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However, the presence of staining suggests the potential for datable features and possibly intact activity areas. Testing or avoidance is recommended for the site. The 50 foot buffer and burial of the shots along the seismic line deviation will be sufficient to protect the site from any impacts due to the proposed seismic activity. All travel along the centerline will be restricted to a SO foot wide corridor on either side of the centerline. No driving will take place outside this corridor along this deviation except on the existing bladed road that is located directly above the deviation and crosses through the northern end of the site, All augering of shot holes will be confined to the staked centerline. Burial of the shots 20 feet below the surface in the drainage bottom below the cultural deposits should further negate any impacts to the site. SRT1368: This site is a lithic scatter associated with the first terrace on the south side of an east- flowing unnamed intermittent tributary of Fish Creek. The site is bordered on the south by a barbed wire fence and on the west by a small drainage that flows into the tributary. Its eastern boundary is mazked by the observed extent of the surface artifacts. The site is eroding downslope to the north toward the tributary drainage. The south bank of the drainage has been heavily dissected by rivulets which have created small ridge-like landforms. The deposits consist of a light orange brown alluvial sand with very few cobbles and pebbles. Avery dazk brown soil (A) horizon roughly 20 centimeters thick and which contains small charcoal flecks is located approximately 30 centimeters below the present surface. The vegetation on the site consists of low and tall sagebrush, rabbitbrush, bunch grasses, yarrow, lupine, and other fortis. It becomes very dense with low ground visibility on both the east and west boundaries. The artifacts on the site consist of at least 250 pieces of lithic debitage. Most of the flakes are tertiary flakes and most are biface thinning flakes with a few core reduction flakes also present. Small pressure flakes are also present in lazge numbers. Materials noted include chert, quartzite, and siltstone. Chert is the dominant material type, and colors include white, pink, dark gray, light gray, light brown, cream, white with rose splotches, speckled black, dark reddish brown, and a translucent white. The white chert is the most numerous. Quartzite colors include white and gray, and the siltstone is represented by cream and dark gray colors. The artifacts are denser at the western end of the site than at the eastern end, a pattern which appeazs to be the result of natural processes rather than cultural ones. The deposits at the west end of the site have been more severely impacted by erosion which appeazs to have exposed more of the cultural . deposits on the surface. The artifacts at the east end of the site on the other hand are more scattered and the deposits have not been affected by erosion to the degree that they have at the west end. This site is recommended to be potentially eligible to the National Register. It has a large artifact inventory of flakes and there is excellent potential for additional buried remains. The artifacts are eroding from a subsurface context and appeaz to be associated with a buried soil horizon. The presence of charcoal in deposits suggests the potential for datable materials. Avoidance is recommended for the site. 10