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ABSTRACT <br /> On September 16 , 1979 , Western Cultural Resource <br /> Management , Inc. conducted a cultural resource inventory <br /> for Peabody Coal Company on approximately 100 acres located <br /> north of Nucla, Colorado, Township 47N, Range 15W, Section <br /> 25 in Montrose County. Peabody Coal plans to expand mining <br /> operations at the Nucla Mine, and under the Office of Sur- <br /> face Mining Regulations , Title 30 CFR, Part 700 , a cultural <br /> resource inventory is required. Approximately 50 acres of <br /> the area surveyed is currently permitted under Colorado Mined <br /> Lard Reclamation Permit No. 75-36 , and the remaining 50 acres <br /> is being applied for. Not all this additional 50 acres will <br /> be disturbed by mining. None of the area surveyed contains <br /> federal surface or minerals . <br /> A 100% pedestrian survey of the study area yielded two <br /> aboriginal open campsites containing ground and chipped <br /> stone. Western Cultural Resource Management_,_ Inc. recommends <br /> that neither site be found eligible to the National Register <br /> of Historic Places . <br /> v <br />