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CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY KITTITAS COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS - NELSON SIDING ROAD CULTURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY & MONITORING Statement of Work & Cost Proposal Central Washington Anthropological Survey A. STATEMENT OF WORK Kittitas County Public Works is planning developement along Nelson Siding Road in the upper county. Located approximately six miles west of Cle Elum beside Interstate -90, the project area extends within a 4.36 mile, 60 -foot wide right-of-way (ROW). The total project area covers approximately 32 acres. Project activities will not leave the ROW. The project is funded with County Road Administration Board (CRAB), Rural Arterial Program (RAP), and local county resources. Construction activities will disturb the ground surface of the project carea along and within the current ROW for Nelson Siding Road. These activities include clearing, grading, and excavation disturbances. Development of the project may adversely affect documented cultural resources and/or, cultural resources not identified in the project Area of Potential Effect (APE). As the project is funded by Washington State programs, it must be compliant with the Washington State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA), Washington State Executive Order 05-05, and applicable Revised Code(s) of Washington. This work statement and cost proposal is presented by Central Washington Anthropological Survey (CWAS), a cultural resources conservation team of Central Washington University (CWU). CWAS offers conservation support to aid Kittitas County Public Works in meeting cultural resources regulatory compliance requirements. CWAS professional archaeologists, Tucker Orvald, M.S., Shane Scott, M.S, and additional staff members will provide cultural resource management services. Mr. Orvald will act as Principal Investigator (P.I.) for the project. All research, field survey, construction monitoring, and final reports of findings, as described below, will be supervised and conducted in the field and the office by a professional archaeologist (having at least a Master's Degree in the fields of archaeology, cultural resource management, or anthropology, with substantive field experience). CWAS personnel meet the standards of the Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation (DAHP), as well as the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Archaeology (36CFR800).