Published by the DOI Departmental Consulting Archeologist/NPS Archeology Program, National Park Service, Washington, DC, April 1992.

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Endnotes

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1. The terms "museum" and "repository" are used interchangeably to indicate any facility as defined in Curation of Federally-Owned and Administered Archeological Collections, 36 CFR Part 79, Section 79.4(j).

2. It is important to note that fully one-third of the states have yet to enact some form of state-level curation legislation to ensure basic care for those collections which do not fall under Federal jurisdiction (Carnett 1991, Fig. 1).

3. Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-601, 25 U.S.C. 3001-3013)

4. 36 CFR Part 79.5(d), 79.12, Curation of Federally-Owned and Administered Collections; Proposed Rule. Published in the Federal Register 55(177):37671-37672. (1990)

5. At present, there is no centralized site file that contains listings of all known sites that are recorded in various institutional (museums, universities, etc.) files for the State of New York.

6. P.L. 59-209, 16 U.S.C. 431-433 (1906); 43 CFR Part 3.

7. P.L. 96-95, as amended by P.L. 100-555 and 100-588, 16 U.S.C. 470aa-mm (1988), 43 CFR Part 7.

8. 36 CFR Part 6l.4(b)(3), Procedures for Approved State and Local Government Historic Preservation Programs.

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