlife result, over time, in cumulative effects Office, Ventura, California. The determinations in this notice are to environmental values or resources the sole responsibility of the museum, [FR Doc. 2015–21457 Filed 8–28–15; 8:45 am] that would be considered significant. institution, or Federal agency that has BILLING CODE 4310–55–P Based on our analysis of these criteria, control of the Native American human we made a preliminary determination remains. The National Park Service is that approval of the HCP and issuance not responsible for the determinations DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR of an ITP to Southern California Gas in this notice. qualify for categorical exclusion under National Park Service the National Environmental Policy Act Consultation (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), as provided by [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–18957; A detailed assessment of the human the Department of Interior Manual (43 PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] remains was made by History Colorado CFR 46 and 516 DM 8). Based on our Notice of Inventory Completion: professional staff in consultation with review of public comments that we History Colorado, Formerly Colorado representatives of the Hopi Tribe of receive in response to this notice, we Historical Society, Denver, CO Arizona; Jicarilla Apache Nation, New may revise this preliminary Mexico; Kewa Pueblo, New Mexico determination. AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. (previously listed as the Pueblo of Santo Next Steps ACTION: Notice. Domingo); Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Mescalero Apache Tribe of the We will evaluate the permit SUMMARY: History Colorado, formerly Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico; application, including the HCP and Colorado Historical Society, has Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & comments we receive, to determine completed an inventory of human Utah; Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah (Cedar whether the application meets the remains, in consultation with the Band of Paiutes, Kanosh Band of issuance criteria of section 10(a)(1)(B) of appropriate Indian tribes or Native Paiutes, Koosharem Band of Paiutes, the Act and its implementing Hawaiian organizations, and has Indian Peaks Band of Paiutes and the regulations (50 CFR 17.22 and 17.32). determined that there is no cultural Shivwits Band of Paiutes) (formerly We also will evaluate whether issuance affiliation between the human remains Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah (Cedar City of the ITP would comply with section and any present-day Indian tribes or Band of Paiutes, Kanosh Band of 7(a)(2) of the Act by conducting an Native Hawaiian organizations. Paiutes, Koosharem Band of Paiutes, intra-Service consultation consistent Representatives of any Indian tribe Indian Peaks Band of Paiutes, and with section 7 of the Act. We will use Native Hawaiian organization not Shivwits Band of Paiutes)); Pueblo of the results of this consultation, in identified in this notice that wish to Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, combination with the above findings, in request transfer of control of these New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New our final analysis to determine whether human remains should submit a written Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; or not to issue an ITP. If the request to History Colorado. If no Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo additional requestors come forward, tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES requirements are met, we will issue the of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of San ITP to the Applicant for the incidental transfer of control of the human remains Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San take of the California tiger salamander to the Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of and California red-legged frog. We will organizations stated in this notice may Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa make the final permit decision no proceed. Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa sooner than 30 days after the date of this DATES: Representatives of any Indian Clara, New Mexico; Shoshone Tribe of notice. tribe or Native Hawaiian organization the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:19 Aug 28, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00049 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\31AUN1.SGM 31AUN1

Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 168 / Monday, August 31, 2015 / Notices 52489 Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Affairs, Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the final judgment of the Indian Claims Southern Ute Indian Reservation, Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, Commission or U.S. Court of Claims, a Colorado; Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute treaty, Act of Congress, or Executive & Ouray Reservation, Utah; Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Order, or other authoritative Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain Mexico & Utah, conducted tribal governmental sources. As there is no Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & consultations among the tribes with evidence indicating that the human Utah; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of Texas; ancestral ties to the State of Colorado to remains reported in this notice and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, develop the process for disposition of originated from tribal or aboriginal New Mexico. The Apache Tribe of culturally unidentifiable Native lands, they are eligible for disposition Oklahoma, Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of American human remains and under the Process. the Crow Creek Sioux Reservation, associated funerary objects originating South Dakota; Fort Sill Apache Tribe of from inadvertent discoveries on Determinations Made by History Oklahoma; Ohkay Owingeh, New Colorado State and private lands. As a Colorado Mexico (previously listed as the Pueblo result of the consultation, a process was Officials of History Colorado have of San Juan); Pueblo of Pojoaque, New developed, Process for Consultation, determined that: Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico; Transfer, and Reburial of Culturally Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico; Pueblo Unidentifiable Native American Human • Based on osteological analysis, the of Zia, New Mexico and Shoshone- Remains and Associated Funerary human remains are Native American. Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Objects Originating From Inadvertent • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the Reservation were invited to consult, but Discoveries on Colorado State and human remains described in this notice did not participate. Hereafter, all tribes Private Lands, (2008, unpublished, on represent the physical remains of seven listed above are referred to as ‘‘The file with the Colorado Office of individuals of Native American Consulted and Invited Tribes.’’ Archaeology and Historic Preservation). ancestry. The tribes consulted are those who have History and Description of the Remains • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a expressed their wishes to be notified of Sometime before 1977, human relationship of shared group identity discoveries in the Southwest and Basin remains representing, at minimum, six cannot be reasonably traced between the and Plateau Consultation Regions as individuals were removed from the Native American human remains and established by the Process, where these vicinity of Cortez or Rangely, CO, by any present-day Indian tribe. individuals originated. private citizens. Their son discovered The Native American Graves • Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(2)(ii) the remains when settling his parents’ Protection and Repatriation Review and the Process, the disposition of the estate and was put in touch with the Committee (Review Committee) is human remains may be to the Southern Montezuma County Coroner, who ruled responsible for recommending specific Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute out a forensic interest in the human actions for disposition of culturally Reservation, Colorado, and the Ute remains October 2014. The remains unidentifiable human remains. On Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain were then transferred to the Office of the November 3–4, 2006, the Process was Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & State Archaeologist (OSAC), where they presented to the Review Committee for Utah. are identified as Office of Archaeology consideration. A January 8, 2007, letter and Historic Preservation (OAHP) Case on behalf of the Review Committee from Additional Requestors and Disposition Number 307. Osteological analysis by the Designated Federal Officer Representatives of any Indian tribe or Nicholas Zell of Metropolitan State transmitted the provisional Native Hawaiian organization not University indicates that the human authorization to proceed with the identified in this notice that wish to remains are likely of Native American Process upon receipt of formal request transfer of control of these ancestry. No known individuals were responses from the Jicarilla Apache human remains should submit a written identified. No associated funerary Nation, New Mexico, and the Kiowa request with information in support of objects are present. Indian Tribe of Oklahoma, subject to Sometime in the 1950s, human the request to Sheila Goff, NAGPRA forthcoming conditions imposed by the Liaison, History Colorado, 1200 remains representing, at minimum, one Secretary of the Interior. On May 15–16, individual were removed from a farm Broadway, Denver, CO 80203, telephone 2008, the responses from the Jicarilla (303) 866–4531, email sheila.goff@ near Cortez, CO, by a private citizen. His Apache Nation, New Mexico, and the wife discovered them among her late state.co.us, by September 30, 2015. Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma were After that date, if no additional husband’s possessions. In September submitted to the Review Committee. On 2014, she turned them over to the requestors have come forward, transfer September 23, 2008, the Assistant Montezuma County Coroner, who ruled of control of the human remains to the Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and out forensic interest in the human Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Parks, as the designee for the Secretary remains. In January 2015, the remains Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, of the Interior, transmitted the were transferred to the Office of the and the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute authorization for the disposition of State Archaeologist (OSAC), where they Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New culturally unidentifiable human are identified as Office of Archaeology Mexico & Utah may proceed. remains according to the Process and and Historic Preservation (OAHP) Case NAGPRA, pending publication of a History Colorado is responsible for Number 308. Osteological analysis by Notice of Inventory Completion in the notifying The Consulted and Invited Christiane Baigent of Metropolitan State Federal Register. This notice fulfills Tribes that this notice has been tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES University indicates that the human that requirement. published. remains are likely of Native American 43 CFR 10.11 was promulgated on Dated: June 29, 2015. ancestry. No known individuals were March 15, 2010, to provide a process for Melanie O’Brien, identified. No associated funerary the disposition of culturally objects are present. unidentifiable Native American human Manager, National NAGPRA Program. History Colorado, in partnership with remains recovered from tribal or [FR Doc. 2015–21493 Filed 8–28–15; 8:45 am] the Colorado Commission of Indian aboriginal lands as established by the BILLING CODE 4312–50–P VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:19 Aug 28, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00050 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 9990 E:\FR\FM\31AUN1.SGM 31AUN1


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DatesRepresentatives of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control of these human remains should submit a written request with information in support of the request to History Colorado
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