83 FR 52536 - Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Defense, Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District, Nashville, TN; Correction

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 201 (October 17, 2018)

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District (USACE), has corrected an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register on August 8, 2017. This notice corrects the minimum number of individuals and the number of associated funerary objects.

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 201 (Wednesday, October 17, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 52536]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-22586]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

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

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District (USACE), 
has corrected an inventory of human remains and associated funerary 
objects, published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal 
Register on August 8, 2017. This notice corrects the minimum number of 
individuals and the number of associated funerary objects.

ADDRESSES: Dr. Valerie McCormack, Archeologist, Department of Defense, 
Nashville District, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 
Nashville District, 110 9th Avenue South, Room A-405, Nashville, TN 
37203, telephone (615) 736-7847, 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 U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers, Nashville District, Nashville, TN. The human remains and 
associated funerary objects were removed from Lyon County, KY.
    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 minimum number of individuals and number 
of associated funerary objects published in a Notice of Inventory 
Completion in the Federal Register (82 FR 37108, August 8, 2017). A re-
inventory of the collection was unable to locate one of the associated 
funerary objects listed in the earlier notice, but did locate 
additional human remains and associated funerary objects.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (82 FR 37108, August 8, 2017), column 2, 
paragraph 3, sentence 1 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    In 1959, human remains representing, at minimum, 132 individuals 
were removed from the Tinsley Hill Cemetery site (15LY18b).

    In the Federal Register (82 FR 37108, August 8, 2017), column 2, 
paragraph 3, sentence 2 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    The remains include 21 adult males, five adult probable males, 
20 adult females, six adult probable females, 30 adults of 
indeterminate sex, 29 subadults, 20 infants, and one individual of 
indeterminate age and sex.

    In the Federal Register (82 FR 37108, August 8, 2017), column 2, 
paragraph 3, sentence 4 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    The 540 associated funerary objects are 323 pottery sherds, five 
burned clay, two projectile points, 11 chipped stone tool fragments, 
two stone drill fragments, two stone cores, one stone celt, one 
flint chisel, one fluorspar pendant, 38 debitage, two quartz, one 
sandstone, 24 UID stones, 21 cannel coal, one splinter bone awl, one 
worked antler tip, two deer teeth, one elk tooth, 16 UID bones, nine 
pieces of shell, 17 shells, nine pieces of charcoal, one mica, three 
red ochre, three crinoids, one fossil coral, one soil sample, 19 
iron nails, five pieces of iron, one metal carpet tack, two plastic 
buttons, 12 ceramics, one brown glass, and one lead.

    In the Federal Register (82 FR 37108, August 8, 2017), column 2, 
paragraph 4, sentence 8 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    The eight associated funerary objects are four pottery sherds, 
one broken antler tip drilled lengthwise through the base, and three 
faunal fragments.

    In the Federal Register (82 FR 37108, August 8, 2017), column 3, 
paragraph 3, sentence 2 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described in 
this notice represent the physical remains of 141 individuals of 
Native American ancestry.

    In the Federal Register (82 FR 37108, August 8, 2017), column 3, 
paragraph 3, sentence 3 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 548 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

    For questions related to this notice, contact Dr. Valerie 
McCormack, Archeologist, Department of Defense, Nashville District, 
Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District, 
110 9th Avenue South, Room A-405, Nashville, TN 37203, telephone (615) 
736-7847, email [email protected].
    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District, is 
responsible for notifying the Cherokee Nation; Eastern Band of the 
Cherokee Indians; and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in 
Oklahoma that this notice has been published.

    Dated: September 20, 2018.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2018-22586 Filed 10-16-18; 8:45 am]
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