2023-07-14_PERMIT FILE - C1981010 ‎(20)‎

• Permit No: C1981010
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 7/14/2023
• Doc Name: Class III Cultural Resources Inventory for Two Tract areas‎(total 76.5 acres)‎ in Moffat County
• Section_Exhibit Name: Appendix K Part K-XXI
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

1.0 INTRODUCTION
At the request of Trapper Mining, Inc., Grand River Institute (GRI) conducted a
Class III cultural resources inventory for two proposed mining tract areas (total 76.5 acres).
Area 1 is located on State (23 acres) and private (20 acres) lands, while Area 2 is solely on
State (33.5 acres) lands in Moffat County, Colorado. The inventory was conducted by Carl
E. Conner, Principal Investigator and Field Supervisor, under State of Colorado
Archaeological Permit No. 81366. Conner was assisted by Natalia Conner and Barbara
Davenport.
The inventory was undertaken to ensure the project's compliance with Federal and
State legislation governing the identification and protection of cultural resources. The
purposes of this investigation were to identify cultural resources within the areas likely to be
affected by lease modification, to evaluate these sites' eligibility for listing in the National
Register of Historic Places (NRHP), and to make management recommendations for those
determined to be eligible or potentially eligible.
For federally funded or licensed projects, such studies are done to meet requirements
of Section 106 (54 U.S.C. § 306108) of the National Historic Preservation Act (54 U.S.C §
300101 et seq.), the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321),
Executive Order 11593 (36 F.R. 8921), the Historical and Archaeological Data-Preservation
Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 469), the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43
U.S.C. 1701), and the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 (16 U.S.C. 470aa et
seq., as amended). These laws are concerned with the identification, evaluation, and
protection of fragile, non-renewable evidence of human activity, occupation, and endeavor
reflected in districts, sites, structures, artifacts, objects, ruins, works of art, architecture, and
natural features that were of importance in human events. Such resources tend to be
localized and highly sensitive to disturbance.
2.0 LOCATION OF PROJECT AREA
The project areas are located approximately five miles southwest of the town of
Craig, in Moffat County, Colorado. Area 1 occurs in the center of the W½ Sec. 27, and
Area 2 is divided between the S½ SW¼ of Sec 28, the N½NW¼ of Sec 33, and the
N½NE¼ of Sec 32, T. 6 N., R. 91 W.; 6th PM (Figure 1).
3.0 ENVIRONMENT
This section is subdivided into summaries of the geology, physiography, soils, biota,
and climate. It also provides a discussion of how the environment may have affected
prehistoric and historic occupation of the area.
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