PERMFILE53376

• Permit No: C1981019
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/11/2001
• Doc Name: Sections 4 cont & Section 5
• Section_Exhibit Name: EXHIBIT 05 Archaelogical Part 3
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Architecture as well as regulations 36CFR60, 36CFR66, and 36CFR64. The
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation guidelines for compliance with
the National Historic Preservation Act are set forth in 36CFR800. More
specific to Colorado are the Colorado BLM "Report Requirements for Pro-
fessional Services Antiquity Permits (1981)."
The proposed roject area consists of two railroad spurs and the
coal mine itself Figure 1.1), including the mining facilities and
stockpile location. Rail Spur No. 1 originates at Wilson Creek (Town-
ship 3 North, Range 93 West, Section 7) on the northwestern corner of
the proposed project area. It terminates approximately 8.9 km (5.5 mi.)
north of the existing Axial Rail Spur currently used by the Colowyo Coal
Company (Township 4 North, Range 93 West, Section 15). Rail Spur No. 2
originates near Good Spring Creek at the northeast corner of the project
area (Township 3 North, Range 93 West, Section 11) and terminates
approximately 12.9 km (8 mi.) north at the base of Ile's Mountain (Town-
ship 5 North, Range 93 West, Section 30).
Class I and Class III inventories were required for Rail Spur No. 1
and the coal mine. Only a Class I inventory was needed for Rail Spur
No. 2 since Consol does not plan to construct a rail line at this time.
The terms Class I and Class III, along with Class II, refer to levels of
survey effort. The BLht Manual Chapter 8100 defines Class I as.existing
data inventory, Class II as a sampling field inventory, and Class III as
an intensive (100`.6) inventory.
• Land ovmership of the project area is federal (Bureau of Land Man-
agement administered), state and private. Authority to conduct cultural
resources investigations in the project area was granted by Federal
Antiquities Permit No. 84-CO-066 and Colorado State Permit No. 84-16
held by NA. In addition, permission and cooperation from the private
landowners was arranged by Consol so that the baseline data studies
could be completed on their lands. Table 1.1 lists land ownership data
for the project area.
1.2 Potential for Affecting Cultural Resources
The propcsed coal mine activities will involve extensive land
disturbance (see Section 1.1). Construction of the rail spur, though
less areally extensive and destructive than the coal mine, will never-
theless result in consequential disturbance to the land surface within
its corridor. As surface or shallowly buried phenomena, any cultural
resources located within these project areas will be adversely affected
by project activities. From archival information it is known that cul-
tural resources do exist in the project localities. These include his-
toric homesteads as well as prehistoric artifact scatters (see Section
4.1 below). Given this known information, it was expected that addi-
tional, unrecorded cultural resources would occur in the project areas.
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recorded), (2) document (record, map, and photograph) them completely,
(3) evaluate their significance within a regional context, and (4)
formulate appropriate recommendations to mitigate adverse impacts.
The major objectives of these investi 9ations were to (1) locate all
ral resources in the ro'ect areas (includin those reviousl