Results of Implementing the Historic Properties Treatment Plan for the Sierrita Pipeline Project, Pima County, Arizona: Volume 2, Data Recovery Investigations
Creators: name: Griset, Suzanne
Publisher: name: SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Arizona Upland Subdivision
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subject: Arizona (State / Territory)
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subject: Sonoran Desert
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subject: Pima (County)
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subject: Sasabe, AZ
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subject: Early Agricultural period
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subject: Rillito Phase
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subject: Rincon Phase
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subject: Colonial Period
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subject: Protohistoric
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subject: Tanque Verde Phase
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subject: Sacaton Phase
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subject: Ceramic Period
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subject: Early Classic Period
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subject: Hohokam
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subject: Huhugam
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subject: Patayan
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subject: Archaic
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subject: Historic
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subject: O'odham
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subject: Late Archaic
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subject: AZ AA:15:208 (ASM)
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subject: AZ AA:15:206 (ASM)
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subject: AZ DD:3:179 (ASM)
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subject: AZ AA:15:209 (ASM)
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subject: AZ DD:6:118 (ASM)
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subject: AZ DD:6:77 (ASM)
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subject: AZ DD:6:133 (ASM)
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subject: AZ AA:15:201 (ASM)
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subject: Archaeological Feature
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subject: Field House
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subject: Inhumation
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subject: Artifact Scatter
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subject: Rock Cluster
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subject: Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
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subject: Lens
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subject: Domestic Structures
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subject: Pit
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subject: Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno
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subject: Storage Pit
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subject: Pit House / Earth Lodge
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subject: Rock Art
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subject: Petroglyph
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subject: Plainware
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subject: Rhyolite
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subject: Redware
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subject: Purple-on-Brown
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subject: Purple-on-Red
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subject: Ceramic
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subject: Chipped Stone
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subject: Mano
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subject: Fauna
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subject: Fire Cracked Rock
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subject: Red-on-Buff
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subject: Ground Stone
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subject: Projectile Point
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subject: Human Remains
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subject: Core
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subject: Macrobotanical
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subject: Red-on-Brown
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subject: Pollen
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subject: Shell
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subject: Buffware
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subject: Basalt
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subject: Tabular Knife
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subject: Obsidian
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subject: Quartzite
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subject: Hammerstone
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subject: metate
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subject: Radiocarbon Dating Analysis
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subject: Artifact Analysis
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subject: Archaeological Overview
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subject: Historic Background Research
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subject: Data Recovery / Excavation
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subject: Records Search / Inventory Checking
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subject: Research Design / Data Recovery Plan
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subject: Site Evaluation / Testing
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description: On July 1, 2014, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) granted Sierrita Gas Pipeline LLC (Sierrita) notice to proceed with the construction of the Sierrita Pipeline Project (the Project), a new natural gas pipeline and appurtenant facilities in Pima County, Arizona, that deliver natural gas from El Paso Natural Gas Company’s existing pipeline system southwest of Tucson to an interconnect point at the U.S.-Mexico border near the town of Sasabe. Concurrent with the construction of the Project was the implementation of a Historic Properties Treatment Plan (HPTP) (Hesse 2014a) for the 25 historic properties (i.e., cultural properties eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places [NRHP]) that had been identified in or within 50 feet of the Project area of potential effects (APE). Some form of treatment was proposed for all of the historic properties to avoid and minimize the Project’s effects on eligible properties, and to mitigate the adverse effects on eligible properties where avoidance was not feasible. Treatment techniques designed to avoid and/or minimize effects included necking the width of the construction corridor, fencing, construction of the pipeline by boring and installing it beneath sites, construction monitoring, and the implementation of construction safeguards along access roads through sites (“road treatment”). Treatment designed to mitigate adverse effects where avoidance was not feasible involved data recovery excavation. Tribal monitors from the San Xavier District of the Tohono O’odham Nation assisted archaeological monitors in the implementation of the HPTP. Unanticipated discoveries during the Project led to the documentation of four new archaeological sites and an extension of the boundaries of a previously recorded archaeological site (AZ DD:6:80 [ASM]) within the APE. The four sites were all determined NRHP eligible and added to the list of sites requiring some form of treatment. The pipeline was placed in service on October 31, 2014. Monitoring of cleanup and restoration activities along the pipeline right-of-way (ROW) continued until November 6, 2014. Protective fencing along access roads on U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge (BANWR) was removed on February 26, 2015, following the completion of road restoration activities. This second volume of the results of implementing the Sierrita Pipeline Project HPTP contains the results of data recovery investigations conducted at nine archaeological sites where avoidance was not feasible. The first volume discusses the archaeological monitoring that occurred during project construction.