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2 <br />• 6) Drill Hole ;#5 location (pad and access road already constructed) <br />Township 13S, Range 90w, Nrly of NE4 of SE4 Section 2, <br />Gunnison County. <br />7) Mining Waste Disposal area <br />Township 11,5, Range 92W, SE.'-a-a of SF~ 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 Trill be subjected to excavation and filling, and surface and subsurface <br />disturbance 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 G~K-AC. Survey access and pro- <br />ject area delineation maps were provided by Tom Nurst, [dining Engineer, Weste m <br />Slope Carbon, Inc. <br />The field irnestigations pursuant to this report were conducted under emer- <br />gency verbal permit Stan Doug Scott, Archaeologist of the Bureau of Land JQanage- <br />• went Montrose District. G1:K-AC operates within the BIM Craig, Canon City and <br />Grand Junction Districts of Colorado under Federal Antiquities Permit Number <br />??-co-o86. <br />Descri ion of Study Area <br />All areas irnestigated are located within the North Fork 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 Fork floodplain be- <br />txeen Bone and Cottonwood Dtesas. 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-I,0's,with precipitation averaging <br />between 11 and 13 inches per year. The moderate climate is one reason that the <br />1 <br />• area excells in fruit production, although killing frosts in late spring and <br />early fall have been knrnun to occur with devastating effects. <br />