# 2025-11146: College District Moves to Return Ancestors and a Funerary Object

2025-11146, Notice of Inventory Completion: Los Rios Community College District, Sacramento, CA, is a Federal Register notice from Interior Department, National Park Service published 2025-06-17, effective 2025-07-17 (as of 2026-11-03).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-11146
- As of: 2026-11-03
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-11146
- Title: Notice of Inventory Completion: Los Rios Community College District, Sacramento, CA
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Interior Department; National Park Service
- Citation: 90 FR 25630
- Published: 2025-06-17
- Effective: 2025-07-17
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-03

## In one line

College District Moves to Return Ancestors and a Funerary Object

## Summary

Los Rios Community College District found human remains and a funerary object from Native American ancestors during a 2024 campus audit. These items, taken decades ago from sites in Santa Barbara County, are now ready to be returned to the affiliated tribes starting July 17, 2025. This respectful repatriation honors Native heritage and follows important legal steps, with no costs or hazards involved.

## Abstract

In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Los Rios Community College District (LRCCD) 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

- Repatriation available starting July 17, 2025: benefit, low. Human remains of three Native American individuals and one associated funerary object (a stone mano) are scheduled to be returned to an affiliated tribe or descendant. Repatriation may occur on or after July 17, 2025; the remains were located in 2024 during a campus audit and were removed decades e…
- Santa Ynez Band identified as affiliated: benefit, low. Los Rios Community College District determined there is a reasonable cultural affiliation between the remains and the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez Reservation, California. That identified tribe is explicitly named as an eligible requestor for repatriation.
- Who may request repatriation and competing claims: benefit, low. Repatriation requests may be submitted by any one or more of the tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations named in the notice, or by lineal descendants or other tribes/organizations that show cultural affiliation by a preponderance of the evidence. If competing requests are received, the Los Rios Co…
- No record of hazardous treatment of remains: benefit, low. Los Rios Community College District reports it does not have records showing the human remains or the associated funerary object were treated with potentially hazardous substances. The items were found during a 2024 campus-wide audit of collections.

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## Sources
- [2025-11146 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/17/2025-11146/notice-of-inventory-completion-los-rios-community-college-district-sacramento-ca)
- [2025-11146 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-06-17/pdf/2025-11146.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-11146 (as of 2026-11-03).