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7 <br />• Four Native American representatives expressed an interest in visiting the project area but <br />only onerepresentativeactuallyvisited. Mr. GordonYellowman,Jr.,theCoordinatoroftheCultural <br />Protection Program for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma visited the project area on <br />May 27, 1997. Two recommendations received from Mr. Yellowman include having a treatment <br />plan in place for dealing with human remains should they be discovered during construction and <br />managing the prehistoric resources in the project area as a National Register District if it can be <br />adequately justified. Both of Mr. Yellowman's recommendations have been accommodated. The <br />first is addressed through the Colorado Unmarked Human Graves Statute which provides explicit <br />instructions for dealing with human remains. The second is addressed with the recommendation to <br />establish the LCRHL. <br />Effective Environment <br />The effective environment for these project areas is discussed in detail in the original report <br />for the Lorencito Mine (McKibbin et al. 1997) and will not be repeated here. <br />Files Search. Literature Review, and Cultural History <br />A files search was completed for the original survey report and the results are presented there <br />(McKibbin et al. 1997). Discussions of the cultural history for the area can be found in the <br />prehistoric and historic contexts (Eigmy 1984; Mehls and Carter 1984; Zier and Kalasz 1999) and <br />• cultural resource inventory reports on the Cuchaza Pipeline (Adams et al. 1998 ), Raton Basin <br />Expansion Pipeline (O'Brien et al. 2000), the Campo Lateral Pipeline (Morrison et al. 1998) and <br />Picketwire Lateral and hoop (Rood and Church 1989; Pool 2000) as well as the original Lorencito <br />Canyon Mine Survey (McKibbin et al. 1997) and the Ancho Canyon Archaeological Project (Biella <br />and Dorshow 1997). <br />Nature of Impacts <br />The nature of the impacts is discussed in the original survey report for the Lorencito Canyon <br />Mine (McKibbin et al. 1997). <br />Methods <br />Pedestrian [nventorv <br />Methods for pedestrian inventory follow those described for the 1996 investigations <br />(McKibbin et al. 1997:15). Delimiting the areas to survey followed a number of methods. All <br />facilities locations are based on 1 ":400' scale topographic maps provided by Lorencito Coal <br />Company. None of these facilities were staked on the ground at the time of inventory. <br />. Sedimentation ponds and fill areas were covered by surveying the drainages and bounding ridges <br />surrounding the aeeas where the ponds and fills will be located. All of these facilities are located <br />below the surface mine area, so survey extended to the edge of what was had already been surveyed <br />