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Federal Register / Vol. 72, No.

100 / Thursday, May 24, 2007 / Notices 29173

Comments and petitions should be release of the supplemental draft DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
submitted to the Division of Dockets document EISs.
Management. Three copies of any FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: National Park Service
mailed information are to be submitted, Shelley Smith, Project Manager, BLM
except that individuals may submit one Notice of Inventory Completion:
Utah State Office, P.O. Box 45155, Salt
copy. Comments are to be identified Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum,
Lake City, Utah 84145–0155; telephone:
with the docket number found in Honolulu, HI; Correction
(801) 539–4053; e-mail:
brackets in the heading of this shelley_smith@blm.gov. The public may AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
document. Comments and petitions may also contact Howard Cleavinger, ACTION: Notice; correction.
be seen in the Division of Dockets Assistant Field Manager, BLM Vernal
Management between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Field Office, 170 South 500 East, Vernal, Notice is here given in accordance
Monday through Friday. Utah 84078; telephone: (435) 781–4480; with the Native American Graves
Dated: May 7, 2007. e-mail: howard_cleavinger@blm.gov or Protection and Repatriation Act
Jane A. Axelrad, Floyd Johnson, Assistant Field Manager, (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of a revision
Associate Director for Policy, Center for Drug BLM Price Field Office, 125 South 600 to an inventory of human remains in the
Evaluation and Research. West, Price, Utah 84501; telephone: possession of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop
[FR Doc. E7–10052 Filed 5–23–07; 8:45 am] (435) 636–3650; e-mail: Museum (Bishop Museum), Honolulu,
BILLING CODE 4160–01–S
floyd_johnson@blm.gov. Or, the public HI.
may visit the Price RMP Web site at This notice is published as part of the
http://www.blm.gov/rmp/ut/price and National Park Service’s administrative
the Vernal RMP Web site at http:// responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
www.blm.gov/rmp/ut/vernal. U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations
Bureau of Land Management SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: There are in this notice are the sole responsibility
multiple areas in the Price and Vernal of the museum, institution, or Federal
[UT933–07–4310–DP] agency that has control of the Native
Field Offices, outside of existing
wilderness study areas (WSAs), found to American human remains and
Notice of Intent To Prepare
have wilderness characteristics in associated funerary objects. The
Supplemental Draft Resource
previous inventories. The BLM’s Land National Park Service is not responsible
Management Plans and Environmental
Use Planning Handbook (H–1601–1) for the determinations in this notice.
Impact Statements for the Vernal and
provides guidance for consideration of This notice corrects information
Price Field Offices, Utah
non-WSA lands with wilderness reported in a Notice of Inventory
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, characteristics in land use planning. Completion for the Bishop Museum
Interior. The handbook provides that the BLM published in the Federal Register on
ACTION: Notice of intent. consider these lands and resource August 27, 1997 (FR Doc 97–22736,
values in planning, and prescribe pages 45437–45438). Officials of the
SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that Bishop Museum have determined that
measures to protect wilderness
the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), characteristics. These characteristics 24 of the 34 cultural items published in
Vernal and Price Field Offices, Utah, are include appearance of naturalness, the original notice do not meet the
preparing Supplemental Draft Resource outstanding opportunities for solitude, definition of human remains at 43 CFR
Management Plans/Environmental or outstanding opportunities for 10.2 (d)(1) because while these items
Impact Statements (Draft RMP/EIS) to primitive and unconfined recreation. contain human remains, the items
include additional information and To ensure compliance with the ruling themselves are not considered human
analyses of wilderness characteristics on in the court case, Southern Utah remains under NAGPRA definitions.
lands outside existing Wilderness Study Wilderness Alliance et al. v. Gale The 24 cultural items that are being
Areas (WSAs). This information and Norton, in her official capacity as removed from the inventory are listed
analysis includes multiple areas in both Secretary of the Interior et al. (Utah below.
the Vernal and Price Field Office District Court, Case No. In 1889, Joseph S. Emerson sold a
planning areas. 2:04CV574DAK), regarding the sale and wood image from Waimea, O’ahu, to the
DATES: Because the BLM has previously issuance of oil and gas leases on lands Bishop Museum. Human hair is
requested (Federal Register, Volume 66, outside of existing WSAs with incorporated in this object. No known
Number 48, March 12, 2001, pages wilderness characteristics, the BLM is individual was identified.
14415–14417, and Federal Register, supplementing its consideration of non- In 1889, a helmet (or wig)
Volume 66, No. 216, November 7, 2001, WSA lands with wilderness incorporating human hair and a refuse
pages 56343–56344) and received characteristics in land use planning. container incorporating human teeth
extensive information from the public BLM shall ensure that (1) adequate and bone were bequeathed to the Bishop
on issues to be addressed in these consideration is given to wilderness Museum by Queen Emma. No known
RMPs, and because the Council on characteristics in ongoing RMPs, (2) a individual was identified.
Environmental Quality (CEQ) range of alternatives is analyzed for In 1889, a kahili incorporating human
regulations for implementing the management of these lands, and (3) an bone became part of the original
National Environmental Policy Act adequate analysis is prepared from collections of the Bishop Museum. This
(NEPA) do not require additional which to base decisions for future oil kahili was given to Bernice Pauahi by
scoping for this supplemental draft and gas leasing. Ke’elikolani. No known individual was
RMP/EIS process (40 CFR 1502.9(c)( 4), identified.
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the BLM is not asking for further public Dated: April 4, 2007. In 1891, a refuse container
information and comment at this time. Jeff Rawson, incorporating human teeth and a kahili
This issue has been defined in earlier Associate State Director. incorporating human bone were
scoping efforts. A 90-day public [FR Doc. E7–10032 Filed 5–23–07; 8:45 am] acquired with the collections of the
comment period will be provided upon BILLING CODE 4310–DQ–P Hawaiian National Museum which were

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