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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".06" citation="COMAR 34.04.06.06" title_num="34" subtitle_num="04" chapter_num="06" heading="Petition to Identify Lineal Descendant or Cultural Affiliation.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Petition to Identify Lineal Descendant.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>A person not identified in the inventory as a lineal descendant of listed human remains or an associated funerary object may submit to the Trust a petition to be identified in the inventory as a lineal descendant.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>A petition submitted pursuant to this section shall include documentation or other evidence that establishes, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the petitioner is a lineal descendant of the remains or object.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Petition to Identify Cultural Affiliation.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>A group not identified in the inventory as having a cultural affiliation with listed human remains or an associated funerary object may submit to the Trust a petition to be identified in the inventory as a culturally affiliated group.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>A petition submitted pursuant to this section shall include documentation or other evidence that establishes, by a preponderance of the evidence, that:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>The petitioner has a cultural affiliation with the remains or object; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>If the petitioner is a Native American tribe:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>The deceased individual was a member of a Native American tribe or group; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>The petitioner has a cultural affiliation with the Native American tribe or group of which the deceased individual was a member.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>The documentation or evidence required by this section may include historical, geographical, kinship, biological, archeological, anthropological, or linguistic information, folklore, oral history, tradition, or other relevant information or expert opinion.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Review of Petition.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>For a petition submitted under §A of this regulation, the Director shall within 90 days of the Trust’s receipt of the petition:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Review the petition;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Determine whether to grant or deny the petition; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Send written notice to the petitioner of the Director’s determination.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>For a petition submitted under §B of this regulation, the Director shall:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>If the petition is from a group that claims a cultural affiliation based on an ethnicity for which there is an ethnic commission, send to the relevant ethnic commission:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>A copy of the petition; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>A request that, within 60 days of the Director sending the copy, the commission provide to the Director the commission’s comments, if any, on the petition; and</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Within 120 days of the Trust’s receipt of the petition:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Review the petition and any comments received by the Director from an ethnic commission;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Determine whether to grant or deny the petition; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>Send written notice to the petitioner of the Director’s determination.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>After the Director makes a determination on a petition under §C of this regulation, the Trust shall:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Promptly return to the petitioner any original documents and personal memorabilia submitted by the petitioner; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Retain a copy of all original documents and an inventory of all personal memorabilia submitted with the petition.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>A determination of the Director made under §§C of this regulation shall be final and is not a contested case within the meaning of State Government Article, Title 10, Subtitle 2, Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>