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Class III Inventory, Colowyo's Collom Mine Project 21 <br />4.0 PROJECT AND RESEARCH GOALS <br />In accordance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, the <br />overall goals of the Class III inventory include identifying and documenting all historic properties <br />that occur within the project area, evaluating each site to determine its NRHP eligibility status, and <br />assessing possible effects to any site evaluated as eligible for the NRHP. NRHP eligibility criteria <br />follow the research domains proposed by Grady (1980), Buckles and Buckles (1984), Black (1991), <br />and Reed and Metcalf (1999). <br />In conjunction with the Resource Protection Planning Process (RP3), Grady (1980) and Reed and <br />Metcalf (1999) identified research domains relative to northwest Colorado within the Northern <br />Colorado River Basin. Research topics or issues include chronology, resource exploitation, land use <br />practices, settlement and subsistence patterns, paleoenvironmental issues, and impacts of surface <br />collection and vegetative cover on the database. Most of the past research in the region has relied <br />on surface observations rather then controlled archaeological excavations. Therefore, most of the <br />detailed research topics addressed by the RP3 process would require data collected by extensive <br />systematic excavations and mapping in order to address the defined research domains. <br />Of importance to any large -scale archaeological investigation with a large site database is whether <br />or not settlement patterns can be identified and understood in terms of topographic contexts and <br />environmental factors. This line of inquiry can be divided into three different, yet interrelated, <br />sub - themes: 1) proximity to water; 2) site - specific topographic location data; and 3) settlement <br />distribution based on elevation. <br />Settlement patterns within a large area can be examined in some detail provided that the area in <br />question has been inspected intensively and contains suitably diverse topographic contexts. The <br />current project area and the combination of current and previous cultural resource inventories satisfy <br />the interpretive requirements. <br />47599 TRC Mariah Associates Inc. <br />