81 FR 4654 - Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Defense, Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District, Charleston, SC; Correction

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 17 (January 27, 2016)

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District has corrected an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register on March 16, 2015. This notice corrects the number of associated funerary objects.

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 17 (Wednesday, January 27, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4654-4655]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-01590]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-19979; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Defense, Army 
Corps of Engineers, Charleston District, Charleston, SC; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District has 
corrected an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects 
published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register 
on March 16, 2015. This notice corrects the number of associated 
funerary objects.

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 Charleston District at the address in 
this notice by February 26, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Mr. Alan Shirey, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston 
District, ATTN: CESAC-PM-PL, 69A Hagood Avenue, Charleston, SC 29403-
5107, telephone (843) 329-8166, 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 correction of an inventory of human remains and 
associated funerary objects under the control of the Charleston 
District of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. The human remains and 
associated funerary objects were removed from Berkeley County, SC.
    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 
published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register 
(80 FR 13614, March 16, 2015). Additional boxes of material that 
contained associated funerary objects were identified by the repository 
after the original inventory. These items were inventoried in March 
2015, after the publication of the initial Notice. Transfer of control 
of the items in this correction notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (80 FR 13615, March 16, 2015), column 1, 
sentence 6, under the heading ``History and Description of the 
Remains,'' is corrected by substituting the following sentence:

    The 113,227 associated funerary objects are 3 beads, 323 ceramic 
sherds, 350 concretions, 106,771 faunal fragments, 60 fossils (shell 
and coral), 2,281 lithic flakes (orthoquartzite, chert, and quartz), 
23 lithic tool fragments, 29 lots of faunal fragments, 95 lots of 
screened material, 99 soil samples, 228 lots of processed flotation. 
4 lots of phytolith samples, 25 organics (wood, seeds, and snail 
shell), 1 piece of groundstone, 2,569 pieces of miscellaneous stone/
pebbles, 97 pieces of charcoal, 1 glass fragment, 10 shell 
fragments, and 258 pieces of ochre (red and yellow).

    In the Federal Register (80 FR 13615, March 16, 2015), column 2, 
bullet 3, is corrected by substituting the following sentence:

    Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A) the 113,227 objects described 
in this notice 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 Mr. Alan Shirey, U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers, Charleston District, ATTN: CESAC-PM-PL, 69A Hagood Avenue, 
Charleston, SC 29403-

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5107, telephone (843) 329-8166, email [email protected] by 
February 26, 2016. After that date, if no additional requestors have 
come forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects to the Catawba Indian Nation may proceed.
    The Charleston District of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers is 
responsible for notifying the Catawba Indian Nation that this notice 
has been published.

    Dated: December 10, 2015.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2016-01590 Filed 1-26-16; 8:45 am]
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