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<br /> <br />Cultural <br /> <br /> <br />Our cultural heritage is a nonrenewable <br />resource. Recognizing this, the cultural <br />resources program, implemented by the Upper <br />Colorado Region, concentrates on providing <br />the planning and construction branches with <br />the necessary data on cultural resources to <br />minimize any adverse effects of Reclamation <br />projects. In-house and contract surveys are <br />conducted to locate, test, and evaluate the <br />resources and, if necessary, data recovery is <br />undertaken through contract to mitigate major <br />project impacts. <br /> <br />The initial stage of location and evaluation of <br />the data is accomplished in-house as well as <br />by contract. The Grand Junction Projects <br />Otfice, the Utah Projects Office, and the <br />Cortez Construction Offrce have archeologists. <br />This provides the avenue to integrate the <br />management of cultural resources with the <br />overall goals of the Bureau of Reclamation. <br />The Utah Projects Office completed 36 in- <br />house surveys and reported the findings to the <br />public and archeological communities. In <br />addition, the Strawberry Valley Historical <br />District mitigation has been completed. <br /> <br /> <br />Site of Anasazi Greal Kiva, Dolores Project. <br /> <br />Three proJects, under Executive Order 11593, <br />deal with surveys of the Bonneville and Vernal <br />Units of the Centrai Utah Project and the <br />Provo River Project. The Class III surveys have <br />been completed by the contractor and the <br />reports are compieted. <br /> <br />Ten in-house surveys relating to the Colorado <br />River Storage Project were accomplished by <br />the Grand Junction Projects Office. An inven- <br />tory of artitacts recovered during the Old <br />Dallas Historical Archeological Project was <br />completed. Local museums have been <br />contacted to display a selected sample of the <br />artifacts from the project. The report is in the <br />first stages of editing and is anticipated to be <br />completed by December 1984. <br /> <br />The Upper Colorado Region is divided into <br />three areas covered by three Basic Ordering' <br />Agreements to conduct surveys which are too <br />large or too time-consuming to be done with <br />Reclamation resources. The areas are the <br />West Slope of Colorado, the Four Corners <br />area, and Utah. <br /> <br /> <br />The largest ongoing project in the Upper <br />Colorado Region IS the Dolores Archeological <br />Project (DAP). The project began in 1978, with <br />the summer of 1982 seeing the completion of <br />mitigation work in all but three sites. Excava- <br />tion has provided the archeologist with the <br />data and artifacts to interpret the Anasazi _ <br />the prehistoric people of the area. The DAP <br />personnel will have recovered information from <br />more than 200 sites within the project <br />boundaries by the ciose of the 1983 field <br />season. The final reports are due in 1986. <br /> <br />These cultural resources belong to the people. <br />To this end, the Bureau of Reclamation has <br />submitted to the E&R Center the design data <br />package for the Anasazi Heritage Center. <br />Once constructed, the center will house the <br />artifacts recovered during the DAP activity and <br />provide the public with a glimpse of the past <br />that is now preserved as a nationallrust. <br /> <br />19 <br />