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Section 779.12 (b) Continued. • The mine plan area was not the location of events important to the course of local, state or national history. No early-history transportation routes crossed the permit area. None of the sites have been associated with people important in local, state or national history. None of the homesteaders were important in local, state or national history. None of the surviving physical remains have any characteristics that would make them either more representative or more distinctive than many other homestead sites in the surrounding country that are not adjacent to mining develop- ments. In addition, there is nothing historic about the. mine plan area. Sites of past residence are merely old. Destruction of the two sites delineated earlier would not constitute an impact on the significant historical resources of the region as indicated above by the BLM Environmental Assessment Report issued in January, 1979. • With respect to archaeological resources, the mine plan area was surveyed for archaeological values in part by the Laboratory of Public Archaeological (D r. Calvin Jennings of Colorado State University) in Archaeological Reconnaissance of Proposed Coal Lease Areas in Ptoffat. Rio Blanco. and Routt Counties. Colorado and in part by four BLM archaeologists. The area was surveyed as accurately as possible but the heavy vegetative cover prevented a 100% survey. The BLM Environmental Assessment Report, dated January 18, 1979, states on page 75: "The area was not 100% surveyed due to heavy vegetative ground cover. The area will not be 100% surveyed prior to approval of mining because the heavy vegetative cover prevents viewing the ground for cultural resources." The archaeologists from the BLM discovered only isolated minor finds which were not eligible for nomination to the National Register. • Three sites were found in Section 13, Tocroship 4 North, Range 87 West; one is a lithic scatter and the other sites involve the 779-6