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Site Significance <br />The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA) directs federal agencies to <br />ensure that federally-initiated or authorized actions do not inadvertently disturb or destroy <br />significant cultural resource values. Significance is a quality of cultural resource properties <br />that qualifies them for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places (NRIIP). The <br />statements of significance included in this report are field assessments to support <br />recommendations to the OSM and State Historic Preservation O$icer (SHPO). The final <br />determination of site significance is made by the OSM in consultation with the SHPO and the <br />Keeper of the Register. <br />The Code of Federal Regulations was used as a guide for the in-field site evaluations. <br />Titles 36 CFR 50, 36 CFR 800, and 36 CFR 64 are concerned with the concepts of <br />significance and (possible) historic value of cultural resources. Titles 36 CFR 65 and 36 CFR <br />66 provide standards for the conduct of significant and scientific data recovery activities. <br />Finally, Title 36 CFR 60.4 establishes the measure of significance that is critical to the <br />determination of a site's NRHP eligibility, which is used to assess a site's research potential: <br />The quality of significance in American history, architecture, archaeology, and <br />culture is present in districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects of State and <br />local importance that possess integrity of location, desigq setting, materials, <br />workmanship, feeling, and association, and a) that are associated with events that <br />have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of history, or h) that are <br />associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; or c) that embody the <br />distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of conshrrction, or that <br />represent the work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or that represent a <br />significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual <br />distinction; or d) that have yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important <br />in the prehistory or history. <br />Site Descriptions <br />Site SDT1326 was previously recorded by Cazl Conner and Bazbara Davenport of <br />Grand River Institute in 2000. It was described as consisting of ... <br />"...an open campsite located on the first bench above Hubbazd Creek and on <br />the south side of Dove Gulch drainage. This bench, which has an average <br />elevation of 6430 feet, is covered by oakbrush. The boundary, which roughly <br />measures SOm in diameter, is defined by the presence of seven flakes. Six of <br />the flakes, which are made of grey mudstone, are found along the Hubbazd <br />Creek mad and the seventh, a basalt flake, was found along a two track that <br />runs toward a spring area near the mouth of Dove Gulch. Deep soils are <br />present throughout the site and most of it is covered by brush, grasses and <br />9 <br />