81 FR 89145 - Notice of the 2017 Meeting Schedule for the Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park Advisory Commission
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 237 (December 9, 2016)
National Park Service
Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 237 (December 9, 2016)
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| FR Document | 2016-29552 |
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 237 (Friday, December 9, 2016)] [Notices] [Pages 89145-89146] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-29552] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service [NPS-NERO-PAGR-22339; PX.PR166532I.00.1] Notice of the 2017 Meeting Schedule for the Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park Advisory Commission AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice of meetings. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: As required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. Appendix 1-16), the National Park Service (NPS) is hereby giving notice for the 2017 meeting schedule for the Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park Advisory Commission. The Commission is authorized by the Omnibus Public Land Management Act, (16 U.S.C. 410lll), ``to advise the Secretary in the development and implementation of the management plan.'' Agendas for these meetings will be provided on the Commission Web site at http://www.nps.gov/pagr/parkmgmt/federal-advisory-commission.htm. DATES: The Commission will meet on the following dates in 2017: Thursday, January 12, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. (snow date: Thursday, January 19, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.) (EASTERN); Thursday, April 13, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. (EASTERN); Thursday, July 13, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. (EASTERN); and Thursday, October 12, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. (EASTERN). ADDRESSES: The January and July meetings will be held at the Rogers Meeting Center, 32 Spruce Street, Paterson, NJ 07501; and the April and October meetings will be held at The Paterson Museum, 2 Market Street, Paterson, NJ 07501. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Darren Boch, Superintendent and Designated Federal Officer, Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park, 72 McBride Avenue, Paterson, NJ 07501, (973) 523-2630, or email [email protected]. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Topics to be discussed include updates on the status of the Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park General Management Plan. The meetings will be open to the public and time will be reserved during each meeting for public comment. Oral comments will be summarized for the record. If individuals wish to have their comments recorded verbatim, they must submit them in writing. Written comments and requests for agenda items may be sent to: Federal Advisory Commission, Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park, 72 McBride Avenue, Paterson, NJ 07501. Before including your address, telephone number, email address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment--including your personal identifying information--may be made publicly available at any time. While you may ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. All comments will be made part of the public record and [[Page 89146]] will be electronically distributed to all Committee members. Alma Ripps, Chief, Office of Policy. [FR Doc. 2016-29552 Filed 12-8-16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4312-52-P
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Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, committee of the International Council Park Advisory Commission. The
Georgia on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and Commission is authorized by the
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona a report by an expert from the World Omnibus Public Land Management Act,
Commission on Protected Areas on (16 U.S.C. 410lll), ‘‘to advise the
White Sands National Monument, New places in the U.S. identified as priorities Secretary in the development and
Mexico for global conservation and which may implementation of the management
Proposed Additions to U.S. World have potential for World Heritage plan.’’ Agendas for these meetings will
Heritage Tentative List listing. The ICOMOS international be provided on the Commission Web
secretariat provided, under contract site at http://www.nps.gov/pagr/
Cultural Sites with the National Park Service, parkmgmt/federal-advisory-
Ellis Island, New Jersey and New York preliminary evaluations of a short list of commission.htm.
cultural candidate sites, which also DATES: The Commission will meet on
Chicago Early Skyscrapers, Illinois, informed the Working Group’s
Including: [Other Properties May Be the following dates in 2017:
recommendations.
Added in the Course of Developing a The United States Department of the Thursday, January 12, 2017, 2:00 p.m.–
Nomination] Interior is now considering whether to 5:00 p.m. (snow date: Thursday,
—Rookery initiate the preparation of draft January 19, 2017, 2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.)
—Auditorium Building nominations for any of the remaining (EASTERN);
—Monadnock Building properties on the current Tentative List Thursday, April 13, 2017, 2:00 p.m.–
—Ludington Building to the World Heritage List. Brief 5:00 p.m. (EASTERN);
—Marquette Building descriptions of the properties appear on Thursday, July 13, 2017, 2:00 p.m.–5:00
—Old Colony Building the National Park Service, Office of p.m. (EASTERN); and
—Schlesinger & Mayer (Carson, Pirie International Affairs Web site: https:// Thursday, October 12, 2017, 2:00 p.m.–
Scott) Department Store www.nps.gov/subjects/ 5:00 p.m. (EASTERN).
