PERMFILE132157

• Permit No: C1981041A
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 5/13/2002
• Section_Exhibit Name: Tab 5 Cultural Resources
• Media Type: D
• Archive: Yes

• Introduction
At the request of Powderhorn Coal Company and Colorado
Mine Land Reclamation, an intensive cultural resource
inventory of a proposed 1.0-mile-long addition to a powerline
for the Roadside Mine in Mesa County, Colorado, was conducted
by Carl E. Conner of Grand River Institute. Grand River
Institute currently holds BLM Antiquities Permit No. C-52775.
A files search made through the BLM Grand Junction Area Office
on 22 June 1992 showed no cultural resources were previously
recorded in the study area. Field work was performed on the
23rd of June, and a total of 22 acres of private lands was
inspected. Two isolated finds (SME6899 and 5ME6900) were
recorded.
This work was done to meet requirements of the Surface
Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. Sec.
1201), the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966
(as amended, 16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.), the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321),
Executive Order 11593 (36 F.R. 8921), the Historical and
Archaeological Data-Preservation Act (AHPA) of 1974 (16 U.S.C.
469), the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43
• U.S.C. 1701), the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of
1979 (16 U.S.C. 470aa et sea., as amended), and Article 80.1
of the Colorado Revised Statutes. These laws are conce=ned
with the identification, evaluation, and protection of
fragile, non-renewable evidences of human, activity, occupation
and endeavor reflected in districts, sites, structures,
artifacts, objects, ruins, works of art, architecture, and
natural features that were of importance in human events.
Such resources tend to be localized and highly sensitive to
disturbance.
Location of Project Area
The study area is approximately 2.0 miles east of the
town of Palisade. The proposed powerline addition is located
in T. lOS., R. 98W., Section 34 and T. 115., R. 98W., Section
2, 6th P.M. (Figure 1).
Affected Environment
The project area lies within the Piceance Basin, a major
geologic subdivision of western Colorado. The basin is an
elongate structural downwarp of the Colorado Plateau province
• that apparently began its subsidence approximately 70 million
years ago during the Laramide orogeny. Sediments from
surrounding highlands were deposited in the basin,
accumulating to a thickness of as much as 9000 feet by the
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