Common use of IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION OF HISTORIC PROPERTIES Clause in Contracts

IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION OF HISTORIC PROPERTIES. A. In planning for the Undertaking, DoD has conducted extensive surveys and evaluations, and, in consultation with the Guam and CNMI SHPO, ACHP, NPS, Consulting Parties, applied the results to the siting/lay down of individual projects to best avoid effects to historic properties. DoD has provided documentation of these efforts to the Signatories and Invited Signatories. Appendix D provides an overview of completed surveys, areas of known sensitivity, and identified historic properties. B. DoD surveys and evaluations have focused on project-specific APEs, defined consistent with 36 CFR §800.16(d) to include those portions of the islands of Guam and Tinian subject to direct and indirect effects of projects included in the Undertaking, based on the current FEIS as shown and described in Appendix E. DoD has also established APEs for cumulative effects, which include the entire islands of Guam and Tinian. In the course of supplemental reviews pursuant to Stipulations IV and V of this PA, the Signatories and Invited Signatories may request that additional project-specific APEs be defined consistent with 36 CFR §800.16(d) to address potential direct and indirect effects of individual projects. C. In addition to the archaeological and architectural surveys and evaluations noted in Stipulation IV.A above, DoD has completed extensive archival research and oral history studies and interviews, and has identified historic properties and culturally important natural resources such as the ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, nunu, da’ok, dukduk, ifit trees, and medicinal plants. D. For the majority of project areas included within the Undertaking, DoD has provided documentation of identification efforts and determinations of eligibility to the applicable SHPO, consistent with 36 CFR §800.4(b)(2) and §800.