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• <br />ABSTRACT <br />Lorencito Coal Company LLC contracted with Greystone Environmental Consultants to conduct <br />an intensive cultural resource inventory for an amended mine permit application. Areas requirins <br />cultural resource inventory consisted of areas of proposed contour cuts on the east and west sides <br />of Lorencito Canyon north of Little Pine Canyon, the lower portion of Jeff Canyon, the lower <br />portion of Little Jeff Canyon and a small area along the south side of the Picketwire Valley west <br />of Lorencito Canyon (Figure 1). These areas are east of and overlapping with cultural resource <br />inventories conducted in 1996 for a mine permit application (McKibbin et al 1997). A total of <br />235 acres of new survey was completed plus some small areas overlapping with previous cultural <br />resource inventories. Previously recorded sites in the project area were relocated to assess if any <br />impacts or changes have occurred since their original recording. A reevaluation form for one <br />previously recorded site, SLA7196, was completed due to impacts from mine activities. There <br />are 13 new sites and 12 isolated finds recorded as a result of this cultural resource inventory. <br />Native American consultation is recommended for four newly recorded sites. Four sites need <br />additional information obtained by subsurface testing for National Register evaluation. Five <br />newly recorded sites are evaluated as not eligible. One previously recorded, revisited site, was <br />evaluated as not eligible. Cultural resources that are not eligible for the NRHP and that are not <br />contributing resources to the proposed Lorencito Canyon Rural Historic Landscape, require no <br />further work. Cultural resource cleazance is recommended with the stipulation that eligible and <br />unevaluated sites be avoided. For the sites that must be avoided, it is recommended that <br />protective fencing be erected to prevent inadvertent damage and to ensure that all construction <br />• activity stay outside site boundazies. <br />• <br />