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ABSTRACT <br /> At the request of Uinta Mining, LLC and the Colorado State Land Board, Office of <br /> Solid Minerals, Grand River Institute (GRI) conducted a Class III (intensive) cultural <br /> resources inventory for the proposed Skull Creek Sand Project in Moffat County, Colorado. <br /> Approximately 127 acres of State Board land was inventoried. All work was performed <br /> under State of Colorado Permit No. 75594. The project was completed by Carl Conner <br /> (Principal Investigator and Field Supervisor), Barbara Davenport, Natalia Conner, and <br /> Nicole Inman. <br /> The project consists a proposed disturbance area of approximately 127 acres <br /> designated the"affected area"and not the entire lease boundary. The survey is required <br /> under the Colorado State lease held by Uinta Mining LLC. <br /> Files at History Colorado's Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation(OAHP) <br /> were reviewed through the on-line Compass database on the 7' of August 2019. Also <br /> consulted were the General Land Office (GLO) records. The searches revealed that two <br /> Class III cultural resource inventories and fourteen cultural resources have been reported <br /> within one-mile of the inventory boundary. No cultural resources were previously recorded <br /> within the present study area. <br /> The Class III cultural resources intensive(pedestrian) inventory was conducted <br /> between the 9'b and I I"of August 2019. Results of the inventory include the newly <br /> recording of six prehistoric resources (two sites and four isolates). Site 5MF8727 is an open <br /> camp containing the possibility of subsurface depth of cultural fill (radiocarbon dating <br /> potential) and as such is field evaluated as eligible and should be avoided. The remaining <br /> site, 5MF8728, and isolates, 5MF8729-5MF8732, are field evaluated as not eligible and no <br /> further work is recommended. <br /> ii <br />