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- -- - ~- <br /> INTRODUCTION <br /> On September 12, 13, and 14, 1983 a cultural resource inventory was <br /> performed by Nickens and Associates, Montrose, Colorado, at the request <br /> of Gibbs and Hill, Inc., Denver, Colorado. The area investigated <br />' concerned only federal (Bureau of Land Management) proposed lease area <br />~ land (F.ig. 1). Specified future activities to occur in the surveyed <br /> areas include access haul roads, pipeline routes, a dam, a refuse <br /> disposal site, and buffer zones. According to Environmental Scie~lces <br />Division representatives, the exact locations of disturbance have been <br /> only tentatively identified. An intensive pedestrian inventory was <br /> performed over the entire area excepting a portion presently designated <br /> as a refuse disposal area which was inventoried in July, 1983. A <br />' cultural resource inventory of the project area was required by the <br />I following legislation: 1) The Antiquities Act, 1906; 2) The Historic <br /> Sites Act, 1935; 3) The Historic Preservation Act, 1966; as amended in <br />1976; 4) The National Environmental Policy Act, 1969; 5) The Federal <br /> Land Policy and Management Act, 1976; 6) Executive Order 11593; and 7) <br />_ The Archaeological and Historic Data Preservation Act, 1976. <br />DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT AREA <br />Location <br />The proposed lease area is located in the Bureau of Land <br />Management's (BLM) Glenwood Springs Resource Area between New Castle and <br />Glenwood Springs, Colorado, with its northernmost boundary approximately <br />121 m south of the Colorado River and its southernmost boundary <br />approximately 1646 m south of the river (Fig. 2). Its legal locations <br />are as follows: <br />Township 5S Range 90W <br />Section 35, S§ SE# <br />E1 SE; SW~ <br />Township 6S Range 9041 <br />Section 5, NE; NW; <br />NE; <br />Section 4, NW; <br />W; NE; <br />N§ SW; <br />N4J; SE; <br />Within this area a large portion of the proposed lease area, <br />roughly oblong in configuration (indicated on Fig. 1) had been recently <br />surveyed. The present survey concerned approximately 335 acres <br />bordering it plus additional acreage in the former survey area, where <br />one new site was located, as requested by Mr. Jeff Pecka of Gibbs and <br />Hill, Inc. in the field when survey boundaries were identified by him. <br />Environment <br />The project area is situated between the White River Plateau and <br />=1 the Grand Hogback, and contains shale which has readily eroded leaving <br /> <br />