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5.ENVIRONMENTAL CHECKLIST MOUNTAIN HOUSE NEIGHBORHOODS K AND L INITIAL STUDY 5.CULTURAL RESOURCES meets the criteria for listing in the California Register of Historical Resources (Public Resources Code Section 5024.1,Title 14 CCR, Section 4852) including the following: (A) Is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of California's history and cultural heritage; (B) Is associated with the lives of persons important in our past; (C) Embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type,period,region,or method of construction,or represents the work of an important creative individual,or possesses high artistic values;or (D) Has yielded,or may be likely to yield,information important in prehistory or history. For the California Register of Historical Resources, an historical resource must be eligible at the local,state, or national level under one (or more)of the four criteria, and retain integrity. Integrity is the authenticity of an historical resource's physical identity evidenced by the survival of characteristics that existed during the resource's period of significance. Historical resources must meet one of the criteria of significance and retain enough of their historic character or appearance to be recognizable as historical resources and to convey the reasons for their significance. Integrity is evaluated with regard to the retention of location, design, setting, materials,workmanship,feeling, and association. Archaeological Studies in Project Area A total of 10 archaeological studies were completed within the area of the overall Mountain House community between 1990 and 2001. The information gathered during these investigations is maintained by the Central California Information Center of the California Historical Resources Information System. From these e earlier studies, 16 prehistoric and historic period cultural resources were identified within the boundaries of SPIT. However, none of these resources was found to be eligible for listing in the California Register(Peak&Associates, Inc., 2003). During the field reconnaissance undertaken in April, May, and June 2003, three newly identified cultural resources were discovered and two of the previously identified resources were re-recorded because the original recorders of these resources did not have complete access to the sites. The other 14 previously identified resources were spot-checked to see if conditions had changed enough to warrant re-recordation, but they had not. The three newly identified cultural resources were all located south of Byron Road and south of the project site. Two sites within the boundaries of Neighborhoods K and L.were studied further. One included a potential midden site and the other included a potential"Indian Burial Mound." Thirty-one test backhoe trenches were excavated to address the potential midden site and no concentration of artifacts was found. Other indicators of cultural activity,such as culturally modified sediment, also were not found. Based on the results of the test trenches,the archaeologist did not find e (Wil i) 5-68