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1282CS18Q0005
South Forest Boundary Mastication Project Inventory and Report Question and Answer Document
Q1. We currently hold a “Permit for Archaeological Investigations” for all of Region 2 of the USFS. We assume that this will fulfill the contractor qualifications outlined within 160 of the Statement of Work since the San Juan National Forest is located within Region 2. Is this correct?
A1. Yes! Here is Section 160, just to make sure we are all on the same page.
160 – Contractor Qualifications The Principal Investigator for the project must hold a valid Forest Service Cultural Resource Use Permit for the San Juan National Forest and must have a current curation agreement with the Anasazi Heritage Center in Dolores, Colorado.
The Crew Chief of each survey crew must have the following minimum qualifications:
| • | A graduate degree in anthropology, specializing in archaeology, or equivalent archaeological experience. |
| • | Must be listed as a crew chief on the Principal Investigator’s valid FS Cultural Resource Special Use Permit. |
| • | At least 16 months of professional experience and/or specialized training in archaeological field work, artifact analysis, and administration. |
| • | At least 6 months experience in archaeological survey or excavation within the southwestern region of Colorado. |
| • | Demonstrated competence in collecting, handling, analyzing, evaluating, and reporting archaeological data. |
| • | The demonstrated ability to plan, equip, staff, organize, and supervise a cultural resources survey. |
| • | The demonstrated ability to accurately plot archaeological site locations on topographic maps and to map sites using GPS. |
| • | Demonstrated competence in identifying and describing artifacts including identification of prehistoric ceramics found within southwestern Colorado, using published type descriptions. |
Each crew member must have the following minimum qualifications:
| • | At least 24 semester hours of credit in archaeology, anthropology, and/or history courses. Courses must include information on the conduct and theory of archaeoloical survey and excavation. |
| • | At least 3 months field experience in archaeological survey. Crew members must work under the direct field supervision of a certified crew leader or project supervisor at all times. |
Individuals, institutions, groups, and agencies performing work under a contract for cultural resources survey will submit the vitae of all persons who may work under the contract to the District Archaeologist. If additional individuals are recruited to work under the contract after its issuance, vitae of these additional individuals must also be submitted to the District Archaeologist. Information in the vitae will be used to verify the individuals meet the requirements listed above. All individuals proposed to work as principal investigators, project directors, or in other supervisory capacities must be approved by the District Archaeologist before that person may direct archaeological work.
Q2. How do the addendum report requirements differ from regular report requirements? Can sections such has cultural history and environment be omitted?
A2. Addendum reports will include the following, so no cultural history or environmental sections:
Addendum Reports shall include a Cultural Resources Survey Management Form and a description of:
| • | Field Methods |
| • | National Register of Historic Places evaluations (NRHP) |
| • | Evaluation of survey strategy or predictive models (i.e., analysis of resources found in high or low site probability areas) |
| • | Results and Recommendations will include a comprehensive assessment of direct, indirect and cumulative effects, actions to avoid, minimize or mitigate adverse effects to historic properties (e.g., Standard Site Protection Measures listed in Appendix D), and area(s) that require post-implementation survey. |
Q3. The SOW specifies that a cultural use permit for San Juan Forest is required; will a State permit be sufficient? (I wasn't aware that the Forest issued cultural use permits.)
A3. No, a State permit is not sufficient. They need a current Forest Service Region 2 Cultural Resource Use Permit and a current curation agreement with the Anasazi Heritage Center and they need to meet the experience criteria outlined in #1 above.
Q4. Are there options for camping in established campgrounds, and can campground fees and/or stay limitations be waived for the project? Are there any tent sites with electrical hookups that would power GPS equipment, or are those reserved for RV use only?
A4. There are campsites at the McPhee and House Creek campgrounds at McPhee Reservoir that have electrical hook-ups. These are concessionaire sites and are available to reserve on Rec.gov. I don’t think the concessionaire sites can waive the stay limitations.
Q5. We calculate that 24 miles (126,720 ft.) x 200 ft yields 25,344,000 sq ft or 581.81 acres, but the inventory acreage cited in the Scope of Contract (Section 110, paragraph 1, bullet 1) is 818 acres. Can you verify the acreage for this field inventory?
A5. Since the property boundary hasn’t been confirmed yet, we are going with a 300-ft buffer of the property line in the corporate GIS to conservatively cover the 200-ft fuelbreak in case of inaccuracies in the GIS. So, the acreage is a 300-ft buffer minus adequate previous inventory, and 818 acres is correct.
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