Additional Phase I Cultural Resources Investigations Associated with the Elba Express Pipeline Project (HP-060217-004), Screver, Burke, Jefferson, Wilkes, and Elbert Counties, Georgia

This letter report presents the results of additional Phase I cultural resources investigations completed as part of the proposed Elba Express Pipeline Project, which currently is undergoing review by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The examined areas expand upon the previously reported on archeological investigations that were performed in 2006 (Eberwine et al. 2006; Figure 1). The additional survey areas are limited to six proposed facility locations and a single access road (Figures 2-7). This document provides the results of the supplemental field studies; these data are provided for your review and comment. These investigations were performed in January of 2008. As a result of this Phase I cultural resources survey, no new cultural resources were identified. A summary of the field methods utilized to complete this investigation, as well as a description of each survey item, is presented below. Information pertaining to the natural, prehistoric, and historic settings of the project region, as well as a review of the previous archeological investigations completed in the general vicinity of these seven project items, is contained in the previously submitted and reviewed cultural resources survey report entitled Results of the 2006 Phase I Cultural Resources Survey and Archeological Inventory of the Proposed Elba Express Pipeline Project in Effingham, Screven, Jenkins, Emanuel, Burke, Jefferson, Glascock Warren, McDuie, W lkes, Elbert and Hart Counties, Georgia. (Eberwine et al. 2006).