—Second Leiter Building internationalcooperation/ ADDRESSES: The January and July
—Fisher Building worldheritage.htm. meetings will be held at the Rogers
All comments will be a matter of Meeting Center, 32 Spruce Street,
Central Park, New York Paterson, NJ 07501; and the April and
public record. Before including an
Brooklyn Bridge, New York address, phone number, email address, October meetings will be held at The
Moravian Bethlehem District, or other personal identifying Paterson Museum, 2 Market Street,
Pennsylvania information in a comment, members of Paterson, NJ 07501.
the public should be aware that the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Natural Sites entire comment—including personal Darren Boch, Superintendent and
Marianas Trench National Monument, identifying information—may be made Designated Federal Officer, Paterson
U.S. Territory, Commonwealth of the public at any time. While commenters Great Falls National Historical Park, 72
Northern Mariana Islands, Guam can request that personal identifying McBride Avenue, Paterson, NJ 07501,
information be withheld from public (973) 523–2630, or email darren_boch@
Central California Current, California, review, it may not be possible to comply nps.gov.
Including with this request. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Topics to
—Cordell Bank National Marine Authority: 54 U.S.C. 307101; 36 CFR part be discussed include updates on the
Sanctuary 73. status of the Paterson Great Falls
—Monterey Bay National Marine National Historical Park General
Dated: November 30, 2016.
Sanctuary Management Plan.
—Greater Farallones National Marine Michael J. Bean,
The meetings will be open to the
Sanctuary Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish
and Wildlife and Parks.
public and time will be reserved during
—Farallon Islands National Wildlife each meeting for public comment. Oral
Refuge [FR Doc. 2016–29528 Filed 12–8–16; 8:45 am]
comments will be summarized for the
—Point Reyes National Seashore BILLING CODE 4312–52–P
record. If individuals wish to have their
—Golden Gate National Recreation Area comments recorded verbatim, they must
Big Bend National Park, Texas DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR submit them in writing. Written
comments and requests for agenda items
Pacific Remote Islands National may be sent to: Federal Advisory
Monument, U.S. Territorial Waters National Park Service
Commission, Paterson Great Falls
In developing recommendations for [NPS–NERO–PAGR–22339; National Historical Park, 72 McBride
additions to the Tentative List, the PX.PR166532I.00.1] Avenue, Paterson, NJ 07501.
Working Group considered all the Before including your address,
Notice of the 2017 Meeting Schedule
suggestions that had been submitted to telephone number, email address, or
for the Paterson Great Falls National
the Department of the Interior since the other personal identifying information
Historical Park Advisory Commission
current Tentative List was developed in in your comment, you should be aware
2008, during both formal comment AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. that your entire comment—including
periods and through other channels. your personal identifying information—
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ACTION: Notice of meetings.
There were well over 100 of these may be made publicly available at any
suggestions, including both specific SUMMARY: As required by the Federal time. While you may ask us in your
properties and thematic ideas. The Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. comment to withhold your personal
Working Group also considered Appendix 1–16), the National Park identifying information from public
additional suggestions contained in the Service (NPS) is hereby giving notice for review, we cannot guarantee that we
January 2016 ‘‘U.S. World Heritage Gap the 2017 meeting schedule for the will be able to do so. All comments will
Study Report’’ by the U.S. national Paterson Great Falls National Historical be made part of the public record and
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will be electronically distributed to all responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 or associations of traditional
Committee members. U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in practitioners of specific kinds of
this notice are the sole responsibility of indigenous medicinal and ceremonial
Alma Ripps,
the museum, institution, or Federal practices. Some consultants identified
Chief, Office of Policy. agency that has control of the Native these clans as existing in the pre-contact
[FR Doc. 2016–29552 Filed 12–8–16; 8:45 am] American cultural items. The National period, and identified some as also
BILLING CODE 4312–52–P Park Service is not responsible for the existing in the present day. Other
determinations in this notice. consultants do not recognize present-
day geographical divisions to be related
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR History and Description of the Cultural
to clans of traditional practitioners.
Items
Ethnographic evidence suggests that the
National Park Service In 1978, 132 cultural items were social and political organizations of the
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–22483; removed from Lindero Canyon (CA– pre-contact Channel Islands were
PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] VEN–606) in Ventura County, CA. primarily at the village level, with a
Collections from the site derive from a hereditary chief, in addition to many
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural survey and excavation led by Dr. other specialists who wielded power.
