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it is categorically not eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. The project
will have no effect on the artifacts since their informational content will be exhausted by
identifying them and mapping their location. These artifacts are not pursuant (36 CFR 60.4)
eligible because they are not associated with events that have made a significant contribution to
the broad pattern of our history; they are not associated with the lives of pe.rsons significant in
our past, they have not embodied the distinctive characteristic of a type, period or method of
construction. and they do not yield or contain, have not yielded or may not be likely to yield
information important in prehistory or history.

Page 37. Site SCM-2 was examined by Chambers and by BLM archaeologist Kaldenberg and
found to contain no artifacts. It is not an archaeological site. It is a fan conglomerate with .
cobbles and weather fractured rocks. Several hours were expended at the location with out
locating a single item even of dubious nature.

Page 38. This discussion is out of context. 36 CFR 800 4 (b)(l) is written for maximum
flexibility an states that "The agency official shall make a reasonable and good faith effort to
carry out appropriate identification efforts, which may include background research, consultation,
oral history interviews, sample field investigation, and field survey. If this is done then those
item shall be taken into account.

The Bureau made good faith efforts through the initial survey and follow up investigations by
Cambers and found no sites which will be effected by the project. The Criteria of Effect applied
to three '1)ossible sites" has found that none of them are eligible for listing in the National
Register of Historic Places. SCM 1, being an ash smear of unknown origin. If it was a roasting
pit it still would not be eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places because it
does not contain information important to prehistory and a simple testing program with shovel
tests would extract any possible data contained in the sites.

Executive Order 13007 states that heads of federal agencies shall consult with Federally
recognized tribes regarding sacred sites. There are no federally recognized sites within 100 miles
of the property. The site has been private property for almost 100 years. Even it had once been
significant for Native American use, the break in continuity of use for at least 100 if not 200
years would preclude it from being a Traditional Cultural Property (National Register Bulletin
38).

There are no adverse effects to sites because two of the properties identified by King are not
archaeological sites, the historic sites is not within the APE and the third (SCMI) property is
perhaps a single function feature which has been destroyed as a result of heavy equipment
maintenance on a dirt road.
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The Bureau of Land Management is in full compliance with the National Historic Preservation
Act and no additional work is required.
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