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Introduction <br />At the request of the Somerset Mining Company and the <br />Bureau of Land Management, a Class I and Class II cultural <br />resource inventory for the proposed Hawksnest Mine subsidence- <br />impact area was conducted by Carl E. Conner and Rebecca L. <br />Hutchins of Grand River Institute. The study was requested to <br />determine the affects of possible surface subsidence from the <br />proposed subsurface mining activities. <br />The Class I, cultural resources literature review, was <br />conducted for a 2500-acre block. This block encompasses the <br />mine plan area and acreage outside the potential impact area <br />of the project, which includes federal and private lands. The <br />Class II, sampling survey, of the area included approximately <br />100 acres of the potential impact area. This work was <br />performed during the last week of February and the first week <br />of March 1992. As a result of the study, five sites (SGN254, <br />5GN266, 5GN1494, SGN1561, and 5GN1562) were found to be <br />previously recorded. None of these are considered eligible <br />for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. <br />The study was done to meet requirements of the Surface <br />Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. Sec. <br />• 1201), the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966 <br />(as amended, 16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.), the National <br />Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321), <br />Executive Order 11593 (36 F.R. 8921), the Historical and <br />Archaeological Data-Preservation Act (AHPA) of 1974 (16 U.S.C. <br />469), the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 <br />U.S.C. 1701), the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of <br />1979 (16 U.S.C. 470aa et sea., as amended). and Article 80.1, <br />Colorado Revised Statutes. These laws are concerned with the <br />identification, evaluation, and protection of fragile, non- <br />renewable evidences of human activity, occupation and endeavor <br />reflected in districts, sites, structures, artifacts, objects, <br />ruins, works of art, architecture, and natural features that <br />were of importance in human events. Such resources tend to be <br />localized and highly sensitive to disturbance. <br />Study Objectives <br />The purposes of the study were to identify known cultural <br />resources through the files search/literature review; conduct <br />a Class II archaeological survey of cultural resource "suspect <br />areas" within the acreage potentially subject to direct impact <br />from mine subsidence; to identify and accurately locate <br />archaeological sites and/or districts and isolated finds; to <br />1 <br />