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The Central Coal Cultural Resource study was designed to correlate the cultural data base with the potential adverse impacts related to the development of coal mining.

Class I and II cultural resource inventories were conducted on 3,623,000 acres of BLM and 1,146,000 Forest Service-administered lands. By BLM definition, Class I studies provide a review and synthesis of existing cultural resource information while Class II inventories identify and record, by sampling, all cultural resource sites within a study area. The cultural coal project Class II inventory, representing a vegetative stratification of one percent of the total acreage, located 401 cultural sites.