New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 4 - CULTURAL RESOURCES › Chapter 10 - CULTURAL PROPERTIES AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION › Part 15 - STANDARDS FOR SURVEY AND INVENTORY › Section 4.10.15.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A.
"Archaeological investigation"
means the study of archaeological sites,
				isolates and other cultural properties and areas of historic and scientific
				interest including without limitation survey and inventory, examination,
				collection, limited tests, test excavation, excavation and
				monitoring.
B.
"Archaeological records management section"
or
"ARMS"
means
				the entity within the historic preservation division that maintains, in
				cooperation with the museum of Indian arts and culture-laboratory of
				anthropology (MIAC), the statewide archaeological and cultural properties
				databases and associated records and documents pursuant to Section
				18-6-7
				A of the Cultural Properties Act.
C.
"Archaeological site"
or
"site"
means a location where there exists material evidence of
				the past life and culture of human beings in the state. A significant
				archaeological site typically is 50 or more years old. Examples of
				archaeological sites include without limitation campsites, pueblos, homesteads,
				artifact scatters, resource procurement or processing areas, agricultural
				fields, locales with one or more features in association with other cultural
				materials, and locales that have the potential for subsurface features or
				cultural deposits.
D.
"Area
				of potential effect"
or
"APE"
means the geographic area or
				areas within which an undertaking may directly or indirectly cause changes in
				the character or use of a cultural property. The APE is influenced by the scale
				and nature of an undertaking and is different for different kinds of effects
				caused by the undertaking. For archaeological sites the APE typically includes
				all areas involving ground disturbance but may also include areas adjacent to
				the disturbance that may be indirectly affected as a consequence of the
				undertaking. For aboveground historic buildings, structures and other cultural
				properties, the APE often extends beyond the limits of ground disturbance and
				includes visual, vibratory and noise impacts to a building, structure, site,
				district, or cultural landscape and its setting and viewshed. Variation in
				topography, vegetation, and contemporary land use influences the visual impact
				on cultural properties.
E.
"Areas of historic and scientific interest"
means areas lacking surface
				evidence of cultural properties but where there is a high probability of
				finding subsurface material remains and cultural deposits or areas suitable for
				geomorphological or paleoenvironmental study.
F.
"Buffer area"
means an area
				extending 500 meters or 1000 meters in every direction of the edge of the APE
				or project area.
G.
"Collection"
means the removal of material remains from state land,
				whether or not the remains are located within an archaeological site or isolate
				as defined herein.
H.
"Cultural landscape"
means a geographic area including both cultural and
				natural resources associated with a historic event, activity or person or
				exhibiting other cultural or aesthetic values. Landscapes include formally
				designed landscapes, vernacular landscapes, sites and ethnographic
				landscapes.
I.
"Cultural
				property"
or
"cultural resource"
means a structure, place,
				site or object having historic, archaeological, scientific, architectural or
				other cultural significance.
J.
"Excavation"
means displacing, disturbing or moving earth, soil,
				dirt, other deposits or material remains from their current contexts or
				significant orientation in, or on, the ground within the boundaries of an
				archaeological site, isolate or area of historic and scientific interest using
				hand tools or mechanical earth-moving equipment.
K.
"Historic preservation
				division"
or
"HPD"
means the division within the department
				of cultural affairs created pursuant to Section
				18-6-8
				A of the Cultural Properties Act.
L.
"Historic structures and
				buildings"
means structures or buildings that are 50 or more years old
				or properties less that 50 years old that either meet the requirements of
				national register criteria consideration G (properties that have achieved
				significance within the past 50 years) or properties that are likely to meet
				the integrity and significance criteria in 30 CFR 60.4 within 5 years of the
				date of recording.
(1) A historic structure is
				an engineered construction created principally for the conveyance of water,
				natural resources, railroad stock or automobiles and trucks; or an engineered
				construction created principally for the extraction, refinement and
				distribution of natural resources; or an engineered construction created
				principally to support a function other than human shelter. Structures include
				but are not limited to vehicular bridges, railroad bridges, engineered roads
				and highway, tunnels, dams, canals, turbines, pipelines, refineries, stamp
				mills, smelters, dams, power plants, silos, grain elevators or
				locomotives.
(2) A historic
				building is a construction created principally to shelter any form of sustained
				or temporary human activity; or a functional construction created principally
				to provide shelter for goods, animals, machinery or instrumentation. Buildings
				include but are not limited to houses, barns, stables, sheds, garages,
				warehouses, courthouses, city halls, social halls, commercial buildings,
				libraries, factories, mills, train depots, motels, theaters, schools, stores or
				churches.