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<br />~7 <br /> <br />REVISED DRAFT (#10) - Augustll, 2004 <br />Clean Version <br /> <br />(c-3) NPS responsibilities for discoveries on federallaods. NPS will be <br />responsible for ensuring that the requirements of the NAGPRA regulations are met, <br />including: <br /> <br />- Certifying the receipt of notice; <br />- Taking immediate steps, if necessary, to further secure and protect the <br />inadvertently discovered human remains and/or cultural items; <br />- Ensuring that all of the Tribes receive telephone notice of the discovery, with <br />written confmnation; <br />- Inviting all of the Tribes to participate in consultation regarding the inadvertent <br />discovery, pursuant to 910.5 of the NAGPRA regulations, and managing any <br />such consultation that does take place; <br />- Ensuring that, if a decision is made that the human remains and/or cultural <br />items must be excavated or removed, the requirements of 91 O.3(b) of the <br />NAGPRA regulations will be followed (i.e. treatment as intentional excavation, <br />addressed in Protocol (e), below; and <br />- Ensuring that, if the hwnan remains and/or cultural items are excavated or <br />otherwise removed, the disposition of these items will be carried out <br />consistently with 910.6 ofthe NAGPRA regulations. <br /> <br />(c-4) Responsibilities of tribal officials for tribal lands. For any inadvertent <br />discovery on tribal lands (i.e., lands within the boundaries of a Reservation), the tribal <br />official designated in Addendwn _ shall be responsible for ensuring that the <br />requirements of the NAGPRA regulations are met, including: <br /> <br />- Certifying the receipt of notice; <br />- Taking immediate steps, if necessary, to further secure and protect the <br />inadvertently discovered hwnan remains and/or cultural items; <br />- Ensuring that, if a decision is made that the hwnan remains andlor cultural <br />items must be excavated or removed, the requirements of 91 0.3(b) of the <br />NAGPRA regulations will be followed (i.e. treatment as intentional excavation, <br />addressed in Protocol (e), below); and <br />- Ensuring that, if the human remains and/or cultural items are excavated or <br />otherwise removed, the disposition of these items will be carried out <br />consistently with 910.6 of the NAGPRA regulations. <br /> <br />(c-S) Discoveries on lands for which reservation status is subject to <br />disagreement. Discoveries on such lands will be treated as federal lands for purposes of <br />the responsibilities ofNPS, until the point at which a decision is made on whether the <br />hwnan remains and/or cultural items must be excavated or removed. NPS will consult <br />with the tribe that asserts that the land is within its reservation regarding immediate steps <br />that may be necessary to further secure and protect the discovered human remains and/or <br />cultural items, and the tribe may share the responsibility for taking such steps. In the <br />event that NPS determines that the human remains and/or cultural items must be <br /> <br />28 <br />