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2.04.4(1) <br />A paleontological assessment of the Spruce Stomp Lease project area <br />was made by a review of the local geological formations to ascertain their <br />potential to yield significant fossil remains, and a reconnaissance of the <br />exposures within the study boundaries. The formation exposed in the <br />study area is the upper Mesaverde. Mostly continental in formation, the <br />upper Mesaverde represents the last deposits related to the dominantly <br />fluvial homogeneous environment of the Late Cretaceous inland seas. <br />Due to the lack of recorded fossil findings in the upper Mesaverde, the <br />potential for finding fossils in this member was considered to be very low. <br />As the majority of the study area is covered in a blanket of soil and <br />vegetation, few exposures of this formation occur and consist mainly of <br />ledge faces. No fossils were found in these exposures during the <br />inventory. <br />The Operator intents to raze the coal sales house that is located west of <br />Pond D. In 1996, the coal sales house was recorded to Historic American <br />Buildings Survey /Historic American Engineering Record (NABS /HAER) Level <br />II standards. In 2014 an Architectural Inventory Form was prepared for the <br />coal sales house. The Form was submitted to History Colorado and <br />accepted so the coal sales house can be razed. <br />MR -168 2.04 -11 ii - 11/14 <br />