2012-03-07_PERMIT FILE - C2010088 (12)

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Site Significance The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA) directs federal agencies to ensure that federally- initiated or authorized actions do not inadvertently disturb or destroy significant cultural resource values. Significance is a quality of cultural resource properties that qualifies them for inclusion in the NRHP. The statements of significance included in this report are field assessments to support recommendations to the BLM and State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO). The final determination of site significance is made by the controlling agencies in consultation with the SHPO and the Keeper of the Register. The Code of Federal Regulations was used as a guide for the in -field site evaluations. Titles 36 CFR 50, 36 CFR 800, and 36 CFR 64 are concerned with the concepts of significance and (possible) historic value of cultural resources. Titles 36 CFR 65 and 36 CFR 66 provide standards for the conduct of scientific data recovery activities. Finally, Title 36 CFR 60.6 establishes the measure of significance that is critical to the determination of a site's NRHP eligibility, which is used to assess a site's research potential: The quality of significance in American history, architecture, archaeology, and culture is present in districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects of State and local importance that possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association, and a) that are associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of history; or b) that are associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; or c) that embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or that represent the work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or d) that have yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in the prehistory or history. A moderate approach was used in making the site significance evaluation. This approach reflects a restraint in the interpretation of the evaluative criteria while not allowing common pitfalls to occur. Any archaeological resource is potentially eligible if one can legitimately argue that it is likely to be associated with a cultural pattern, process, or activity important to the history or prehistory of its locality, the United States, or humanity as a whole, provided its study can contribute to an understanding of that pattern, process, or activity. Pitfalls occur when sites are judged significant by their size, complexity, and age; that is, those that are large, multi- component, older sites are considered more significant than the small single component variety. Resource Descriptions Isolate 5ME17170 is an historic can and glass scatter. The scatter is located on the valley floor and south of Highway 6 & 50. The elevation is 4470 feet and the vegetation is