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2 <br />A separate report of investigations at this site, along with a treatment plan, has already been <br />• submitted (McKibbin and Carrillo 1997). <br />SLA7186 <br />SLA7186 was recorded in 1996 and recommended to be potentially eligible. Test <br />excavations were recommended to assess that eligibility (McKibbin et al: 1997:47-48, 127). Those <br />test excavations have been completed. The results aze reported in a sepazate document (McKibbin <br />and Carrillo 1997). This site is now recommended to be eligible for the National Register. A <br />research design and treatment plan (McKibbin and Carrillo 1997) describe reconunended additional <br />excavation and historic records reseazch as part of a mitigation plan for the site. Until the field work <br />for this treatment plan has been completed, cultural resource cleazance is not recommended for mine <br />development that will impact any portion of this site. The rail spur, P3 haul road, and realignment <br />of the Lorencito Canyon Road, as currently understood, will all impact portions of SLA7186. <br />However, if Lorencito Coal Company wishes to begin construction of any of these facilities prior <br />to completion of field work at the site, MAC recommends that the site be fenced, or otherwise <br />clearly marked, and that construction be allowed to proceed outside of the site boundazies, and <br />within the parameters of the other recommendations described here. <br />_ Inventory and Test Excavations along the P3 Haul Road Realignment <br />• A short portion of the proposed P3 haul road was realigned after the 1996 field season. The <br />new alignment placed the proposed road high in Jeff Canyon, but below the 7000 foot contour line <br />which served as the limit of the surface mine inventory area, and below the original alignment of the <br />road. To cover the new alignment, a narrow triangulaz block of about 90 acres was surveyed, <br />extending essentially from the Jeff Canyon creek, up to the 7000 foot contour line, and east to an <br />unnamed ephemeral drainage (Appendix 1 map). Nine new sites and five new isolated finds were <br />discovered in this area (sites SLA7367-7375, and isolated finds SLA7376-7379 and 7483; Appendix <br />2 table). The sites all represent the dominant pattern of small chipped stone and ground stone artifact <br />scatters already observed at the project azea (McKibbin et al. 1997). Four of these sites preserved <br />azeas of shallow Holocene deposition, and were test excavated. Testing was entirely negative. All <br />nine of these sites, and the isolated finds by definition, are recommended to be not eligible for <br />inclusion on the National Register. Cultural resource clearance is recommended for the P3 haul <br />road, with the condition discussed below (avoidance at SLA7181) and except far the portion of the <br />road within SLA7186. <br />SLA696Q recorded in 1996, was rediscovered during the inventory of the P3 haul road <br />realignment and found to have been misplotted. The map location has been corrected. <br />• <br />