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. `_ ,- <br />SURVEY OF CULTURAL RESOURCES - <br />• FOR NATIONAL KING C1~AL, INC.'S PROPOSED ' - ' <br />• - .NEW MINERALS LEASE <br />- , - LA PLAZA. COUNTY, COLORADO - • - - <br />~, - <br />- A survey of archaeological and historical resources was conducted <br />for National King Coal, Ine.'s new federal coal Iease. The lease area <br />consists of the SW 1/4 (160 •acres) of Section 32, Township 35 North, `' <br />• Range 11 West, New Mexico Principal Meridian, La Plata County, - <br />Colorado (attached map). The proposed lease area is privately owned <br />land with federally owned minerals under the jurisdiction of the Bureau <br />of Land Management, San Juan Resource Area. - <br />- Extraction of minerals by National King Coal; Inc. will be strictly <br />- subterranean with no surface disturbance in the lease area with the <br />- exception of the possibility of the excavation of an air shaft at some time. <br />Surface subsidence from mining activities is unlikely. <br />This work was completed in order to comply with legal provisions <br />contained in the Act for Preservation of American Antiquities of 1906 <br />(34 Stat. 225, 16, U . S. C. 431 et seq. ), the National Environmental Policy <br />ACt of 1969 (83 Stat. 852, 42, U.S.C. 431 et seq.) and Executive Order <br />• 11, 593. _ - - <br />ENVIRONA2ENTAL DESCRIPTION - - - • <br />The lease area includes rolling mesa top overlooking•Pine Gulch to <br />the south and east and the south facing canyon side of Pine Gulch. The <br />vegetation .:long the canyon side consists of pinyon pine, juniper, pon- <br />derosa pine, Gamblers oak, serviceberry, squawapple and mountain <br />mahogany. The vegetation on the mesa tops is primarily Gambel's <br />oak, serviceberry and squawapple with some wild rose and grasses. <br />The soil is a sandy clay Ioam. <br />SURVEY METHODS <br />- Prior to the initiation of this snu-vey, a file search was conducted <br />through the office of the San Juan Resource Area Archaeologist. <br />On Ausust~22, 1$80 Jamie A. Karlson, Staff Archaeologist, Fort <br />- Lewis College, walked and examined the project area for surface - <br />. . <br />.. . <br />November 1993 <br />