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<br /> <br />cations were going to be made that will effect the future of mineral <br />development. Give us a better one. That's the approach we took. <br />John Julian is our mineral specialist and has had to really, I think, <br />bite the bullet and come up with this, approach and deal with a lot <br />of difficult things within his own peer group. <br /> <br />Mr. Macias. This was a question I would like to ask. Are you <br />aware of whether the individual members of the Advisory Committee <br />are going out to their people on the outside in their same field to <br />transmit information that took place during the meetings and get <br />reactions so they can bring them back1 <br /> <br />Mr. Pfulb, Exactly. In fact that is one of their functions and <br />I am happy to see the real interest that all the members have had in <br />putting in their own time and acting as a liaison in that way. They <br />really have helped us in some of these things, particularly that are <br />controversial within a specialized field. I am sure, in the future <br />as we get into the results of these inventories, they are starting <br />to come in now. As the results come in they are going to be very <br />important I think in the creditibility that needs to be developed <br />between the public and ourselves. So we have tried to keep them on <br />board all the way and so far as I can tell they are giving their <br />support. Even though some of the things we are doing are unusal. <br />Same way with cultural resources no one has every through a sampling <br />system like this attempted to sample cultural resources sites <br />archaeological finds in a systematic approach and relate that to the <br />natural system in the historic natural system and come out with a <br />predicted model as to where you can find, probably find, certain kind <br />of archaeological sites. We tested it about a year ago after we had <br />finished the Uhaw Desert Plan. We moved into the El Paso Red <br />Mountain Area and we were able to inventory in that area to test out. <br />This is the small first geographic unit we work in after the comple- <br />tion of the ICM vehicle plan. We developed a methodology basically <br />of cultural resources review and prediction in this area. We got <br />up into this area in the next unit and tested it out in relation to <br />a current application for geothermal steam development. Using the <br />methodology our archaeologist predicted the areas of highest prob- <br />ability for finding certain kinds of sites. When they went into <br />the Red Mountain planning unit then in connection with that appli- <br />cation to do a more intensive survey they were doing up to a 2S per- <br />cent sample within that project area. The2S percent sample came out <br />too close to our projected sample. We are never going to be that <br />close, it made us feel pretty good. The methodology is usable if <br />you have a very disciplined systematic approach over the whole desert. <br /> <br />B-12 <br />