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Vantage to Pomona Heights Chapter 4 230 kV Transmission Line Project FEIS Environmental Consequences PAGE 4-253 4.11 CULTURAL RESOURCES AND NATIVE AMERICAN CONCERNS 4.11.1 Methods and Impact Types 4.11.1.1 Analysis Methods The impact assessment methods used in this section are consistent with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Washington State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA), and Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), the principal federal law protecting cultural resources. Under 36 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 800, the regulations implementing Section 106, federal agencies are encouraged to coordinate compliance with Section 106 and NEPA (36 CFR Part 800.8(a)(1)). Under both NEPA and Section 106, the process entails identifying cultural resources potentially impacted by a project, determining the impacts of that project, and identifying measures to avoid, reduce, or otherwise mitigate those impacts. The results of the first step, identifying cultural resources known to exist near each Action Alternative for the Vantage to Pomona Heights 230 kilovolt (kV) Transmission Line Project (Project), were presented in Section 3.11 and in Tables 3.11-2 and 3.11-3. Under Section 106, a federal agency must consider the effects of its undertakings on historic properties (properties that are listed in or eligible to the National Register of Historic Places [National Register]). Cultural resources that are not eligible to the National Register may also be considered under one or more of other cultural resource authorities (e.g., Archaeological Resources Protection Act; Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act; American Indian Religious Freedom Act; and Executive Order 13007, Indian Sacred Sites). For this analysis, resources that are listed in or eligible to the Washington Heritage Register are also considered. The National Register is a list of the nation's historically significant properties determined to be worthy of preservation, although not all properties worthy of preservation are listed in the National Register. To be considered eligible to the National Register, resources must meet one or more of four criteria established by the Secretary of the Interior in 36 CFR Part 60.4: • Are associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of history; • Are associated with the lives of persons significant in the past; • Embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, represent the work of a master, possess high artistic value, or represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or • Have yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. To be listed in, or determined eligible for listing in, the National Register not only must a cultural resource meet one or more of the four criteria, it must also possess integrity. Integrity is defined as the authenticity of a resource’s prehistoric or historic identity based on the survival of physical characteristics that existed during its period of use. The National Register recognizes seven aspects of integrity: location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association. Integrity of location means that the resource has not been moved from its historical location. Integrity of design, materials, and workmanship mean that the resource’s original building materials, plan, shape, and design elements remain intact. Integrity of setting means that the surrounding landscape has changed very little since the resource’s period of importance. Integrity of feeling and association means the resource retains a link to an earlier time and place and is able to evoke that era.