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• COLORADO HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Colorado Heritage Center 1300 Broadway Denver. Colorado 80203 •March 4, 1980 ~ - `/ Alan Salter General Manager King real Mine 4424 County Road 120 Hesperus, CO 81326 Dear Mr. Salter: This office received your correspondence of February 21, 1980, requesting a 1) statement for. the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board concerning the cultural-historical impact 'of the King Coal Mine operation, as_ well as 2) information for the proposed federal lease. •We conducted a file search of the Colorado Archaeological Site Inventory and the Colorado Inventory of Historic Sites, as well as nominations pending or on the National Register of Historic Places; for Township 35N, Range 11W, and Sections 21 and 32, which would in- elude the boundaries for the mine bench, the current federal coal ' lease, and the application for coal lease. There are no known Archaeological or Historical/Architectural resources in the impact area of the proposed undertaking. Based on the information supplied in your correspondence, it appears-that there would no no further impact to cultural resources due to the seriously disturbed nature of the terrain in the 8.36 acres of the mine-bench area. However, despite the fact that there will be no surface disturb- ances in the proposed coal lease area, these mining operations-will possibly create an indirect impact on potentially eligible cultural resources due to the potential for vandalism on cultural resources. There is always•the possibility that unidentified Cultural Resources exist within this area. Therefore. a professional survey should be conducted to Identif}t any Eligible Cultural Resources in the propased project area. '-~: As you Irnow, the ultimate responsibility for compliance with the Pational Historic Preservation Act. as implemented in 36 CFR 800, remains with the federal agency and cannot be delegated by it. The ~,~ 1 ~ -. November 1993 -