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18 <br />~em, IF #1, has been mitigated by its collection. IF #2, the bottle fragment, <br />provide no more valuable inforration, and therefore requires no further at- <br />tention. Since neither of these resouzves is eligible for nomination to the <br />National Register of Historic Plaees, it is recommended that the area be cleared <br />for use as a mining waste disposal area. <br />Prehistoric Locality #1 and the section corner marker near the mining <br />xaste disposal area are outside project impact boundaries, and since they will <br />not be impacted, require no further attention. This investigator does not find <br />either to be eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. <br />The Oliver Power Plant will be destroyed by Western Slope Carbon's explores <br />ation and development plans. In the opinion of this irrv estigator, the stricture <br />is not eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. Its <br />significance derives from the total patte m of exploitation of the immediate area, <br />for which.most of the physical evidence has been destroyed. As an example of <br />a mine and associated structures, it is not unique to the area -Bowie, the large, <br />intact Juanita Coal Company town, exists dust west of the Oliver area. Yet, the <br />sliver Power Plant is significant as the one intact stucture of the Oliver area. <br />o destroy it without more complete recordation would insure its loss, along with <br />~he rest of Oliver, to all but oral history. Ideally, the structure could be <br />moved to a location outside projected coal development impact areas and preserved. <br />If such a project were feasible, this investigator would recommend that the Oliver <br />Power Plant be moved to the Bowie area to be restored with the rest of Bowie as <br />an historic larrlmark. An ever increasing number of tourists drawn by the Paonia <br />Reservoir could in this manner be exposed to an outstanding exhibit of areal his- <br />tory. However, since Bowie lacks National Register status at this time, and since <br />no restoration plans have been fo mulcted, such a recommendation, disregarding the <br />cost of such a project, would be premature. <br />It is therefore recommended that an Historical American Engineering Record <br />(as authorized by the Historic Sites Act of 1935) be completed for the Oliver Power <br />Plant. This will allow Tor the compilation of structural and functional data to be <br />preserved for ilrrther historic research in the area, and will insure that accurate <br />ar~d detailed data will survive for an area known largely by oral tradition. Com- <br />pletion of such a document is deened sufficient mitigation of adverse impact pro-- <br />: posed by k'estern Slope Carbon to allow fora determination of no adverse effect. <br />