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Notices
NEWS ON NOTICES
The National NAGPRA Program is in the process of notifying those museums and federal agencies with draft documents submitted in 2002 and prior, but which have not yet given their approval to publish a notice, that the pending document will be deemed withdrawn if not promptly approved by them as a notice to be published. To be in compliance with the law, those museums and federal agencies are encouraged to refresh their efforts, in consultation with tribes, and submit notices for publication. About NAGPRA Notices
As
part of the NAGPRA compliance process, the National NAGPRA program
assists museums and Federal agencies in publishing Notices of Inventory
Completion and Notices of Intent to Repatriate in the Federal
Register.
A
Notice of Inventory Completion is published when a museum
or Federal agency has made a determination of cultural affiliation
for Native American human remains and associated funerary objects
in its possession or control. By law these were due November 1995.
A
Notice of Intent to Repatriate is published when a museum
or Federal agency, in consultation with tribes, receives, reviews, and accepts a claim by a tribe
for sacred objects, unassociated funerary objects, or objects of
cultural patrimony.
A Notice
of Intended Disposition is published in newspapers by the Federal
agency official responsible for cultural items excavated or removed
from Federal lands. The responsible Federal agency official must send copies of published Notices of Intended Disposition
to National NAGPRA.
Notice
Templates
Notice templates
are available in Word, and may be downloaded for use in preparing
draft Federal Register notices to be sent to National NAGPRA. Draft Federal Register notices may be sent via mail or delivery service as an electronic file on disk and should also be sent as an e-mail attachment to Jaime Lavallee.
Many of the terms that are used in Notices of Inventory Completion and Notices of Intent to Repatriate have specialized meanings under NAGPRA. Such terms include:
Published
Notices
The text of published
Federal Register notices may be viewed in either HTML or PDF formats.
Select from:
A table of published Notices
of Intended Disposition is available in PDF.
State Reports
Provenience data, including State, County, and Site information, derived from published Notices of Inventory Completion have been assembled in the following MS Word Documents. Click here for Help in using these tables.
For more information
regarding notices and the NAGPRA compliance process, see Law
and Regulations.
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