Specifications include, but are not limited to: • Identify and review archaeological and historical resource documentation pertinent to the project area to determine the types of cultural resources present, their chronological associations, locational patterning, and other relevant findings. • Prepare a summary of the area’s prehistoric and historic archaeology based on the findings of the literature review and other background research. The overview would identify the chronological, functional, and locational dimensions of the project area’s archaeological record. It would also analyze recovered cultural data and evaluate the significance of archaeological sites occurring in the project area. • Conduct cultural resources field assessment surveys of the project area using both surface and subsurface testing techniques to locate, identify, and evaluate the significance of cultural resources occurring in the project area. • Laboratory processing and analysis as needed. • Prepare identification survey report that contains enough information to permit DOT&PF to make an informed decision and/or finding and is presented in such a manner that an outside party can understand the basis for that decision or finding; data backup. Recovered cultural materials require appropriate documentation/forms for curation. • Response within 24 hours upon notification of the DOT&PF’s needs for assessment, survey, and/or mitigation in an Inadvertent Discovery situation; immediately notify DOT&PF in the event an Inadvertent Discovery occurs during execution of consultant duties. • Prepare draft initiation and findings letters for DOT&PF to send to SHPO and consulting parties. Assist with responding to any comments received from SHPO or consulting parties during the consultation process.
