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The following section of the report provides: 1) a concise definition of site <br /> significance, 2) descriptions of the newly recorded sites and their evaluations, and 3) <br /> management recommendations. <br /> Site Significance <br /> The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA) directs federal agencies to <br /> ensure that federally-initiated or authorized actions do not inadvertently disturb or destroy <br /> significant cultural resource values. Significance is a quality of cultural resource properties <br /> that qualifies them for inclusion in the NRHP. The statements of significance included in this <br /> report are field assessments to support recommendations to the State Solid Minerals <br /> Department and the State Historic Preservation Officer(SHPO). The final determination of <br /> site significance is made by the controlling agencies in consultation with the SHPO and the <br /> Keeper of the Register. The eligibility determination and consultation process is guided by <br /> Section 106 of the NHPA (36 CFR 60, 63, and 800). Inventory to identify, evaluate, and <br /> mitigate potential effects to cultural resources affected by an undertaking is the first step in the <br /> Section 106 process. Title 36 CFR 60.4 establishes the measure of significance that is critical <br /> to the determination of a site's NRHP eligibility, which is used to assess a site's research <br /> potential: <br /> The quality of significance in American history, architecture, archaeologm% and culture <br /> is present in districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects of State and local <br /> importance thatpossess integrity of7ocation, design, setting, inaterials, workinanship, <br /> feeling, and association, and a) that are associated ivith events that have made a <br /> significant contribution to the broad patterns of history; or b) that are associated with <br /> the lives of persons significant in Our past; or c) that einbody the distinctive <br /> characteristics of a tipe,period, or niethod of construction, or that represent the work <br /> of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or that represent a significant and <br /> distinguishable entity whose coinponents may lack individual distinction; or d) that <br /> have yielded, or may be likely to yield, infor inatioil lniportant n1 prehistoi_v or history. <br /> A moderate approach was used in making the site significance evaluation. This <br /> approach reflects a restraint in the interpretation of the evaluative criteria while not allowing <br /> common pitfalls to occur. Any archaeological resource is potentially eligible if one can <br /> legitimately argue that it is likely to be associated with a cultural pattern, process, or activity <br /> important to the history or prehistory of its locality, the United States, or humanity as a whole, <br /> provided its study can contribute to an understanding of that pattern,process, or activity. <br /> Pitfalls occur when sites are judged significant by their size, complexity, and age; that is, those <br /> that are large, multi-component, older sites are considered more significant than the small <br /> single component variety. <br /> Site Descriptions <br /> Site 5MF8727, a prehistoric open camp, is located at an elevation of 5880 feet. <br /> 6 <br />