# 2025-11013: Florida Completes Inventory of Ancient Remains at Little Salt Spring

2025-11013, Notice of Inventory Completion: Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, FL, is a Federal Register notice from Interior Department, National Park Service published 2025-06-16, effective 2025-07-16 (as of 2026-11-02).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-11013
- As of: 2026-11-02
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-11013
- Title: Notice of Inventory Completion: Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, FL
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Interior Department; National Park Service
- Citation: 90 FR 25365
- Published: 2025-06-16
- Effective: 2025-07-16
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-02

## In one line

Florida Completes Inventory of Ancient Remains at Little Salt Spring

## Summary

The Florida Department of State has finished checking and listing ancient human remains and burial items found at Little Salt Spring. These remains belong to Native American tribes, and starting July 16, 2025, they can be returned to their rightful communities. This process helps honor Native cultures and doesn’t involve any costs or hazards.

## Abstract

In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Florida Department of State (FDOS) 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

- Remains and Artifacts Eligible for Return: benefit, medium. The Florida Department of State has identified human remains of at least three individuals and 447 associated funerary objects from Little Salt Spring. These remains and objects may be repatriated (returned) to an appropriate requestor on or after July 16, 2025.
- Cultural Affiliation Identified: Seminole Tribe: benefit, medium. The Florida Department of State determined there is a cultural affiliation between the identified human remains and associated funerary objects and the Seminole Tribe of Florida. That determination supports the Seminole Tribe of Florida's claim to request repatriation.
- Who May Request Repatriation: benefit, low. Written requests to receive the human remains and funerary objects may be submitted to the Florida Department of State by any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations identified in the notice, or by a lineal descendant or tribe/organization not listed that shows by a prepon…

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## Sources
- [2025-11013 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/16/2025-11013/notice-of-inventory-completion-florida-department-of-state-tallahassee-fl)
- [2025-11013 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-06-16/pdf/2025-11013.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-11013 (as of 2026-11-02).