2018-09-04_GENERAL DOCUMENTS - C1980007

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17 Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. This report can be found in Exhibit 10 of the permit document. No sites were found as a result of the field study. Additional surveys for Jumbo Mountain were completed by Western Cultural Resource Management, Inc. (WCRM, Inc.) during October and November 1993. Map 7A shows the areas surveyed during the field reconnaissance. A literature search was conducted by WCRM, Inc. in September 1993. That search identified 15 cultural resource reports. Those reports are listed in Exhibit 10A. Exhibit 10B contains the results of the survey. Exhibit 11 contains clearance documentation from the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO). A Class II Cultural Resource Assessment was conducted by Metcalf Archeological Consultants, Inc., with the results of the assessment contained in a report dated January 1995. This report was submitted with PR-6 and is contained in Exhibit 10C. The SHPO was contacted by the Division on August 21, 1995, and the SHPO indicated concurrence with the submittal. The SHPO indicated in a letter to the Division dated October 5, 2007 that the Deep Creek Ditch was found to be ineligible for the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The SHPO indicated in a letter to the Division dated September 8, 2008 that one cultural resources site had been recorded in the PR-14 project area. The site had been recommended as not eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, but adverse effects to this site should be avoided until the site can be reevalauated and officially determined if it is eligible for listing. The letter was forwarded to MCC who acknowledged existence of the site by email on September 25, 2008 (PR-14 file). MCC has committed to stopping work wherever cultural or archaeological resources are discovered during surface disturbing activities until the SHPO can provide consultation (Section 2.04.4 of the permit application). As for most of Colorado, the PR-14 project area has not been fully inventoried for cultural resources and the activities proposed in PR-14 have the potential to affect unidentified cultural resources. The State Historic Preservation Office indicated in a letter to the Division, dated February 15, 2011, that a finding of no historic properties affected is appropriate for Permit Renewal RN-6 because no new surface disturbance is proposed. A Cultural Resource Survey was conducted by ERO Resources Corporation of Durango, CO, for the lands added to the permit area with PR-15. The survey was negative for cultural resources within the area of potential effect, and a determination of “no historic properties affected” was recommended. The report was added to the PAP as Exhibit 10f. Geology - Rules 2.04.5 and 2.04.6 The applicant describes the geology of the permit and adjacent area in Section 2.04.6 of the PAP. Additional information is detailed on Map 9, which details the geology of the permit area, as well as the coal outcrop line, and the strike and dip of the F, E and B Seams. Stratigraphic information is shown on Maps 10 through 23. The permit area lies on the southeast margin of the Piceance Basin and just south of Grand Mesa. The general geology of this area consists of gently (three to five degrees) north northeast dipping beds of sandstone, shale, and coal of upper Cretaceous and early Tertiary age.