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Impact of the Project on Eligible Sites and Fiitigation of the Impacts <br />• Site SGF1147 <br />This site will be affected by the protect in the following manner: The finger <br />ridge on which the site is located will be mechanically removed to facilitate <br />construction of a coal conveyor and access road. The material removed will be <br />used for gravel and fill in adjacent project areas. <br />Ne request your concurrence that there will be No Adverse Effect to the <br />qualities which qualify this site as eligible to the National Register <br />because: <br />Methods of Scientific Data P.etrieval to be Followed <br />A. All artifacts and site surfaces will be plane table mapped, collected, <br />classified and subject to analysis. <br />e. Testing will be conducted to determine horizontal and vertical extent of <br />the cultural deposits in the shelters. If it is apparent that the site <br />will not yield significant information because the deposits are shallow <br />or disturbed, etc., fieldwork will be terminated. If the testing proves <br />positive, excavation of the site would proceed, or a new plan will be <br />submitted to avoid adverse impacts. <br />C. Excavation of the shelters would be effected by following natural and <br />cultural levels defined during testing. Records will be maintained on <br />• each unit and level. Diagnostic artifacts will be numbered sequentially <br />in the field and recorded by provenience. Features will be mapped by <br />unit with plan and profile drawings. Fill will be screened through 1/4 <br />inch mesh except for especially fine deposits for which windrow screen <br />will be used. Chipped stone, groundstone, etc. and ancillary specimens <br />(bone, seeds, shells, etc.) will be collected and numbered and recorded <br />by provenience. Profiles of unit walls will be made. <br />D. Where practicable, carbon, pollen, soil and flotation samples (and <br />possibly others e.g., obsidian hydration and molluscs samples) will be <br />obtained and analyzed. <br />E. Artifacts recovered from the site will be sorted in the laboratory <br />according to type, measured and classified as to material. Stone, bone, <br />and wood tools will receive use-wear analysis and ceramics will be <br />analyzed and typed. <br />F. A final report will be prepared and promptly submitted. <br />S <br />• ' <br />