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<br />;ti <br />w <br />.; <br />• <br />L,I,1T>=U STAT>= III IIIIIIIINIIIIII ~ 1~~~i~R <br />Bl'RSA1. __ 999 ~.!vtt;1T <br />SAN IUA,\ RESOURCE AILEA <br />7b1 Carrtitto del Rio <br />Durango. CO Sl3()1 <br />to ft~ply Reter tn• <br />5143 <br />CU (03K) <br />GER'fIFIED 'vtAII.-RETUR` RECEIPT REQ(.•ESTED ~j p~? <br />A4r. Alan Startflll - OG~ +Y ~ ~Yil <br />Advisory Council vn Historic Prrse:-v,rdou <br />lii3ri neat Bayaud Avenue, #iili <br />Lakewood. Colorado 802^(i <br />Dear Air. Stanfill: <br />RE: Grarel Alining L`peradons at die Base of Sleeping lit: ,~Touuwin <br />We have received your letter of Nnt-~mber 12. 199? an0 aze u-ririn~ to assure you dta.t we have similar <br />concerns over the potential loss i+f signiticant cultural resources on public larrds. Wa hava Veen <br />.involved early In the Stet: of Colorado State prrmiUng process and have taken every reasonable <br />nteacure m preserve vey cuhural properties' that mtyht be dueatened by the Daren Stone Gravt:l Minir@ <br />Operation. We havt identified the. buundarlts of the site, have begun detailed sits mapping and have <br />made arrangements with qtr. Stone tc, tetttporanly fence the site until we can complete our site testing <br />and evaluation. '`ir. Stone has i<lattined the gravel deposits u,rder site ~MT202(t to be ecor-ptni~lly <br />recoverable and has tiled ~ mine plan for this area as his prirN•ity area to begin grave] removal. He <br />has, ttpwtver, agteeC to scold tree sire area temporarily until we can romplete our evaluation and anv <br />data recovery that Wright be neccssan•. Should our agency find that the site f51v17202U) be found to be <br />potentially eligible to the NRHP, we wilt begin consuL•atiun with yiau office a»d the Colorado State <br />Of&ce of Archaeology and Historic Prrser;ation en appropriate it.[ta recovery and mitigation. <br />with regarls to reports marl: ro your office about previous site dama;t, our aozncy has assessed tha <br />Nleged damage that has alre acly occurred from '`1r. Stone's operation and has determined that, while <br />surfxr disturbance (in the form i>f a shallow bacl.hoc pits) has r+ccurrzd within die boundaries cf <br />SMT2l)20, ao damage tv any portions of the sire drat misht contribute to it's eiigibillry was done. Mr. <br />Stone nulilied us in advance that he intended tv exerclce his nrsnerat right sad test the area for <br />ccoaomic gravel deposits. Test pits in the cicituty of SMl"lQ2U were monitored 6y a Bt.'vt <br />archaeologist. :vo culttual resources ware found. Several subsrgtt::tt inspections of the tt+e site have <br />been contpl~tad by $L\I personnel and no recently bulidcaed road exists wirrin the boundaries in die <br />site. A rubher•tired hacf.'hor did cote[ die site houtrdary to excavate die about rest pats first summzr <br />but no doting ur tti,nJ-building was done. A pre-1975 road lies within die site boundary. HOWC9er, <br />[his "road" was reclaimeJ and dosed in 19R t ro protect the cultural ute In qucsuon and has ncu been <br />re-npcnrd ur uritiied by Mr. Slone since. <br />We have initiated formal consultaSun with die Qtlorudo SHPO's office regarding our ob)igauona <br />~ under Section 106 1'c+r the authvrizar;on ul the devrti+pmrnt of pritnte mineral estate. We have been <br />