Guadalupe Generating Station Final Cultural Resourse Report - US ...

Abstract
current project’s proposed 6.9-acre APE in its entirety. This prior survey was conducted in 1998
by Archaeology Consultants, Inc. (ACI), for Panda Energy International, Inc., and was
associated with the original construction of the GGS facility located immediately south of the
proposed expansion site. This prior survey covered a larger, 134-acre proposed electric
generating plant site and an associated 2.6-mile-long proposed gas pipeline, and the current
project’s proposed 6.9-acre expansion site falls within the previously surveyed 134-acre electric
generating plant site. The 1998 survey consisted of pedestrian walkover with systematic shovel
testing, and shovel testing revealed pre-Holocene clay sediments with minimal to no potential to
contain intact cultural resources within the current project’s APE. No cultural resources were
observed within the current project’s APE during this prior survey. The THC concurred with the
findings of the prior survey on March 24, 1999, and cleared the proposed undertaking for
construction. Copies of ACI’s 1998 cultural resources survey report and the THC’s concurrence
are included in Appendix A.
Based on the negative results of the prior cultural resources survey that covered the
current project’s proposed 6.9-acre APE in its entirety; the physiographic setting of the project
area away from extant water sources on an upland landform consisting of pre-Holocene clay
sediments with minimal potential to contain intact archeological deposits; and the lack of
previously recorded archeological sites, cemeteries, listed NRHP properties, or SALs on or in
the immediate vicinity of the proposed project site, there is effectively no potential for intact
cultural resources to be present within the APE that would be eligible for listing on the NRHP.
No archeological or historic properties that are listed on, eligible for, or potentially eligible for
inclusion in the NRHP would be adversely affected by the proposed undertaking. Furthermore,
it is Horizon’s opinion that the proposed project site does not need to be resurveyed for cultural
resources at this time as it was recently surveyed for cultural resources in 1998, and no cultural
resources were found within the current project’s APE during the prior survey.
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