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SURVEY OF CULTURAL RESOURCES <br />FOR NATIONAL KING Q7 AL, INC.'S PROPOSED <br />NEW MINERALS LEASE <br />- LA PLAT2i. COUNTY, COLORADO <br />A survey of archaeological and historical resources was conducted <br />for National King Coal, Inc. ~s new federal coal lease. The lease area <br />consists of the SW 1/4 (160 acres) of Section 32, Township 35 North, <br />Range 11 West, New Mexico Principal Meridian, La Plata County, <br />Colorado (attached map). The proposed lease area is privately owned <br />land with federally owned minerals under the jurisdiction of the Bureau <br />of Land Management, San Juan Resource Area. <br />Extraction of minerals by National King Coal; Inc. will be strictly <br />subterranean with no surface disturbance in the lease area with the <br />exception of the possibility of the excavation of an air shaft at some time. <br />Surface subsidence from mining activities is unlikely. <br />This work was completed in order to comply with legal provisions <br />contained in the Act for Preservation of American Antiquities of 1906 <br />(34 Stat. 225, 16, U.S.C. 431 et seq. ), the National Environmental Policy <br />ACt of 1969 {83 Stat. 852, 42, U.S.C. 431 et seq.) and Executive Order <br />11, 593. <br />ENVIRONMENTAL DESCRIPTION <br />The lease area includes rolling mesa top overlooking'Pine Gulch to <br />the south and east and the south facing canyon side of Pine Gulch. The <br />vegetation :.long the canyon side consists of pinyon pine, juniper, pon- <br />derosa pine, Gamble's oak, serviceberry, squawapple and mountain <br />mahogac~y. The vegetation on the mesa tops is primarily Gambel's <br />oak, serviceberry and squawapple with some wild rose and grasses. <br />The soil is a sandy clay loam. <br />SURVEY METHODS <br />Prior to the initiation of this sua~vey, a file search was conducted <br />through the office of the San Juan Resource Area Archaeologist. <br />On August~22, 1$80 Jamie A. ICarlson, Staff Archaeologist, Fort <br />Lewis College, wall:ed and examined the project area for surface <br /> <br />November 1993 <br />