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<br />;;• <br />ABSTRACT <br />Lorencito Coal Company LLC contracted with Greystone Envirorunental Consultants to <br />conduct an intensive cultural resource inventory for an amended mine permit application. <br />Areas requiring cultural resource inventory consisted of areas of proposed contour cuts, <br />ponds, and fill areas on the east and west sides of Lorencito Canyon north of Little Pine <br />Canyon, the lower portion of Jeff Canyon, the lower portion of Little Jeff Canyon and a <br />small area along the south side of the Picketwire Valley west of Lorencito Canyon <br />(Figure 1). These areas are east of and overlapping with cultural resource inventories <br />conducted in 1996 for a mine permit application (McKibbin et al 1997). A total of 235 <br />acres of new survey was completed plus some small areas overlapping with previous <br />cultural resource inventories. Previously recorded sites in the project azea were relocated <br />to assess if any impacts or changes have occurred since their original recording. A <br />reevaluation form for one previously recorded site, SLA7196, was completed due to <br />impacts from mine activities. There aze l3 new sites and 12 isolated finds recorded as a <br />result of this cultural resource inventory. Four sites need additional information to be <br />obtained by subsurface testing for National Register evaluation. Nine newly recorded <br />sites are evaluated as not eligible. Native American consultation is recommended for <br />four of the ten not eligible newly recorded sites. One previously recorded, revisited site, <br />is evaluated as not eligible. Cultural resources that are not eligible for the NRHP and that <br />aze not contributing resources to the proposed Lorencito Canyon Rural Historic <br />Landscape, require no further work. Cultural resource cleazance is recommended with <br />the stipulation that eligible and unevaluated sites be avoided. For the sites that must be <br />avoided, it is recommended that protective fencing be erected to prevent inadvertent <br />damage and to ensure that all construction activity stay outside site boundaries. <br />C~ <br />