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• COLORADO HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Colorado Heritage Cenecr 1300 Broadway Denver, Colorado 80203 March 4, 1980 t ' . n ~. Alan Salter General Manager King final Mine 4424 County Road 120 Hesperus, CO 81326 Dear Mr. Salter: This office received your correspondence of February 21, 1980, requesting a 1) statement for. the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board concerning the cultural-historical impact of the King Coal Mine operation, as. well as 2) information for the proposed federal lease. 31 '_ .We conducted a file search of the Colorado rchaeological Site Inventory and the Colorado Inventory of liistor'c Sites, as well as nominations pending or on the National Regist r of Historic Places, for Township 35N, Range 11W, and Sections 2 and 32, which would in- elude the boundaries for the mine bench, -he current federal coal lease, and the application for coal lease. There are no known Archaeological or Historical/Architectural resources in the impact area of the proposed undertaking. Based on the informatio supplied in your correspondence, it appears that there would o nodfurther impact to cultural resources due to the seriously disturUed nature of the terrain in the 8.36 acres of the mine-bench area. However, despite the fact that there will be no surface disturb- ances in the proposed coal lease area, these mining o,peratioiis will possibly create an indirect impact on potentially eligible cultural resources due to the potential for vandalism on cultural resources. There is always the possibility that unidentified Cultural Resources exist within this area. Therefore, a professional survey should be conducted Co IdentiE}c any Eligible Cultural Resources in the proposed project area. AS you know, the ultimate responsibility for compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as implemented in 36 CFR 800, remains with the federal agency and cannot be delegated by it. The November 1993