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Idaho National Laboratory Cultural Resource Management Plan

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4. Any ground disturbance within or around CITRC, where sensitive human remains have been<br />

inadvertently discovered in disturbed and undisturbed contexts<br />

5. Any activities proposed for known or suspected zones of American Indian sensitivity and/or high<br />

archaeological resource density.<br />

Proposed INL projects that meet one or more of these criteria are screened by the INL CRM Office to<br />

determine if they will affect cultural resources. Various techniques are employed to make this<br />

determination, including archive and record searches, on-the-ground surveys, monitoring of ground<br />

disturbance, and consultation. Basic guidelines for the conduct of these activities are provided in<br />

expanded discussions to follow and in Appendix D. Archaeological reviews are not completed for<br />

projects that occur within highly disturbed areas inside fenced INL facilities (TAN, WRRTF, NRF, RTC,<br />

INTEC, RWMC, MFC) or within 50 ft of standing buildings or structures in unfenced INL facilities<br />

(CFA, ARA, BORAX). EBR-I and CITRC are exceptions to this general rule because they each contain<br />

resources of special concern (<strong>National</strong> Historic Landmark at EBR-I and American Indian human remains<br />

at CITRC). Emergency activities are also exempt from cultural resource review.<br />

In general, all cultural resource reviews for archaeological resources begin with an exchange of<br />

information between the INL project manager and the INL CRM Office with the purpose of identifying<br />

an area of potential effect for the proposed project. Once this area is defined and the proposed activities<br />

within it are clearly understood, the INL CRM Office conducts an archive and literature review to<br />

determine the extent and results of any previous archaeological investigations within the project's area of<br />

potential effect.<br />

The archive and literature search is designed to evaluate previous efforts to identify cultural resources<br />

within the area of potential effect for the proposed project and assess the need for additional<br />

archaeological survey, data recovery, and/or consultation. Areas of potential effect for projects proposed<br />

outside the boundaries of defined INL facility areas will always be intensively surveyed for<br />

archaeological resources before any work begins. In some instances, previously surveyed areas will be<br />

reexamined. This may occur if the previous survey was originally conducted more than 10 years prior or<br />

is judged to be of less rigor than current requirements call for, if conditions have changed markedly since<br />

the original survey was conducted (e.g., range fire), or if the proposed project is located in a highly<br />

sensitive area (e.g., CITRC and the Big Lost River). Other situations may call for intensive new surveys<br />

of proposed project areas and still others a mix of on-the-ground survey and stakeholder consultation.<br />

Once all archaeological resources are identified within a project's area of potential effect, the INL<br />

CRM Office will determine if the proposed project will cause any impacts to the resources through a<br />

combination of additional archaeological or archival investigation and communication. Three scenarios<br />

are possible for archaeological resources at this point in the cultural resources review process:<br />

1. No cultural resources are present within the area of potential effect for the proposed undertaking, or<br />

cultural resources are present in the area but the proposed undertaking will have no effect on them<br />

because they are included in the official list of exempt resources (e.g. isolated finds) or they can be<br />

avoided by all project activities<br />

2. <strong>Cultural</strong> resources that are potentially eligible for listing on the <strong>National</strong> Register are present within<br />

the area of potential effect and the proposed undertaking will impact them, but the effect will not be<br />

adverse<br />

3. <strong>Cultural</strong> resources are present within the area of potential effect and the proposed undertaking will<br />

adversely impact them.<br />

When no archaeological resources have been identified in the project area, the INL CRM Office<br />

completes documentation of the identification efforts and a justification of the finding of no effect for<br />

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