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<br />• Introduction: ~ <br />® This inventory report is submitted in compliance with <br />the stipulations of the National Environmental Policy Act <br />- .__ of 1973, Executive Order 1195?, and Section 106 of the National <br />Historic Preservation Act. It was prepared at the request of <br />the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior, <br />• Grand Junction, Colorado, District and Area Office. <br />Subject: Special use permit for land and road use in <br />connection with coal mining activity in and near Spink Canyon, <br />~C~ta / <br />Munger Creek, and ~inger Canyon - all located along the East <br />.Salt Creek Canyon. Existing roads in Munger and Spink Canyons <br />will be improved where necessary. Sheridan Enterprises project <br />• is to make exploratory cuts into the canyon walls at designated <br />points to determine the value of coal bearing strata. Minger <br />Canyon in section 21 and a location across from Spink Canyon <br />both need new road construction. <br />Legal Description of involved lands: <br />SE'~SF3 Sec. 6; SE~NE~ Sec. 7; S'~NW~NW4i SW4NW~, S'~SEwNW4, <br />NE~SW4, NW45E~, SWySE~,. and SE~SE~ of Sec. 8; NE~NE~ Sec. 17; <br />-NE~SW~, SE~SE~SW4 Sec. 9; NFP~NW3,;, h'E~yNE~NW~ Sec. 16; center Sec. <br />21, S~, of N~, Sec. 29; center Sec. 28; NW'ySFP~, NEySWy Sec. 27; <br />all of T.7S., R.102W., 6th P.M., Garfield Co. See attached <br />map for exact surveyed areas. <br />Methodology: <br />Transects were walked in a close .on the ground inspection <br />• of road right-of-ways and areas which were otherwise to be <br />disturbed. In addition to this, areas considered culturally <br />