Tonopah Test Range (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text American Indian Writers Subgroup, Consolidated Group of Tribes and Organizations.

The resource document was produced in response to the preparation of an LEIS for the Nellis Air Force Range Renewal, Nevada. The consultation focused specifically on the proposed action and alternatives concerning the future renewal of the NAFR. However, the present CGTO's response to this consultation is not limited to the LEIS, but also integrates relevant recommendations and insights made by Indian people based on previous and existing federal projects in which American Indians participated.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald L. Reno. Lonnie C. Pippin.

Moody Dune, 26Ny4844, is a small lithic scatter situated on a low sand dune in Cactus Flat on the Tonopah Test Range, Nye County, Nevada. Surface co 11 ect ion, subsurface scrapes, and a 1x2 meter test pit yielded a total of 301 artifacts and indicate that the site is a single task locality where bifaces were made from tool stone of local origin. Moody Dune site dates to within the last 1500 years of human occupation in the area.

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Boundary description for the TTR.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Stephen R. Durand.

The Department of Energy (DOE) has proposed to develop a 2.92 km2 area on the east side of the Antelope Lake playa in Cactus Flat on the Tonopah Test Range, Nevada. Additionally, two small areas in low hills to the east are proposed as camera station locations.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurie Walsh.

Sandia National Laboratories requested an archaeological reconnaissance from the Desert Research Institute (DRI) to survey five areas on the Tonopah Test Range. These areas consist of a small add on to the FULL CLIP Extension, the FULL CLIP Borrow Pit and access road, and Contraves 49S and Contraves 49N (Figures 1-4). Site 26NY7638 (Figure 2) was located on the access road; this site is comprised of an isolated chert flake and has been fully recorded. No further archaeological work is necessary...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alvin R. McLane.

Sandia National Laboratories requested an archaeological reconnaissance from the Desert Research Institute (DRI) to survey three areas on the Tonopah Test Range associated with the FULL CLIP and INITIAL SCORE programs (Figures 1, 2 & 3). An extension of the FULL CLIP program is located 1.6 miles east-southeast of Station 13. The survey of a fiber optics and buried cables route is six miles along the Cable Trench Road from the CP to Station 13. The INITIAL SCORE program consists of a 1.95 mile...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alvin R. McLane.

A maintenance and administrative location known as Full Clip is required on Tonopah Test Range (TTil) covering about 91.82 acres (Figure 1). The project area is seven miles southeast of the Main Gate and is accessed from Avenue 13. Sandia National Laboratories has requested an archaeological survey by the Desert Research Institute (DRI) through the Department of Energy (DOE). The survey was conducted on September 24, 1990 and a total of four small sites were recorded. These sites consist of an...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Janis Klimowicz.

A preactivity survey of the proposed expansion of the Sandia National Laboratories explosive shipping and receiving building in area 9 was conducted. This survey was requested to identify any cultural resources that may exist in the proposed expansion area, and to evaluate the potential for adverse effects to those cultural resources resulting from the developmental activities. The area had not been previously surveyed for cultural materials, so the area was subject to a cultural resources...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Janis Klimowicz.

This survey was requested to identify any cultural resources that may exist in the proposed placement area. and to evaluate the potential for adverse effects to those cultural resources resulting from the developmental activities. The area had not been previously surveyed for cultural materials. so the area was subject to a cultural resource reconnaissance. For the most part, the proposed communications line follows along existing roadways in undisturbed areas. One site was located during the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gregory H. Henton. Dan Amick.

The Department of Energy wishes to obtain archeological clearance to construct an instrument site approximately 8.6 km (5.4 miles) from existing instrument sites in the southeast portion of Cactus Flat. The areas to be affected included an instrument site pad about 90 by 90 m (295 by 295 feet) in size, and a buried 8.6 km utilities alignment.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lonnie C. Pippin.

The U. S. Air Force proposes to construct three, 30 x 30 m (100 x 100 ft), gravel facility pads for P-69 systems on the Tonopah Test Range. These pads wIII house 7.6 to 24.4 m (25 - 80 ft) high antennae and other support equipment. They are designated P-69W (lat 37° 34' 56", long. 116° 41' 18"), P-69C (lat 37° 34' 31 ",long. 116° 34' 20"), and P-69E (lat 37° 34' 53", long. 116° 27' 16"). The pads are all located immediately adjacent to existing roads.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lynn Hatzenbuehler.

Lockheed Martin proposes development of a borrow pit. The borrow pit is adjacent to an existing road, thus, the APE is defined as the project area.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Susanne J. Rowe.

Nellis Air Force Base proposes a right-of-way for an underground power line. The Area of Potential Effect (APE) includes the 50-foot wide right-of-way and a buffer margin for a total of 14 acres.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald L. Reno.

A class III cultural resources reconnaissance of a water line between a BLM well and the Tonopah Test Range Man Camp, Nye County, Nevada.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John W. Hohmann.

The results of this survey is the first attempt to create such a model which attempts to empirically identify, measure, analyze, and then interpret the cultural resources discovered within a portion of the south-central Great Basin region. This survey will be undertaken within an ethnoarchaeological approach.