2012-06-20_PERMIT FILE - C2010089 (76)

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SURVEY PROCEDURES Literature Search and Records Check On August 21 and 22, 1979, Charles W. Wheeler, Staff Archaeologist for WCRM, Inc., conducted an intensive literature search and records check of the Office of the State Archaeo- logist of Colorado (OSAC) and the Office of the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) to determine if there were previously recorded cultural resources within or near the study area. Three aboriginal lithic scatters were found to be recorded north and northeast of the Nucla Mine study area (Copeland: 1978). One of these sites, 5MN803, is dated at ca. 1 AD to 200 AD. Due to the absence of diagnostic artifacts, it is not possible to date the other two sites. These latter two sites consisted of chipped stone only, while the first site yielded both chipped and ground stone (see Glossary). No architectural features were observed with these three sites. In addition, a file search of the Bureau of Land Management Montrose Area Office in Montrose, Colorado, was conducted by phone on September 25, 1979, by Michael S. Burney. Doug Scott, the BLM District Archaeologist, reported no aboriginal or Euroamerican sites had been previously recorded for the study area (see Glossary for definitions of Euroamerican and aboriginal artifacts). The Colorado Historical Society, Department of Historic Preservation, lists no historic sites within or immediately adjacent to the study area. In addition, no prehistoric or historic sites were recorded for the study area with OSAC. Field Methodology On September 16, 1979, Michael S. Burney, Principal Investigator for Western Cultural Resource Management, Inc., and Marcus Grant, Staff Archaeologist, surveyed the 100 acres of the Nucla Coal Mine on foot. The objective of this 100% pedestrian survey was to locate all cultural resources potentially 5 APR 9 1980