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Cultural Resource Site Assessments for Collom Expansion Project Colowyo <br />1.0 UNDERTAKING/PROJECT DESCRIPTION <br />Colowyo Coal Company L.P. (Colowyo) is in the process of developing the Collom expansion <br />project (Collom). The expansion is located east of their current coal mining operations north of <br />the community of Meeker in Moffat and Rio Blanco Counties, Colorado. In 2005 Collom contracted <br />TRC Mariah Associates (TRC), through Maxim Technologies, to conduct a baseline Class III <br />cultural resource inventory as part of a coal leasing application filed with the Bureau of Land <br />Management (BLM) (Lowe et al. 2006). The inventory encountered 51 previously recorded sites, <br />73 newly recorded sites, and 69 isolated finds. <br />In 2015 Colowyo requested that Tetra Tech conduct cultural resource site condition assessments <br />for 15 of the 2005 recorded NRHP eligible or "Needs Data" sites. The assessments are the first <br />condition assessment for the sites since the baseline report (Lowe et al. 2006). Additionally, <br />Colowyo requested that Tetra Tech define High Potential Areas (HPAs) within Colowyo's <br />permitted disturbance areas for Collom. HPAs are areas that have a high potential for the burial <br />and preservation of cultural resources that could be impacted during mine related activities. Tetra <br />Tech utilized GIS -based suitability analysis to define HPAs. <br />Tetra Tech July 25, 2016 <br />For Official Use Only* Disclosure of Site Locations Prohibited (43 CFR 7.18) <br />