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I • SECTION 2.04.4 <br />CULTURAL AND HISTORIC RESOURCES INFORMATION <br />Introduction <br />Westem Fuels Colorado, A Limited Liability Company (WFC) is renewing Permit No. G81-008. <br />WFC's New Horizon 1 & 2 Mine is the old Peabody Coal Company Nucla &Nuda East Mine which <br />operated under the same permit. Peabody performed cultural resources studies at the New Horizon <br />1 & 2 mine areas (formerly called the Nucla and Nucla East mine areas respectively). WFC herein <br />encloses only that portion of the cultural and historic inforiation study that pertains to the New <br />Horizon 2 mine area. WFC refers the reader to the original Peabody permit application: Volume A <br />When a reference is made to data sources in the Peabody documents, the word "Peabody" will <br />immediately precede the reference. <br />Cultural resource investigations were conducted by Western Cultural Resource Management, Inc. <br />• (WORM, Inc.) in 1979 for inclusion in a permit application submitted in April 1980 and approved in <br />May 1983 as Permit No. G008-81. These investigations were for the New Horizon 1 mine area. <br />In March of 1986, Nickens and Associates conducted cultural resource investigations for additional <br />sites at the New Horizon 1 mine area. In March of 1986 and 1988, Nickens and Associates <br />conducted cultural resource investigations for areas encompassing the New Horizon 2 mine area. <br />These are shown as Trails I and II on Figure 2.04.41. These are shown as Tracts I and II on <br />Figure 1, <br />As part of its ongoing coal mining operations at the New Horizon Mine, (then called the Nucla Mine) <br />located in the western part of Montrose County, Colorado, Peabody Coal Company contracted v~ith <br />Nidcens and Associates to provide field inspections of two future mining areas, designated as Tracts <br />IIA and III, and six drill site areas (shown as Trails IIA and III on Figure 2.04.4-2) to ascertain <br />whether or not significant historic or prehistoric cultural resource properties may be adversely <br />affected by proposed mining activities. As shown in Figure 2.04.42, the survey areas occur vilest <br />and northv~.st of the town of Nuda, and are adjacent to a tract (No. II) previously surveyed by <br />Nid<ens and Associates (Tucker 1986). <br />(REVISED &2&95) 2.04.4 - 1 <br />