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Historic Properties Treatment Plan, Collom Mine, Colorado 4 <br />2.0 RESEARCH DESIGN <br />This section presents the research design developed for Sites 5MF969, 5FMF3996, 5MF4003, <br />and 5MF6098 in order to mitigate the adverse effects to these NRHP - eligible sites resulting <br />from the implementation of the Colowyo mining activities. <br />Data recovery excavations are the most appropriate means of mitigating the adverse effects to <br />Sites 5MF969, 5FMF3996, 5MF4003, and 5MF6098. As required by the current regulation <br />(36 Code of Federal Regulations [C.F.R.] 800.5), the following issues have been considered and <br />addressed: 1) these four sites are significant chiefly for the information on prehistory that they <br />are likely to yield through archaeological excavation; 2) these four sites are not likely to contain <br />human remains or associated funerary objects, sacred objects, or items of cultural patrimony; <br />3) these four sites do not have long -term preservation value (e.g., traditional, cultural, and <br />religious sites); 4) these four sites do not possess any known special significance to another <br />ethnic group or community; and 5) these four sites are not of value for permanent in situ display <br />or public interpretation. Completion of the proposed data recovery investigations will establish <br />a condition of no adverse effect. <br />These five site - specific research topics relevant to this investigation can be divided into a set <br />of interrelated problem domains including features and feature technology, lithic technology and <br />material cultural, subsistence patterns, and site activities. These research topics will aid in <br />developing the data gaps discussed in Reed and Metcalf (1999). Specific research topics and <br />associated questions for each of these domains are provided below. The following research <br />questions will allow for comparisons between the sites, thereby providing an opportunity to gain <br />a clearer understanding of prehistoric hunter - gatherer use of the area. <br />47599 TRC Mariah Associates Inc. <br />