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Page 1 of 3 COLORADO CULTURAL RESOURCE SURVEY OAHP1405 Cultural Resource Re-Visitation Form Rev. 11/10 A Re-Visitation Form can only be used when a Management Data Form and component forms have been previously filed with the land managing agency and/or the Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation and no substantive changes to the character of the site are required as a result of the current re- visitation. Please use the Management Data Form and supporting forms (archaeological component, linear, vandalism, etc.) when changes are required to: • Site type • Linear resources • Additional artifact assemblages and/or features • Boundary size • Vandalism • NRHP recommendations Official determination (OAHP use only) Determined Eligible NR\SR Determined Not Eligible NR\SR Nominated Need Data NR\SR Contributing to NR Dist.\SR Dist. Not Contributing to NR Dist.\SR Dist. Supports overall linear eligibility NR\SR Does not support overall linear eligibility NR\SR 1. Resource Number: 5MF.969 2. Temporary Resource Number: 3. Resource Name: 4. Project Name/Number: Collom Mine Expansion Site Assessment 117-8108007 5. Government Involvement: Local State Federal Agency: DRMS 6. Site Categories: (Check as many as apply) Prehistoric: Archaeological site Paleontological site In existing National Register District? Yes No Name: Local Landmark? Yes No Name: Historic: Archaeological site Building (s) Structure(s) Object(s) In existing National Register District? Yes No Name: Local Landmark? Yes No Name: 7. Owner(s) Name and Address: Colowyo Coal Company, 5731 Highway 13, Meeker, Colorado 81641 8. Was the site relocated? Yes No If no, why? (100% collected in previous recording, ground disturbance, etc.) Erosion obscured artifacts, and no datum was relocated. 9. Previous recordings: The site was first recorded in 1980 by the BLM for a Class II sampling survey for Utah International coal lease. It was revisited in 1981 by the BLM; in 1983 by the BLM and Mariah Associates Inc. for a Class III survey for the Utah International coal lease; in 1995 by the BLM and Metcalf Archaeological Consultants for the Colowyo Coal Company Lease and Exploration Areas: Class III Cultural Resource Inventory project; in 2005 by TRC for the Collom Mine Expansion Class III Inventory project; and in 2015 and 2019 by Tetra Tech for the Collom Mine Expansion Site Assessment project. 10. Most recent National Register Eligibility Assessment: Eligible Not Eligible Need Data Explain: Site 5MF.969 was first recommended as needing additional data to be eligible for the NRHP in 1980. The BLM posited that the site is one of the first well documented Paleoindian sites in the region and possesses the ability to further contribute to the body of data regarding subsistence strategies in northwest Colorado. In 1983, Mariah Associates Inc. tested the site by mechanical soil auger and failed to yield any positive results of additional buried cultural material. However, the site remained potentially eligible and further testing was recommended to determine the extent of any potentially eligible subsurface material. In 1995, Metcalf Archaeological Consultants located a small grey quartzite interior waste flake along the edge of the arroyo downstream from where the bison was butchered. In 2005 TRC noted no change to the overall site condition and concurred with the NRHP recommendation. No significant changes to the overall site condition were observed during the 2015, 2019, and 2023 revisits. Tetra Tech concurs with the recommendation that additional data collection needs to occur prior to formal NRHP eligibility determination. The site should continue to be avoided pending additional subsurface testing to determine whether unobserved subsurface cultural material is indeed present at the site.