Between August 22 and 26, 2022, Brockington and Associates, Inc. (Brockington) conducted a cultural resources survey of the Tallulah Lodge-Terrora 115kV Rebuild corridor in Rabun County, Georgia. The due diligence survey investigations were carried out on behalf of Georgia Power Company (GPC) by personnel qualified under 36 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 61. Survey tasks were completed in accordance with criteria defined under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966 (as amended) (Public Law 93-291) and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s revised 36 CFR Part 800. Background research and field survey were used to identify potentially significant resources within the project’s Area of Potential Effects (APE). We defined the archaeological APE as the entire project corridor. We defined the architectural APE as the project corridor and 0.25-mile radius around the project corridor. Figures 1.1 and 1.2 present the location of the project corridor.
Most of the project corridor is within the existing transmission line corridor. However, there is an approximately 785-foot-long new location section along Y Camp Road. The proposed rebuild of the Tallulah Lodge-Terrora 115kV line will directly impact soils that will be mechanically graded, cut, and filled in some areas of the project corridor. Secondary impacts that may occur from heavy machinery traveling within the project corridor. Types of impacts may include the removal and relocation of soils, clearing of vegetation, filling activities, temporary increases in erosional outwash or redeposition, and visual changes to the viewshed.
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