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• were also taken. Field notes and photo negatives aze on file at Grand River Institute, while <br />the photographs are submitted to the BLM and OAHP. Artifacts were collected (two <br />projectile point fragments) and will be curated at the Museum of Western Colorado, a BLM <br />curation facility in Grand Junction. <br />Study Findings <br />This portion of the report describes the findings and presents a discussion of site <br />significance evaluation. The field conditions were poor. Dense vegetation and steep slopes <br />made the survey difficult, but as expected cultural resources were encountered. Sites <br />SDT700 and SDT868 were revisited. The former, which had been classified as a rockshelter <br />suspected of containing cultural deposits, was determined to be a non-site, Prehistoric <br />campsite SDT868 was found to be larger than previously recorded and was field re-evaluated <br />as need data. The field inspection of the remaining lease area identified and newly recorded <br />three prehistoric sites (SDT1282, SDT1283, and SDT1285), one historic site (SDT1284), and <br />three isolated finds (SDT1286, SDT1287, and SDT1288). <br />Site Sigrrrificance <br />• The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA) duects federal agencies to <br />ensure that federally-initiated or authorized actions do not inadvertently disturb or destroy <br />significant cultural resource values. Significance is a quality of cultural resource properties <br />that qualifies them for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The <br />statements of significance included in this report are field assessments to support <br />recommendations to the OSM and State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO). The fatal <br />determination of site significance is made by the OSM in consultation with the SHPO and the <br />Keeper of the Register. <br />The Code of Federal Regulations was used as a guide for the in-field site evaluations. <br />Titles 36 CFR 50, 36 CFR 800, and 36 CFR 64 are concerned with the concepts of <br />significance and (possible) historic value of cultural resources. Titles 36 CFR 65 and 36 CFR <br />66 provide standards for the conduct of significant and scientific data recovery activities. <br />Finally, Title 36 CFR 60.6 establishes the measure of significance that is critical to the <br />determination of a site's NRHP eligibility, which is used to assess a site's research potential: <br />The quality of significance in American history, architecture, archaeology, and <br />culture is present in districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects of State and <br />local importance that possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, <br />workmanship, feeling, and association, and a) that are associated with events <br />that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of history; or b) <br />that are associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; or c) that <br />• embody the distinctive characteristics of atype, period, or method of <br />4 <br />