Comment on FR Doc # E7-15823

I am extremely angry over the issue with Berkley and the Hearst Museum's lack of cooperation with NAGPRA. and I am sure they are not the only agency guilty of non cooperation with NAGPRA laws. Is it possible to write into the NAGPRA laws that all applicable agencies holding human remains, funiary, ceremonial and sacred objects who do not comply with NAGPRA"S Laws and time lines as to tribal repatriation or returning unidentifiable,unclaimed remains and above objects to the place of origin where they were originally found, that NAGPRA could devise a provision enabling NAGPRA itself to confiscate said remains and objects from those places that refuse to comply and take over control of them so they can be readily available for proper re interment thru tribal applications or returned to the place they were found? I never thought of this at the time I wrote my comments here the other day. Many such agencies have not complied with NAGPRA's criteria and time frame for accomplishing the complete cateloging ,testing, and processing tribal requests. I think a penalty of losing their collections to NAGPRA agents for not complying is a reasonable provision. They have had since 1990 to do this. I know NAGPRA itself would see that these remains and items would be properly processed and placed with coinsiding tribes once in their care. The unidentified cultural remains could then be turned over to the THPO's living near the areas where the remains and objects were found to properly re inter them.