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<br />Introduction <br />Section 2.04.4 <br />Guttural and Historic Resources Information <br />Western Fuels Colorado, A Limited Liability Company (WFC) is renewing Permit No. C-81-008. <br />W FC's New Horizon 1 & 2 Mine is the old Peabody Coal Company Nucla & Nucla East Mine which <br />operated under the same permit. Peabody pertormed cultural resources studies at the New <br />Horizon 1 & 2 mine areas (formerly called the Nucla and Nucla East mine areas respectively). <br />WFC herein encloses only that portion of the cultural and historic information study that pertains <br />to the New Horizon 2 mine area. Attachment 2.04.4-1 (formerly Peabody Addendum 5-A-1) gives <br />more information on the original Nickens and Associates work at New Horizon Mine. <br />Cultural resource investigations were conducted by Westem Cultural Resource Management, Inc. <br />(WCRM, Inc.) in 1979 for inclusion in a permit application submitted in April 1980 and approved in <br />May 1983 as Permit No. C-008-81. These investigations were for the New Horizon 1 mine area. <br />In March of 1986, Nickens and Associates conducted cultural resource investigations for additional <br />sites at the New Horizon 1 mine area. In March of 1986 and 1988, Nickens and Associates <br />• conducted cultural resource investigations for areas encompassing the New Horizon 2 mine area. <br />These are shown as Tracts I and II on Figure 2.04.4-1. These are shown as Tracts I and II on <br />Figure 1. <br />As part of its ongoing coal mining operations at the New Horizon Mine, (then called the Nucla Mine) <br />located in the western part of Montrose County, Colorado, Peabody Coal Company contracted with <br />Nickens and Associates to provide field inspections of two future mining areas, designated as <br />Tracts IIA and III, and six drill site areas (shown as Tracts IIA and III on Figure 2.04.4-2) to <br />ascertain whether or not significant historic or prehistoric cultural resource properties may be <br />adversely affected by proposed mining activities. As shown in Figure 2.04.4-2, the survey areas <br />occur west and northwest of the town of Nucla, and are adjacent to a tract (No. II) previously <br />surveyed by Nickens and Associates (fucker 1986). <br />Nickens & associates: Summary and Conclusions on Tracts t & II <br />An intensive cultural resources inventory was conducted in two study tracts near the town of Nuda, <br />in western Montrose County. Together, these two areas total about 546 acres: 116 acres in Tract <br />I and 430 acres in Tract II. About 60 percent of Tract I is relatively undisturbed, and these areas <br />were completely inspected on foot. The remaining acreage in Tract I consists of reclaimed mine <br />• (Revised July 2006) <br />2.04.4 <br />