Items: Fowler Museum at the William Clewlow, Jr., during the North The unassociated funerary objects are
University of California Los Angeles, Ranch Inland Chumash research project. consistent with funerary objects placed
Los Angeles, CA A second investigation was conducted by groups ancestral to the present-day
in 1979 under the direction of Holly Chumash people. The material culture
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Love and Rheta Resnick. Excavations of those earlier groups living in the
ACTION: Notice. took place on land privately owned by geographical areas mentioned above is
the Prudential Insurance Company. The characterized by archeologists as having
SUMMARY: The Fowler Museum at the collections were curated at UCLA in
University of California Los Angeles passed through developmental stages
1979. The site has been dated to the Late over the past 10,000 years. Many local
(UCLA), in consultation with the Period, A.D. 1300–1650. During
appropriate Indian tribes or Native archeologists assert that the changes in
excavations a cemetery was discovered the material culture reflect evolving
Hawaiian organizations, has determined and 13 burials were uncovered and left
that the cultural items listed in this ecological adaptations and related
in-situ, but burial objects were removed changes in social organization of the
notice meet the definition of for study. Funerary objects were
unassociated funerary objects. Lineal same populations, and do not represent
identified as being removed from six population displacements or
descendants or representatives of any burials (MM, HH, LL, EE, KK, and 2).
Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian movements. The same range of artifact
The unassociated funerary objects are types and materials were used from the
organization not identified in this notice 126 objects and 6 bags of artifacts,
that wish to claim these cultural items early pre-contact period until historic
including 12 pieces and 4 bags of shell times. Native consultants explicitly state
should submit a written request to the fragments, 2 shell beads, 62 stone flakes,
Fowler Museum at UCLA. If no that population mixing, which did
1 cobble, 3 quartz crystals, 41 pieces occur on a small scale, would not alter
additional claimants come forward, and 2 bags of unmodified animal bone,
transfer of control of the cultural items the continuity of the shared group
4 ochre fragments, and 1 charcoal lump. identities of people associated with
to the lineal descendants, Indian tribes, Since the represented burials were left
or Native Hawaiian organizations stated specific locales. Based on this evidence,
in situ the curated burial items are continuity of occupation by the
in this notice may proceed. unassociated funerary objects. Chumash people can be traced for the
DATES: Lineal descendants or The site detailed in this notice has site listed in this notice.
representatives of any Indian tribe or been identified through consultation to
Native Hawaiian organization not be within the traditional territory of the Determinations Made by the Fowler
identified in this notice that wish to Chumash. These locations are consistent Museum at UCLA
claim these cultural items should with ethnographic and historic Officials of the Fowler Museum at
submit a written request with documentation. UCLA have determined that:
information in support of the claim to The Chumash territory, • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B),
the Fowler Museum at UCLA at the anthropologically defined first on the the 132 cultural items described above
address in this notice by January 9, basis of linguistic similarities, and are reasonably believed to have been
2017. subsequently on broadly shared material placed with or near individual human
and cultural traits, reaches from San remains at the time of death or later as
ADDRESSES: Wendy G. Teeter, Ph.D., Luis Obispo to Malibu on the coast,
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Box 951549, part of the death rite or ceremony and
inland to the western edge of the San are believed, by a preponderance of the
Los Angeles, CA 90095–1549, telephone Joaquin Valley, to the edge of the San
(310) 825–1864, email wteeter@ evidence, to have been removed from a
Fernando Valley, and includes the four specific burial site of a Native American
arts.ucla.edu. Northern Channel Islands. The site individual.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is listed in this notice is located in • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there
here given in accordance with the Ventura County and falls within the is a relationship of shared group
Native American Graves Protection and geographical area identified as identity that can be reasonably traced
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. Chumash. Some consultants state that
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between the unassociated funerary
3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural these areas were the responsibility of objects and the Santa Ynez Band of
items under the control of the Fowler regional leaders, who were themselves Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa
Museum at UCLA that meet the organized into a pan-regional Ynez Reservation, California.
definition of unassociated funerary association of both political power and
objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001. ceremonial knowledge. Further, these Additional Requestors and Disposition
This notice is published as part of the indigenous areas are identified by some Lineal descendants or representatives
National Park Service’s administrative consultants to be relational with clans, of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian
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| Dates | The Commission will meet on the following dates in 2017: | |
| Contact | Darren Boch, Superintendent and Designated Federal Officer, Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park, 72 McBride Avenue, Paterson, NJ 07501, (973) 523-2630, or email [email protected] | |
| FR Citation | 81 FR 89145 |
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