Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) - Tribal Correspondence

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Ryan.

This document is a Section 106 Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians (SYBCI) Transmittal Letter for the San Antonio Creek Restoration Project. The project proposed willow pole planting and container planting of riparian plants within a 12-acre field along the south side of San Antonio Creek as mitigation in support of the San Antonio Road West Bridge Maintenance Project. This letter is the initiation of Vandenberg Air Force Base for consultation with the SYBCI on finding no cultural resources...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Ryan.

This document is a Section 106 transmittal letter to the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians (SYBCI) for demolition of buildings 960 and 970. The purpose of the project is to demolish Buildings 960 and 970, because they are vacant and no longer in use. United States Air Force Policy requires the removal of facilities that are no longer in use, or else they will continue to degrade and become a liability. The northeastern part of site CA-SBA-246 extends into the Area of Potential Effects (APE)....

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This document is a Section 106 transmittal letter from the 30th Space Wing (30 SW) of the United States Space Force (USSF) at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians (SYBCI) to continue consultation for the proposed Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) Test Program that would develop and test a new ICBM system to modernize the United States land-based nuclear arsenal for the purposes of replacing the nation's existing Minuteman II ICBM system. 30 SW...

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This document is a letter initiating Section 106 consultation with the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians (SYBCI) for the Umbra Road and Tod Road Conduit Repair Project. The letter seeks SYBCI comment for 1) the delineation of the project Area of Potential Effect, 2) a determination of no adverse effect for archaeological sites CA-SBA-706, -1070/1071, and -3002, 3) a determination that the site CA-SBA-1778 is not a historic property, and 4) the project finding of no adverse effect for the...

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This document is a Section 106 transmittal letter initiating consultation with the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians (SYBCI) regarding impacts to cultural resources of Tribal concern included as part of the "Demolition of Four ICBM Launch Facilities in Support of the New START" project (Project). The 30th Space Wing of the United States Air Force, Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), in cooperation with Air Force Global Strike Command, proposes to render four intercontinental ballistic missile...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Ryan.

The document is a Section 106 tribal transmittal letter for the US Army Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) II Test Program. The letter initiates Section 106 with the Tribe and 1) seeks comment for the project's Area of Potential Effect, 2) indicates four archaeological historic properties that have been previously determined not eligible for the National Register, and lastly, 3) the determination that the project is not an adverse effect to historic properties.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Ryan.

This document is a Section 106 Tribal Continued Consultation Letter concerning the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) Test Program. This letter initiates consultation with the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians regarding proposed activities associated with the GBSD Test Program at Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB). The United States Air Force is preparing an Environmental Assessment/Overseas Environmental Assessment (EA/OEA) under the National Environmental Policy Act. The Tribe will...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Ryan.

This document is a Section 106 continued consultation letter with the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians concerning the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) Test Program. This letter is a response to the tribal comments that were sent back to Cultural Resources in response to the consultation with the United States Space Force regarding the Environmental Assessment for the GBSD Test Program. This letter includes a couple of the comments from the Tribe concerned the GBSD Test Program Project,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Ryan.

This document is a Section 106 Tribal Continued Consultation Letter concerning the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Test Program (GBSD). This letter is a response to the tribal comments that were sent back to Cultural Resources in response to the consultation with the United States Space Force regarding the Environmental Assessment for the GBSD Test Program.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Ryan.

This document is a Section 106 Tribal Continued Consultation Letter concerning the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Test Program (GBSD). This letter is a response to the tribal comments that were sent back to Cultural Resources in response to the consultation with the United States Space Force regarding the Environmental Assessment for the GBSD Test Program. This letter was sent with an attachment, a report documenting traditional cultural properties, cultural landscapes, and sacred sites within...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Ryan.

This document is a Section 106 Tribal Comment Letter concerning the Ground Based Strategic Defense (GBSD) Test Program. The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians provided comments following their review of the Section 106 investigation report and the Draft Environmental Assessment for the GBSD project. In response, refinements in the project design have greatly reduced the extent of ground disturbance planned at Launch Facility 04 (LF-04) and within the historic Native American village of Lospe...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Ryan.

