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• SECTION 2.04.4 <br />CULTURAL AND HISTORIC RESOURCES INFORMATION <br />Introduction <br />Western Fuels Colorado, A Limited Liability Company (WFC) is renewing Permit No. C-81-008. WFC's <br />New Horizon 1 & 2 Mine is the old Peabody Coal Company Nucla & Nucla East Mine which operated <br />under the same permit. Peabody performed cultural resources studies at the New Horizon 1 & 2 mine <br />areas (formerly called the Nucla and Nucla East mine areas respectively). WFC herein encloses only <br />that portion of the cultural and historic information study that pertains to the New Horizon 2 mine area. <br />WFC refers the reader to the original Peabody permit application: Volume A. When a reference is <br />made to data sources in the Peabody documents, the word "Peabody" will immediately precede the <br />reference. <br />Cultural resource investigations were conducted by Western Cultural Resource Management, Inc. <br />(WCRM, Inc.) in 1979 for inclusion in a permit application submitted in April 1980 and approved in May <br />1983 as Permit No. C-008-81. These investigations were for the New Horizon 1 mine area. In March <br />of 1986, Nickens and Associates conducted cultural resource investigations for additional sites at the <br />New Horizon 1 mine area. In March of 1986 and 1988, Nickens and Associates conducted cultural <br />• resource investigations for areas encompassing the New Horizon 2 mine area. These are shown as <br />Tracts I and II on Figure 2.04.4-1. These are shown as Tracts I and II on 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 with <br />Nickens 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 Tracts IIA and III on Figure 2.04.4-2) to ascertain whether <br />or not significant historic or prehistoric cultural resource properties may be adversely affected by <br />proposed mining activities. As shown in Figure 2.04.4-2, the survey areas occur west and northwest <br />of the town of Nucla, and are adjacent to a tract (No. II) previously surveyed by Nickens and <br />Associates (Tucker 1986). <br />Nickens 8 Associates: Summary and Conclusions on Tracts 18 II <br />An intensive cultural resources inventory was conducted in two study tracts near the town of Nucla, <br />in western Montrose County. Together, these two areas total about 546 acres: 116 acres in Tract I <br />and 430 acres in Tract II. About 60 percent of Tract I is relatively undisturbed, and these areas were <br />completely inspected on foot. The remaining acreage in Tract I consists of reclaimed mine <br />• (REVISED 8-28-95) 2.04.4 - 1 <br />