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02J12/1998 11:22 9702597514 <br />FROM GLVBgsoc. • <br /> <br />PF!GhE ND. : 970 565 10~ <br />PAGE 06 <br />Feb. 12 1998 0H:4GFM P1 <br />' s <br />United States Department of the Interior. "~ <br />SURE.4UOFL4.NDh(p,~(AGF_yfEVT ., ~ ~ <br />Suzie Campbell Be11 <br />P. O. Box 312 <br />San funn Re'ource Area <br />~~ u~nselrvi n. <br />Fedc+91 Building ~ 2000 <br />illl (;amina DehRla ' CO-03 8 <br />D~+rango. COIOraGO 81301 <br />Received <br />Cortez, Colorado 51321 <br />FEB 1 2198 FEB 1 6 144 <br />_ Dear.Ms, Fell: :~ Du•'~n~o Field ~ ' <br />. , • Division c! tJr;;yrz1S Oryice <br />In answer to your letter of Janua~e4~y 1996 we will respond ~to <br />each numbered question you posed. <br />' 1. There were three mineral,axploration test pits dug by Mr. <br />Stone under the oversize of a BLM archaeologist within the boundary <br />of site SD7'1'2020 and one at the edge of site. <br />2. ~ No new roads. were "cut"' nor "blade dropped', random or <br />otherwise, on the subject parcel. At the proposed Stone Pit site,' <br />a backhoa was used to access the area overload, dig the test pits, <br />and backfill'each disturbed site- The bucket side of the backhoe <br />was :.red to push the excavated mattrisl back into .the holes- At <br />each test pit site the•backhce.would have had to turn around, <br />makil•3 some ni$Yks in the soil .and disturbing the sa$ebrLSh at each <br />' site. It is apparent Chet sagebrush was crushed.and disturbed to <br />some extent both along old existing trails and overland where the <br />backhoe dri~.en to access the test pit sites. No blading occurred <br />as pare of this operation. There has been no bladinq apart from <br />the existing roads in the area for sevexal years- The teat pit <br />sites were random in lnyout and some test pits were more coupletely <br />filled and smoothed than others, but no::e were left open, <br />3. Your ®stimate of aepth and length bf each test pit agrees with ' <br />our observations. Digging a hole of this sort with a backhoe <br />generally makes a trench deeper at one end than the other. 47hile <br />the hole is beins dug, the operator typically places the excavated . <br />material in a pile to one side of the trench, <br />4. No "Notice O€ =ntoae" was Filed with BLM, nor is a federal <br />Notice of Intent required for this action. However. Mr. Stone did <br />Eile a Land Vse Permit application with our office on'Apri1 25; <br />1997. After coasultatior. with our legal counsel (Solicitors), ve <br />notified Mr. Scone that no federal permit was required for this <br />particular action. General notification is required however. and <br />Bz.rt.took ?3r. scone's application as that notification, As you <br />7c71ow, there was a DLM archeologist present during excavation and. <br />directing the location of the teat pits is the vicinity of site <br />S}SZ'2020. ' <br />