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2 <br />6) Drill Hole ~5 location (pad and access road already constricted) <br />Township 135, Range 9041, Prr of NE of SE4 Section 2, <br />Gunnison County. <br />7) Mining Waste Disposal area <br />Township 145, Range 92W, S; of SEd Section 26, Delta County. <br />It is estimated that the maximum area of disturbance for drill holes will <br />not exceed an area measuring one hundred feet on a side. Access routes were <br />estimated to require forty feet of right-of-way. The mining waste disposal <br />area ~•rill be subjected to excavation and filling, and surface and subsurface <br />disturt~ance is anticipated for the entire area. <br />The field inventory and report preparation were conducted by Kris J. <br />Kranzush, acting as Principal Investigator for G4F:-AC. Surrey access and pro- <br />ject area delineation maps were provided by Tom Hurst, [•ii.-ung Engineer, Western <br />Slope Caron, Inc. <br />The field investigations pursuant to this report were conducted under emer- <br />• gency verbal permit from Doug Scott, Archaeologist of the Bureau of Land 1Sanage- <br />ment Montrose District. CZ,:K-AC operates within the 3Ii~1 Craig, Canon City and <br />Grand Junction Districts of Colorado under Federal Antiquities Permit Plumber <br />?7~0~86. <br />Descri tp ion of Stu3y area <br />All areas investigated are located within the North Fort of the Gunnison <br />River drainage. Proposed drill holes are located in or just above the North <br />Fork canyon east of Somerset, Colorado while the mining waste disposal area is <br />located southwest of the drill holes and east of the North Forjc floodplain be- <br />tween Bone and Cottonwood Mesas. Geologically, the area consists of Cretaceous <br />and Upper Cretaceous sandstones and shales. <br />Climatic data available from the Paonia weather station indicate that <br />temperature and precipitation averages are moderate for a mountain valley. An- <br />nual temperatures average in the mid- to high-1,~'s,with precipitation averaging <br />between 11 and 13 inches per year. The moderate climate is one reason that the <br />area excells in fnLit production, alt!:ough killing frosts in late spring and <br />early fall have been knotirn to occur with devastating effects. <br />