2011-04-08_PERMIT FILE - C1981012A (8)

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• facilities is shown on Map 11, Surface Facilities and Roads - Fast Portal. The rest of the study area was considered to be cleared archaeologically. On January 19, 1984 Dr. Gordon C. Tucker, Jr. completed investigations for cultural resources on lands proposed to be impacted by rnnstruction and operation of the preparation plant area (PPA) and associated refuse disposal area (ROA). This area crontained 86 acres as shown on Figure 2, Regional Map Showing locations of Project Area. A summary of the survey report is contained in the following paragraphs. Site file search and intensive inventory were used to determine the likelihood of cultural resources in the project area. The procedures are described below. A Site File Search Request was made on January 18, 1984 to the Colorado Historical Society for Sections 14 and 23 of T33S, R68W. This was done to determine the nature and location of all cultural resources within • a larger area encompassing the project facilities. An intensive pedestrian survey tactic was used to inspect the project area. In the proposed RAA, one archaeologist walked a zig-zag path up the eastern edge of the canyon, across the ridge-crest and back down the western edge. All likely site localities, such as level areas and rock outcrops, were checked for cultural materials. Most of the area consisted of relatively steep (greater than 30 percent) slopes and these areas were not intensively inspected as cultural resources are not likely to be found there. Greater attention was paid, however, to a small area of flat ground at the mouth of the canyon, close to Colorado Highway 12, where it was believed that prehistoric, or, more likely, historic resources might be found. The PPA, on the opposite side of the highway adjacent to the Middle Fork, was inspected by walking a number of swaths in an east-west direction across the area. Close attention was paid to the narrow river • channel, the only undisturbed portion of the area. 2.04-7