Consultation (Investigation Type)

PROJECT Gregory Waselkov.

The LaPointe-Krebs House or "Old Spanish Fort" (archaeological site 22JA526) in Pascagoula, Mississippi, is evidently the oldest standing structure in that state. Archaeological test excavations in and adjacent to the house in 1979, 1992, and 1994, 1995, and 2010 have revealed a complex sequence of colonial-period occupation and building on that site. Apart from some sporadic prehistoric occupation during the Middle Woodland period about two millennia ago, the major occupation occurred between...

IMAGE Thomas Guderjan.

This information resource is comprised of large format feature planview and profile maps and selected artifact illustrations from the Blue Creek Central Precinct, Ditched Fields, Chan Cahal, and Kin Tan

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven Dorland.

This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project is grounded in a partnership with the Mississaugas of the Credit First nation to apply community-based archaeology in southern Ontario that focusses on learning about learning. There are two main goal of this project. First, we plan to bring together Indigenous methodologies and archaeological study to teach youths how to learn ancestral pottery making. This involves the integration...

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This document is a Section 106 transmittal letter to the California State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) seeking concurrence for the Western Range Instrumentation Modernization Program. The letter provides information about the project and presents the Area of Potential Effect (APE). The letter seeks SHPO concurrence for 1) the project APE, and 2) that the project finding of no adverse effect to historic properties is appropriate.

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This document is Section 106 transmittal letter to the California State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) for the Vandenberg Tracking Station (VTS) Low Profile Antenna Construction Project. The letter provides details about the project VAFB Request for SHPO Concurrence for Vandenberg Tracking Station (VTS) Low Profile Antenna Construction Project. The letter discusses details associated with this high level priority project for the tenant organization of the 148th Space Operations Squadron...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Vandenberg Air Force Base.

This document is a Section 106 transmittal letter from Vandenberg Air Force Base to the California State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) for the Vandenberg Tracking Station (VTS) Installation of Security Fence Concrete Footing project. The letter provides 1) a description of the project and presents that Area of Potential Effect (APE), and 2) the results of the identification of historic properties. The letter seeks concurrence from the SHPO for 1) a determination that the project will not...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Vandenberg Air Force Base.

This document is a Section 106 transmittal letter from Vandenberg Air Force Base to the California State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO). The letter provides the purpose and a description of the Interim Remediation Project for Site 8C project. It also presents the Area of Potential Effect (APE) and the effort that was expended to identify historic properties. The only property identified is the archaeological site CA-SBA-678. The letter seeks SHPO concurrence for 1) the project APE, 2) the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Daryl G. Atwood.

This document is a subject point paper on the Vandenberg Tracking Station Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) (Atch 1), submitted at the request of HQ SAC in response to an inquiry by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Environment, Safety and Occupational Health), Mr Gary Vest. The subject of this point paper is Historical Preservation compliance for the Vandenberg Tracking Station (VTS) Wastewater Treatment Plant. This point paper is intended to give background concerning...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Daryl G. Atwood.

This document is a letter from the Department of the Air Force to the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) requesting concurrence with a No Adverse Effect Determination for the construction of the Waste Water Treatment Plant at the Vandenberg Tracking Station on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, in accordance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. The project will construct a new waste water treatment plant next to an existing one, which it will replace. One...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. McPhee.

This document is a Section 106 transmittal letter to the California State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) regarding the Small ICBM and Peacekeeper Rail Garrison Test Programs at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB). The letter briefly describes the undertaking and includes an attached report that discusses the archaeological survey and testing project that was conducted in support of the undertaking. The report ultimately supports the opinion of VAFB that rather evaluating each individual...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Orville G. Robertson.

This document is a letter initiating the Section 106 process with the California State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) regarding the Removal and Reuse of Aboveground Liquid Oxygen Tank Stored at SLC-10 project. The letter explains that the tank was not originally a part of SLC-10 and therefore does not contribute to the national register eligibility of the National Historic Landmark (NHL). Therefore, the letter seeks SHPO concurrence for that determination that the removal of the tank will...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Orville G. Robertson.

This document is an internal Air Force (AF) memo to Civil Engineering distributed as part of the ongoing Section 106 consultation regarding the comments pertaining to the draft historic preservation plan (HPP) associated with the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison Test Programs. The memo notes that the comments were also submitted to the California State Historic Preservation Office and that the AF is in the process of organizing a meeting among interested parties as part of finalizing the HPP.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rickell D. Knoll.

Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) requests for California State Historic Preservation Office concurrence for the buried communication cable to a mobile support van near Point Pedernales as part of the Space Shuttle construction program. In view of the minor nature of anticipated impacts to buried cultural resources at CA-SBA-212 and CA-SBA-1145, VAFB has recommended 1) construction monitoring at both sites, 2) determination of antiquity of occupation for three loci tests at CA-SBA-212, and 3)...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rickell D. Knoll.

This document is the Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) Transmittal Letter seeking concurrence from the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation for the Mobile Support Van Skyscreen Project. This letter includes the selected alternative cable route that was chosen for the installation of a buried communication cable in order to serve a mobile support van. The cable would be buried in an existing unpaved roadway. VAFB is seeking concurrence that the proposed mitigation measures are acceptable and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Ryan.

This document is a Section 106 Transmittal Letter for the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) about the San Antonio Creek Restoration. 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. Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) seek concurrence from the SHPO office that 1) VAFB delineated the Area of Potential Effects...

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)....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Ryan.

This document is a letter transferring ownership of a fossil fish from Vandenberg Air Force Base to the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. The fossil is an impression on an approximately 9 x 9 x 3-inch block of white chalky shale from Monterey shale formation.

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This document is a transmittal letter for the Section 106 consultation with the California State Historic Preservation Office for the Space Launch Complex-Three East Conversion, Vulcan Centaur Program, Vandenberg AFB. The letter 1) synthesizes the project activities, 2) briefly discusses the resources considered as part of the cultural resource analysis of the project, and 3) seeks concurrence for the project area of potential effect; the determination that although no sites fall within the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles Hansen.

This document is a Section 106 SHPO Transmittal Letter for the Facility 8337 Paint Booth Removal Project. The purpose of this project is the renovation of Facility 8337 to remove paint booths and accommodate the remodel of the building for administrative office space. Vandenberg Air Force Base seeks concurrence from the State Historic Preservation Office that 1) the Area of Potential Effect (APE) is adequately delineated, 2) Facility 8337 does not meet National Register of Historic Places...

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 Charles Hansen.

This document is a Section 106 State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) Transmittal Letter for the US Army Range Extended Range Cannon Artillery II Test Program. The project involves the implementation of the Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA II) Test Program on the northern part of Vandenberg Space Force Base. ERCA II is a multi-element, multi-phase test program of the Army’s next generation artillery systems. Major components of the artillery system include the cannon, gun mount,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Ryan.

This document is a Section 106 transmittal letter initiating consultation for the TP-01 Improvements Supporting Future Ballistic Missile Test Launches Project with the California State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO). The letter introduces the project and mentions the associated activities including establishing and maintaining a firebreak; replacing the security perimeter fence; minor repairs to the surface of the concrete pad; and installation of a new heating, ventilation, and air...

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,...