# 2025-19966: Army Corps Returns Ancient Remains: Bureaucracy Meets Ancestral Respect

2025-19966, Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District, San Francisco, CA, is a Federal Register notice from Interior Department, National Park Service published 2025-11-17, effective 2025-12-17 (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-19966
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-19966
- Title: Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District, San Francisco, CA
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Interior Department; National Park Service
- Citation: 90 FR 51390
- Published: 2025-11-17
- Effective: 2025-12-17
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Army Corps Returns Ancient Remains: Bureaucracy Meets Ancestral Respect

## Summary

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in San Francisco has finished checking and listing Native American human remains and related items found in Sonoma County. These remains and objects are linked to local tribes and could be returned starting December 17, 2025. If you want to request the return, you can contact the Corps before then—no money changes hands, just respect and care.

## Abstract

In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District 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 of Sonoma County remains: benefit, low. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed an inventory showing human remains representing six Native American individuals and 7,871 associated funerary objects from multiple Sonoma County sites. The Corps determined these remains and objects are culturally affiliated with the Cloverdale Rancheria…

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## Sources
- [2025-19966 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/17/2025-19966/notice-of-inventory-completion-us-army-corps-of-engineers-san-francisco-district-san-francisco-ca)
- [2025-19966 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-17/pdf/2025-19966.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-19966 (as of 2026-06-08).