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~ as~ ~ COLORADO HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Colorado llcrita{~r. Center 1300 Iiroariwa}~ Denvr.r. Cola ndo 6020 March 4, 19II0 Alan Salter General Manager F:i.ng Cnal Mine 4424 County Road 120 Hesperus, CO 81326 Dear Mr. Salter: This office received your correspondence of February 21, 1950, requesting a 1) statement for the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation l;oard concerning the cultural-historical impact of the King Coal Mine: operation, as well as 2) information for the proposed federal lease. We conducted a file search of the Colorado Archaeological Site • iventory and the Colorado Inventory of Historic Sites, as well as nominations pending or on the National Register of historic Places, for Township 35N, P.ange 11W, and Sections 21 and 32, which would in- clude the boundaries for the mine bench, the current federal coal lease; and the appllcaCirni for coal leas r.. There are no known Archaeological or Historical/Arcl~itecCUral resources in the impact area of the proposed undertaking. Rased on the information supplied in your correspondence, it appears that there would no no further impact to cultural resources due to the seriously disturbed nature of the terrain in the 5.36 acres of Lhe mine-bench area. However, despite the fact that there will be no surface disturb- ances in the proposed coal lease area, these mining, operations will possibly create an indirect impact on potentially eligible cultural resources due Co the potential for vandalism on cultural resources. There is always the possibi.liLy that •~rnidentified Cultural Resources er.ist within this area. Therefore, a professional survey should be conducted to Identify an}' Eligible Cultural Resources in the proposed project area. As you know, the ultimate responsibility for compliance with the •~lational ]listoric I'reservaCion Act, as implemented in 36 CFR 800, mains with the federal agency and cannot be delegated by it. The ~' .fie , s~ti`-.~