FIELD DOCUMENTS - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

r ESA Land Management J Ray Weiss January 2009 Page 8 permits for scientific excavation by qualified archaeologists.NAGPRA assigns ownership of Native American graves found on federal land to their direct descendants or to a culturally affiliated tribe or organization and provides for repatriation of human remains and funerary items to identified Native American descendants. State CEQA mandates that significant impacts to historic resources be determined during the project planning stage. Guidelines for determining if a resource is historically significant,and would cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of the resource are provided in Section 15064.5. CEQA refers to the California Register for guidance in determining if a property is significant.The California register defines what constitutes a significant historic property and contains guidelines and criteria for determining the significance at the local level. For the purposes of CEQA,a historical resource is a resource listed in,or determined eligible for listing in the California Register of Historical Resources. When a project may impact an archaeological site, it needs to be determined whether the site is a historical resource, which is defined as: Any object, building, structure, site, area, place, record, or manuscript which a lead agency determines to be historically significant,or is significant in the architectural,engineering,scientific,economic,agricultural,educational, social,political or cultural annals of California may be considered an historical resource. Generally,the resource shall be considered by the lead agency to be"historically significant"if the resource meets the criteria for listing on the California Register of Historical Resources 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,a historical resource must be eligible at the local,state or national level under one(or more)of four criteria,and retain integrity.Integrity is the authenticity of a historical resource's physical identity evidenced by the survival of characteristics that existed during the resource's period of significance. Historic 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.