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Cultural Resource Historic Properties Treatment Plan for BK -2-062518 Colowyo Coal Company <br />1.0 INTRODUCTION AND PROJECT BACKGROUND <br />Colowyo Coal Company (Colowyo) is constructing the facilities associated with their Collom <br />Expansion Project (the Project). Tetra Tech has been contracted to provide Archaeological <br />Monitoring services for Elk Ridge Mining and Reclamation (Elk Ridge) on the behalf of Colowyo. <br />The archaeological monitoring has been conducted in accordance with Exhibit 5, Item 3 -Cultural <br />Resource Protection Plan (Plan) for the Collom Mine Expansion filed by Colowyo to the Office of <br />Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement (OSMRE) as part of their mine permit. The <br />cultural resource monitoring is being executed in conformance to the High Potential Area (HPA) <br />Monitoring section outlined in the Plan. <br />The following Historic Properties Treatment Plan (HPTP) was developed in response to a <br />prehistoric site (Site BK -2-062518) discovery on June 25, 2018. The site cannot be avoided by <br />the Project and faces complete removal. The HPTP outlines the research design that will direct <br />data recovery measures and the methodology that will be employed to collect data in support of <br />the research design. <br />1.1 Project and Discovery Location <br />The Project is in southern Moffat County and north of the community of Meeker, Colorado. The <br />Project is situated on privately held Colowyo land to the northwest of their existing open pit coal <br />mining operations. The prehistoric discovery is located along a culvert for the haul road overpass <br />crossing Country Road 51 in the northeast quarter of Section 21 of T4N, R93W (Figure 1). The <br />discovery was observed during topsoil removal along the southern edge of the haul road overpass <br />culvert. Prior to ground disturbance no cultural resource manifestations were observed on the <br />surface at this locality. To date the site's cultural resource manifestation is limited to one potential <br />thermal feature (Figure 2). <br />Tetra Tech June 29, 2018 <br />