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z <br />r LOCATION/DESCRIPTION <br />• The loadout facility will be approximately two miles northwest <br />of Carbondale, southwest of Colorado State Highway 62 in sections <br />20 and 29, T75, RBSW, Garfield County, Colorado. The project area <br />will include a train track loop about one mile in length (enclosing <br />about BO acres), a conveyor belt, a truck turn-around/dumping area <br />of about ten acres and approximately two miles of new and existing <br />access road. <br />FIELD METHODS <br />The staked portion of the new access road was surveyed by <br />walking two parallel transects approximately 30 feet apart on <br />either side of the flagged centerline, creating a 200 foot right-of- <br />way. <br />The truck dumping area was resurveyed by a series of parallel <br />transects, also employing 30 foot transects. Additionally, drainage <br />cuts, anthills and rodent backdirt piles were inspected. <br />The conveyor belt corridor south of the river on the flood <br />plain was resurveyed by means of four parallel northeast/southwest <br />transects approximately 25 feet apart, creating a 100 foot right- <br />of-way. The steep slope dropping from the mesa edge was not resur- <br />veyed as visibility/survey coverage were considered to be adequate <br />in this portion of the project area during the original survey. <br />Systematic monitoring of construction activities in the train <br />track area (north of the river), as originally recommended, proved <br />to be impossible as extensive construction had already been effected. <br />The investigators randomly inspected blade cuts and backdirt <br />deposits for cultural materials in this area. <br />The archaeological site located during the original survey was <br />relocated, recorded, mapped, collected, photographed and shovel <br />tested. Shovel testing consisted of digging two pits, each <br />measuring 60 cm in diameter. Test Pit #1 was excavated to a depth <br />of 40 cm. Test Pit #2 extended to a depth of 25 cm. <br />An isolated artifact in the truck dumping area was also <br />recorded, collected and photographed. <br />RESULTS <br />Survey procedures relocated the site observed during the <br />original survey. The site is a very sparse lithic scatter situated <br />on a small rise among pinyon pine trees at the edge of the mesa <br />overlooking the river. Based upon the two diagnostic artifacts <br />collected during the original survey, the site appears to be of <br />Late Archaic cultural affiliation. During the present reinspection, <br />only two additional artifacts (a scraper and a flake) were observed. <br />The shovel tests revealed no subsurface cultural materials. <br /> <br />