FR Doc 05-16884
[Federal Register: August 25, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 164)]
[Notices]
[Page 49947]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: Louisiana State University Museum
of Natural Science, Baton Rouge, LA; Correction
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; correction.
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Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 43 CFR 10.8 (f), that, upon
publication of this notice in the Federal Register, the Louisiana State
University Museum of Natural Science, Baton Rouge, LA, rescinds the
notice of inventory completion published in the Federal Register of
December 13, 2000 (FR Doc 00-31659, 77908) because the Louisiana State
University Museum of Natural Science has determined that the
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Preservation
Division, Jackson, MS, has legal control of the human remains and
associated funerary objects from the Fatherland site (22AD001), Adams
County, MS.
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.
The December 13, 2000, notice identified the Louisiana State
University Museum of Natural Science as having possession of human
remains and associated funerary objects from the Fatherland site
(22AD001), Adams County, MS. Following publication of the notice,
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Preservation
Division submitted additional documentation regarding control of the
aforementioned items to the Louisiana State University Museum of
Natural Science. Upon evaluation of the new documentation, Louisiana
State University Museum of Natural Science reconsidered its control of
the human remains and associated funerary objects from the Fatherland
site (22AD001) and transferred possession to the Mississippi Department
of Archives and History, Historic Preservation Division in March 2005.
The human remains and associated funerary objects are now in the
possession and control of the Mississippi Department of Archives and
History, Historic Preservation Division.
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic
Preservation Division, as the museum in control of the human remains
and associated funerary objects, is responsible for determining
cultural affiliation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects from the Fatherland site (22AD001). The Mississippi Department
of Archives and History, Historic Preservation Division will consult
and notify the proper groups once cultural affiliation is determined.
Representatives of any tribal government who wish to comment on
this notice should address their comments to Pamela D. Edwards,
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Preservation
Division, P.O. Box 571, Jackson, MS 39205, telephone (601) 576-6940.
Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science is responsible
for notifying the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana that this notice has
been published.
Dated: July 22, 2005.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 05-16884 Filed 8-24-05; 8:45 am]
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