# 2025-15854: Caltrans Prepares to Repatriate Sacred Native Items from Storage

2025-15854, Notice of Inventory Completion: California Department of Transportation, Oakland, CA, is a Federal Register notice from Interior Department, National Park Service published 2025-08-20 (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-15854
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-15854
- Title: Notice of Inventory Completion: California Department of Transportation, Oakland, CA
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Interior Department; National Park Service
- Citation: 90 FR 40648
- Published: 2025-08-20
- Effective: unknown
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Caltrans Prepares to Repatriate Sacred Native Items from Storage

## Summary

Caltrans has finished checking and listing certain Native American items connected to tribes and Native Hawaiian groups. This means these items are officially recognized and ready to be returned to their rightful communities. If you’re part of these tribes or groups, keep an eye out for how and when these objects will be handed back—no money changes hands, just respect and care.

## Abstract

In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has completed an inventory of associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.

## Effects PRIA read

- Repatriation of Tribal Funerary Objects: benefit, low. Caltrans completed an inventory under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and determined that certain associated funerary objects are culturally affiliated with Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations. Those objects are now recognized and ready to be returned…

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## Sources
- [2025-15854 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/20/2025-15854/notice-of-inventory-completion-california-department-of-transportation-oakland-ca)
- [2025-15854 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-08-20/pdf/2025-15854.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-15854 (as of 2026-06-08).