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Westlands Water District intertie project, and the Lake Britton archeological project. She also developed her knowledge of historical archeology and the evaluation of historic properties by participating in the Old Sacramento project, directing the nomination of the Main Street Coulterville Historic District to the National Register of Historic Places, and conducting the San Francisco Outfall Historical Research project. Ms. Peak has an excellent reputation for integrating Native American concerns with the goals of cultural resource management. The Newman project resulted in the establish- ment of a deeded Native American cemetery. Volunteer work in Madera County resulted in the legal recognition of Native American access rights to the Sam Patch Cemetery. Ms. Peak has also donated her assistance to the Pit River tribes in documenting cemetery sites in northeastern California. She has trained several Native Americans as surveyors and excavators, employing them on projects throughout northern California. Melinda A. Peak - Field Director. The vice president of the firm, Ms. Peak has charge of company records, acts as field director for survey and archeological test projects, and is responsible for the firm's historical research and evaluation activities. With more than 16 years of field experience, Ms. Peak has been a crew chief and assistant director on a wide range of prehistoric and historic excavations. She has directed laboratory analyses of archeological materials, including those of the historic period. She has also conducted a wide variety of cultural resource assessment activities in California, including documentary research, field surveys, and report preparation. Ms. Peak is a registered professional historian. In 1981, Ms. Peak was a field supervisor for the Corps Merced County Streams Intensive Cultural Resources survey in Merced and Mariposa counties. She has served as field director on two U.S. Forest Service surveys: a 4,130-acre survey in the Six Rivers National Forest and the Hardwood Conversion project for Plumas National Forest. Ms. Peak served as field director for a test excavation of CA-Sac-319 on the American River, organizing fieldwork, directing a crew of six technicians, and preparing the final report for Sacramento County. She was assistant field director for Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Pit 3, 4, 5, FERC-233 project, an intensive resurvey of 3,100 acres in Shasta County. In this capacity, she directed a survey team of five people. During another recent project, Ms. Peak served as field director for test excavations on the Sutter Community Hospital site in Sacramento. She also conducted a study of the Third-Fourth/ P-Q Streets blocks in Sacramento for the PERS building project,supervising test excavations and preparing the final report. In 1987, she completed the survey of and authored the report on the 40-mile Collierville transmission line. She also completed the AT&T Verdi to Rancho Cordova fiber-optic line survey and prepared the final report. With a B.A.in anthropology (University of California, Berkeley, 1976), Ms. Peak has developed a second field of expertise in applied history and has received an M.A. in history at California State University, Sacramento. Her credits as a historical researcher and VI-9