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<br />In compliance with stipulations of the Department of the Interior, <br />OSM, and the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division, the Pittsburg and <br />• Midway Coal Mining Company, Northern Division, Frontier, Wyoming, has <br />requested Grand River Institute to conduct an investigation of ~lltural <br />resources within } mile of areas of the Edna Mine to be blasted in con- <br />nection with proposed strip mining activity. Because the Institute had <br />already surveyed portions (approximately 40ye) of the required buffer zone, <br />it was asked to evaluate the possible effects of the proposed blasting on <br />cultural resources within that zone as a fulfillment of the special stip- <br />ulations. <br />In the Fall of 1979, the Institute conducted a cultural resources <br />inventory in the Edna Mine Area as part of the Oak Creek Expansion Prc- <br />~ect (Grand River Institute 1980). Specific areas surveyed included: <br />The Moffat Area in portions of T.SN., R.85W., Sections 30 and 31 and <br />acreage west of Center Ridge located in T.4N., R.85W., Section 24 W}, <br />both to be surface mined, and lands along the west side of Trout Creek in <br />T.SN., R.86W., Section 36 and T.4N., R.86W., Sections 12, 13, and 14 and <br />C a block of land west of the Wolf Creek Area and east of Trout Creek in <br />• T.SN., R.86W., Section 19, both lying within the }-mile buffer zone. No <br />other lands within the }_mile buffer zone were subjected to either a <br />reconnaissance or an intensive cultural resources inventory. <br />Six sites were identified within the }-mile buffer zone by the 1979 <br />survey, SRT147-152. All but SRT152 are prehistoric campsites as indicated <br />by lithic artifacts scattered about the surface; site SRT152 is an his- . <br />toric farmstead presently occupied. Field assessment determined sites <br />SRT150 and 5RT151 eligible, sites SRT147 and SRT148 potentially eligible, <br />and sites SRT149 and SRT152 ineligible to the National Register of His- <br />toric Places. <br />Based on the Institute's 1979 study and two others conducted by the <br />Laboratory of Public Archaeology (Arthur and Jennings 1977, and McNamara <br />and Jennings 1978), prehistoric sites in the area of the Edna Mine appear <br />to be open campsites, manifested as lithic scatters but containing no <br />• <br />