# 2025-08482: Iowa Archaeologists Prepare Washington Ancestors for Return to Tribes

2025-08482, Notice of Inventory Completion: Office of the State Archaeologist, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, is a Federal Register notice from Interior Department, National Park Service published 2025-05-14 (as of 2026-10-20).

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- As of: 2026-10-20
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-08482
- Title: Notice of Inventory Completion: Office of the State Archaeologist, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Interior Department; National Park Service
- Citation: 90 FR 20488
- Published: 2025-05-14
- Effective: unknown
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-10-20

## In one line

Iowa Archaeologists Prepare Washington Ancestors for Return to Tribes

## Summary

The University of Iowa’s Office of the State Archaeologist has finished checking some old human remains and burial items from Washington State. They’ve figured out which Native American tribes these remains belong to and plan to return them starting June 13, 2025. This means tribes connected to these items will get them back, honoring their heritage without any cost or delay.

## Abstract

In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Office of the State Archaeologist Bioarchaeology Program (OSA BP) has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.

## Effects PRIA read

No economic effects identified for this document.

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## Sources
- [2025-08482 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/14/2025-08482/notice-of-inventory-completion-office-of-the-state-archaeologist-university-of-iowa-iowa-city-ia)
- [2025-08482 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-05-14/pdf/2025-08482.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-08482 (as of 2026-10-20).