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• TAB 5 <br />CULTURAL RESOURCES <br />General Introduction <br />Teb 5, Cultural Resources contains the reports and findings of cultural resource <br />investigations at the Yoast Mine. Several distinct investigations were conducted which <br />span sixteen years. iab 5 presents reports of the field investigations, and findings of <br />the consulting archaeological firms and pertinent regulatory authorities. Individual <br />cultural resource inventory reports for the Yoast Mine and associated tlocumentation of <br />regulatory findings may be found in the accompanying attachments and exhibits (see Table <br />of Contents). <br /> Summary of Cultural Resource Studies <br /> The initial cultural resources investigation of the Yoast Mine permit area was conducted <br /> in 1979 end 1980 by 4es tern Cultural Resource Management, Inc . (4CRM )- This study was <br /> conducted at a time when mining activities were projected in the near future; however mine <br />• development et Yoast was eventually delayed in favor of devel oping other coal reserves <br /> located northwest of the Yoast area. <br />The 1979 end 1980 NCRM investigation was conducted on an approximately 1413 eere study <br />area representing the projected permit area et the time the study was conducted. Three <br />historic sites (SRT 163, 165, and 166), one prehistoric site (SRT164), and four prehistoric <br />isolated finds (SRT167-770) were identified. None of these remains were considered <br />significant or eligible to the National Register of Historic place by wCRM, antl no further <br />' work was recommended. <br />The report of YLRM~s findings, entitled, "An Archaeological tnven[ory of [he Yoas[ Coal <br />lease in Routt County, Colorado" is presen cad as Attachment 5-t. The survey area end <br />locations of the cultural resources that were found ere shown on Map 2 of the report <br />(Attachment 5-1, Page 3) and Exhibit 5-1. <br />Subsequent to the original investigations, Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, Inc. (MAC) <br />was retained to perform additional cultural resource inventories in anticipated permit <br />• expansion areas and a haulroad corridor. This investigation included approximately 1372 <br />acres 5urrountling the initial area surveyed by WORM and approximately 74 acres in the <br />1 <br />