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<br />LJ <br />` introduction <br />~__ <br />At the request of Bowie Resources, Ltd. (as represented by J.E. Stover and <br />~ Associates), and the Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology and Office of Surface <br />Mining, a cultural resource inventory ofapproximalely 330 acres within the Bowie #_' Minc <br />impact area was conducted by Carl E. Conner and Barbara 1. Davenport of Grand River <br />i Institute. Field work was performed during the third and fourth weeks of September 199. <br />~t At that time 1 15 acres were intensively (Class I(I) inspected, and 715 acres were intuitively <br />(Class II) satnplcd. Those areas intensively inspected are to be directly affected by <br />construction for the proposed new road, mine portal complex, stock pile, and load-out <br />facility. Areas intuitively sampled are unlikely to suffer direct affects. <br />i This project was completed to meet requirements of Article 30.1, Colorado Revised <br />• Statutes. Also, I'or federally funded or licensed projects, such studies are done to meet <br />requirements of the American Antiquities Act of 1906 (16 U.S.C. 432, =433), the Historic <br />I, Sites Act of 1935 (16 U.S.C. 461), the National listoric Preservation Act (NI-IPA) of 1966 <br />(16 U.S.C. 470, as amended), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 (42 <br />U.S.C. 4321), Executive Order 11593 (36 F.R. 3921), the Historical and Archaeological <br />Data-Preservation Act (AHPA) of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 469), the Federal Land Policy and <br />Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), and the Archaeological Resources Protection <br />Act of 1979 (16 U.S.C. 470aa ct sea., as amended). <br />i. <br />These laws are concerned with the idenliJiartiun, evuhrcrtiar, and praleclion of <br />fragile, non-renewable evidences of human activity, occupation and endeavor reFlected in <br />districts, sites, structures, artifacts, objects, ruins, works of art, architecture, and natural <br />features that were of importance in human events. Such resources tend to be localized and <br />highly sensitive to disturbance. Executive Order I LiJ3 and the rVF/PA stipulate that (crnyJ <br />/cords subject to actions funded licensed, ar executed by the Federul government nursr first <br />he inrenlor•ied far prelris7a•ic and hista'ic resources and that signifrcmv properties• must he <br />nnmorated to the National Regi.rler of Historic Places (NRIfP). NEPfI dictates• that such <br />findings he inrhulerl in nn enriramrrentul assessnrenl or rrn environmenlcrl impact s/crtement. <br />Gr ndrlilion, Section 106 of Ilre rVHP.~I nrcrndalcs Ihut all.cile.r, slradures', and objects <br />spec•ificd us eligible far lisrins,~ in !!re rVRHP be reviewed by the Prea•ident's Advisory Cormcil <br />on His'raric Preservution prior ro Federal funding aju prnjec! that nury dumrrge or dertruy <br />such cul7ural resources. lJ'signifrcunt crrchaealugic•u! properties ore r%rreatened by <br />disturbance ar dera•rrcliun, ({re a/IP.~1 allows for llre recavery of important archaeological <br />dale. <br />Accordingly, the purposes of the inventory were to conduct an intensive <br />archaeological survey of areas potentially subject to direct impact from road, mine and <br />storage areas; to intuitively sample areas that may suffer secondary impacts; to identify and <br />. accurately locate archaeological sites and/or districts and isolated finds; to evaluate these <br />