Undeveloped Area Near Boniface Gate, JBER, Cultural Resources Study, United States Air Force Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) proposed to include a 130-acre property located northeast of the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) Boniface Gate as part of a land-swap under the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, Section 2851, Land Conveyance program. The proposed project qualified as an undertaking under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), U.S. Code (USC) Title 54, Section 306108 (54 USC 306108), as the project includes federal lands; therefore, an identification-phase cultural resources survey of the project area was planned and completed in 2014 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), on behalf of the 673d Civil Engineer Squadron, Conservation Section, contracted Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Jacobs) to perform a cultural resources survey of the property, designated as the Area of Potential Effect (APE) in this report.