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This document is a report on the Archaeological Investigations in Support of the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Test Program. The purpose of this project is to modernize the United States’ land-based nuclear arsenal and eventually replace the nation’s current Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) system. A portion of development and testing of the new system, named Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD), would take place in California at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County and entail renovation of two existing Minuteman III launch facilities along with myriad other infrastructure improvements. This report inventories all of the archaeological resources that could be affected by the GBSD Test Program, provides the status of each resource’s eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), and evaluates the eligibility for listing in the NRHP of unevaluated archaeological resources as needed. In cases where a significance evaluation was unfeasible, the resource is assumed to be eligible for listing in the NRHP for the purposes of this project only. Lastly, this report assesses the proposed project’s potential to affect all resources determined or assumed to be eligible for the NRHP. A preliminary area of physical impacts and cultural resource study area were delineated to include all GBSD project locations at Vandenberg Air Force Base.

This document is a government generated Section 106 report consisting of a historic property inventory and an assessment of adverse effects associated with the Repair of the Overhead Distribution Line B1 Project. The purpose of the document is to compile any prior or current studies performed in support of the repair of the overhead distribution line B1 project as a single Section 106 report. This report provides the information needed by the California State Historic Preservation Officer to concur on the project findings and determinations for individual resources as presented by the Vandenberg Air Force Base Cultural Resource Manager. The report specifically examines project impacts and/or avoidance strategies for fourteen archaeological sites; CA-SBA-592, -703, -2495, -2883, -2884, -2885, -2886, -2890, -2891, -3211, -3224, -3225, -3227, -3575H.

This document is a government generated Section 106 report consisting of a historic property inventory and an assessment of adverse effects associated with the A5 Powerline Replacement Project. The purpose of the document is to compile any prior or current studies performed in support of the A5 Powerline replacement project as a single Section 106 report. This report provides the information needed by the California State Historic Preservation Officer to concur on the project findings and determinations for individual resources as presented by the Vandenberg Air Force Base Cultural Resource Manager. The report specifically examines project impacts and/or avoidance strategies for twenty-seven archaeological sites; CA-SBA-592, -702, -775, -776, -1779, -2086, -2569H, -2570, -2571, -2883, -2884, -2885, -2886, -2887, -2888, -2889, -2894, -3213, -3215, -3232, -3348, -3376, -3527H, -3552H, -3560H, -3747, -3748.