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• Colorado Cultural Resource Survey Site or Property Reevaluation Form X site sketch map X U.S.G.S, map photocopy X other orojectile ooint illustration other Attachments: (check as many as apply) photographs Official Determination (OAHP use only) Determined Eligible Determined Not Eligible _ Need Data _ Nominated Listed Contributing to N.R. Dist. _ Nat Contributing to N.R. Dist. This form should be used to update information on a previously recorded site/ property. Photographs are required for all structures. A photocopy of the USGS quad. map showing site location is required for all archaeological sites with updated locational information. A revised site sketch map is necessary if the site boundaries or components have greatly changed. If the original form is incomplete or otherwise inadequate please submit a new set of site forms, 1. State No. 5RT870 2. Site/Property Name 3. Purpose of this current site visit (check as many as apply) site is within a current project area resurvey _ update of previous site form(s) _ surface collection • testing to determine eligibility _ excavation X other (specify): located site to determine whether in impact area of proposed Yoast Mine. describe See 5) below. 4. Previous recordings - name(s), organization(s), date(s) L. Travis, J. Scott, S. Cochran, Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, Inc, 17 August I992 Travis, Lauri 1994 Peabody Coal Company's Yoast Mine Expansion Area, Class III Cultural Resource Inventory, Routt County, Colorado. Edited by Carl SpAth. Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, Inc. Eagle, Colorado. On fi]e, Bureau of Land Management, Little Snake Resource Area, Craig, Colorado. 5. Changes or additions to the previous site/property description(s) This site was recorded as a sparse open lithic scatter consisting of 17 pieces of debitage and a projectile point/knife fragment (Travis 1994). Current investigations confirm the sparse nature of the artifact scatter. The site is located near the base of a slope just above the floodplain. A prepared field is above the site and this field is connected to the floodplain pasture by a strip which was cleared of brush and plowed just east of the site (Figure 5). A large wooden gate is lying on the surface in front of the plowed strip south of the two- track. Based on the projectile point/knife fragment collected in 1992, the site may • date to the Middle Archaic. The site was initially plotted on the edge of the proposed impact area near the proposed haul road and the BLM requested that the location be confirmed. The initial plot appears to have been incorrect and the current investigations have determined that the site is definitely out of the proposed impact area. Although the site datum was found lying on the south side of the two-track, the site was