This document is a Section 106 Tribal Consultation Letter between the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians (SYBCI) and Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) concerning the Ground Based Strategic Defense (GBSD) Program. VAFB is responding to the tribe’s concerns expressed in the letter dated March 18th, 2021. Responses within the letter correspond with the same order and numbering as the comments previously offered by the Tribe.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Ryan.

This document is a Section 106 Consultation Letter between the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians (SYBCI) and Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB). In a previous letter dated from 18 March, 2021, the Tribe provided comments that pointed to a shortcoming in an inventory of the broadest range of cultural resources within the Area of Potential Effects (APE). In response, VSFB expanded their inventory effort to include: traditional cultural properties, cultural landscapes, sacred sites, and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Ryan.

This document is a Section 106 Tribal Concurrence Letter between the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians (SYBCI) and Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB). The Tribe had previously responded to VSFB with requests for inclusion of inventory of the broadest range of cultural resources within the Area of Potential Effects (APE). At this time, the Tribe concurs that the effort to identify the broadest range of cultural resources is complete.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kenneth Kahn.

This document is a Section 106 Official Tribal Comment Letter from the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians regarding the Ground Based Strategic Defense (GBSD) Test Program. The Tribe requests 1) review of the Native America Grave Protect and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Plan of Action for the GBSD Test Program, 2) inclusion as a signatory on the NAGPRA Plan of Action for the GBSD Test Program, 3) and concurrent development of the NAGPRA Plan of Action for the GBSD Test Program and the Memorandum of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Roscoe Loetzerich.

This document is a Section 106 letter initiating consultation with the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians regarding the American Water Grubbing and Vegetation Removal behind Building 856 Project. The purpose of the letter is to solicit comment pertaining to any concerns the Tribe may have related to the impacts of the project on the archaeological resources CA-SBA-923 and CA-SBA-3107H.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Roscoe Loetzerich.

This document is a SYBCI transmittal letter to the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians for the Vandenberg Tracking Station (VTS) Infrastructure Improvements Project. Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) determined that the VTS Infrastructure Improvements Project is an undertaking subject to compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, and will comply with Section 106 using the implementing regulations [36 CFR Part 800]. With this letter and its attachment...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Josh Smallwood.

This document is a Section 106 transmittal letter to the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians (SYBCI) from Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) regarding the Facility 1810 Sewer System Replacement Project. The letter introduces the project and 1) provides a brief description of the work to be performed, 2) identifies and provides pertinent information about the two resources identified, archaeological site CA-SBA-1060 and Facility 1810, within the project Area of Potential Effect, and lastly, 3)...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Ryan.

This document is a SYBCI transmittal letter to the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians for the B7, B10, and K5 Feeder Lines Replacement Project (Project). Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) determined that the Project was an undertaking subject to compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, and would comply with Section 106 using the implementing regulations [36 CFR Part 800]. With this letter and its attachment (Identification of Historic Properties:...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Roscoe Loetzerich.

This document is a letter initiating Section 106 with the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians (SYBCI) for the Replace Overhead Transmission B6 Power Line Project. The letter provides a brief justification and description of the undertaking and details the effort to identify historic properties. Specifically the letter 1) delineates the Area of Potential Effect (APE), 2) details the archaeological resources found within 1/4 mile of the project area and more specifically that fall within the...

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This letter constitutes continuing consultion between the Space Launch Delta 30 (SLD 30) of the United States Space Force at Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) and the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians (Tribe), pursuant to Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), regarding the proposed US Army Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) II Test Program. SLD 30 carried out a reasonable and good-faith cultural resources investigation that fulfills federal agency responsiblities...

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This document is a SYBCI transmittal letter regarding the 30th Space Wing of the United States Air Force's proposal to grant a temporary construction easement to the Union Pacific Railroad for the purposes of reconstructing the Narlon Bridge as it crosses San Antonio Creek on North Base at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB). VAFB determined that the temporary construction easement grant is a federal action subject to compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as...

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This document is a letter initiating Section 106 consultation with the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians regarding the D1 Power Line Replacement Project.

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This document is the transmittal letter to the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act After-Action report associated with data recovery excavations at CA-SBA-512 as part of the Sentinel Test Program (Ground Base Strategic Deterrent [GBSD]).