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00531 REV]SED DRAFT (#]0) - August I!, 2004 Clean Version are not "historic properties" (in the sense of being eligible for the National Register), but are nevertheless important resources to the tribes and therefore important resources for consideration under the AMP. The INs Document also uses the term "traditional cultural resources," to include both of the categories "historic properties" and "traditionally Important resources." Like the Final EIS, the INs Document does not expressly address human remains and cultural items covered by NAGPRA, but rather focuses mainly on compliance with NHPA, NEPA, and ESA. The INs Document identifies a number of information needs relating to these places and resources and the effects of dam operations and other activities on these places and resources. Some of the listed Information Needs are particularly relevant for the organization of this section of this Consultation Plan, including Research Information Needs 11.l2c and Il.l.2d: "IdentifY AMP activities that affect National Register eligible sites." "IdentifY NPS permitted activities that affect National Register eligible sites." One inference that can be drawn from these Information Needs is that neither NPS nor the other parties that are engaged in the AMP have a comprehensive understanding of the range of activities and natural processes that may affect historic properties in the River Corridor. Under Management Objective 11.2 - "Preserve resource integrity and cultural resource values of traditionally important resources within the Colorado River Ecosystem" - the INs Document lists five information needs, some of which raise rather sweeping implications about the need to know more about how AMP activities may affect these resources. Similarly, Effects Information Need 11.3. says, "Determine if and how experimental flows and other AMP actions restrict tribal access [to traditional cultural resources]." Moreover, Management Objective 11.3 says: "Protect and maintain physical access to traditional cultural resources through meaningful consultation on AMP activities that might restrict or block physical access by Native American religious and traditional practitioners." This objective recognizes that consultation is essential for the other stakeholders in the AMP to understand how AMP activities may affect resources that are important to the Tribes for cultural and religious reasons. In light of the breadth of the identified needs for information, both in terms of the nature of the places and resources of concern to the Tribes and the range of activities that may affect these places and resources, the basic approach taken in this Part is to use categories that correspond to the federal cultural resource laws. Using these categories, the Protocols in this Part move from broad categories to more narrow ones. In one sense, the categories become narrower because the characteristics that define such places and resources operate to exclude places and resources that do not fit. In another sense, the categories become narrower because the protective regimes established by the federal 22