VAFB-2020-32: Archaeological Investigations in Support of Section 106 Compliance Ground Based Strategic Deterrant Test Program
Creators: name: Volta, Beniamino
name: Connolly, Michael
name: Leonard, Daniel
name: Leard, Daniel
Publisher: name: HDR, Inc.
Year: 2020
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description: This document is a report on the Archaeological Investigations in Support of the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Test Program. The purpose of this project is to modernize the United States’ land-based nuclear arsenal and eventually replace the nation’s current Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) system. A portion of development and testing of the new system, named Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD), would take place in California at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County and entail renovation of two existing Minuteman III launch facilities along with myriad other infrastructure improvements. This report inventories all of the archaeological resources that could be affected by the GBSD Test Program, provides the status of each resource’s eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), and evaluates the eligibility for listing in the NRHP of unevaluated archaeological resources as needed. In cases where a significance evaluation was unfeasible, the resource is assumed to be eligible for listing in the NRHP for the purposes of this project only. Lastly, this report assesses the proposed project’s potential to affect all resources determined or assumed to be eligible for the NRHP. A preliminary area of physical impacts and cultural resource study area were delineated to include all GBSD project locations at Vandenberg Air Force Base.