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2023 Cultural Resource Site Assessments for Collom Expansion Project Colowyo <br /> <br />Project Title: Cultural Resource Site Assessments in 2023 for Colowyo Coal <br />Company’s Collom Project, Moffat County, Colorado <br />Report Date: June 2023 <br />Agency(-ies): Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety (DRMS); <br />Colorado Office of Archaeological and Historic Preservation (OAHP) <br />Colorado SHPO <br />Report No.: <br /> Review and <br />Compliance No.: <br /> <br />Tetra Tech No.: 117-8108007 <br />Description: In 2023 Colowyo Coal Company (Colowyo) requested that Tetra Tech <br />conduct the third round of cultural resource site condition assessments <br />for 15 previously recorded National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) <br />eligible or “Needs Data” sites. The sites were initially revisited in 2015 <br />(Karpinski and Dugmore 2015) before any mine development or <br />extraction activities or construction took place. In 2019, Tetra Tech <br />conducted the second round of site assessments and found no <br />significant changes to the cultural resource sites (Karpinski et al. <br />2019). <br />The sites are located on privately owned land encompassed by the <br />Colowyo’s Collom permit boundary in Moffat County, Colorado. The <br />sites have been avoided by Colowyo during all planned mining and <br />construction activities that took place in 2017 and 2018; however, <br />Colorado OAHP through DRMS is requiring regular condition <br />assessments of each site. Assessments are to be repeated at four- <br />year intervals for a minimum of 12 years. The assessments are to <br />ensure that the sites are being sufficiently avoided by Colowyo and <br />document any unintentional impacts to a site because of mining <br />activity. <br />Location: Assessed sites are located within Sections 1, 13, and 14 of T3N, <br />R94W; Sections 7, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, and 28 of T4N, R93W; and <br />Sections 13, 23, 24, 25, and 34 of T4N, R94W, 6th Principal Meridian, <br />(7.5ʹ USGS quadrangle; Axial, Colorado (1966), Easton Gulch, <br />Colorado (1966), and Devil’s Hole Gulch, Colorado (1972)). <br />Landownership: Private <br />File Search Date May 12, 2023 Field Work Date(s) May 16 and 17, 2023 <br />Results Revisited Sites 15 Isolated Resources 0 <br />Eligible Sites 5MF.4008 – Historic Homestead and Prehistoric Lithic Scatter <br />5MF.6128 – Historic Homestead and Artifact Scatter <br />“Needs Data” Sites 5MF.969 – Prehistoric Artifact Scatter