Fort Benning Military Reservation proposes to construct a heavy maneuver area encompassing almost 8,600 acres for the training of armor soldiers for the restationing of the Armor School from Fort Knox, Kentucky to Fort Benning, Alabama and Georgia. Within this area that is tentatively named “The Good Hope Maneuver Area”, there are five intensive maneuver areas (designated A through E) where Fort Benning hopes that the training will be as unencumbered as possible. Road construction and improvement will also be an aspect of this project. Each road will be contained within a 200 foot wide corridor. Within or intersected by Areas A through E and the proposed roads are 14 National Register eligible archaeological sites. This research design is prepared to address three of these sites (9CE578, 9CE608, and 9CE876) and the mitigative efforts proposed (Figures 1 and 2). This research design, prepared by Panamerican Consultants, Inc. (PCI), is proposed to mitigate the impacts of the construction activities to these three sites.
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