Archaeological Resurvey of the Proposed North Terminal Development Fulton County Airport - Brown Field, Fulton County, Georgia

Several pieces of legislation including the Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Executive Order 11593, 1974 Amendments to the Reservoir Salvage Act and 1980 Amendments to the NEPA protect historic, architectural, archaeological and cultural resources. This legislation is linked into a comprehensive policy for historic preservation which orders federal agencies to take the lead in historic preservation. They must ( 1) study land with their jurisdiction to locate properties eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, (2) ensure that such properties are not inadvertently damaged and (3) develop programs to contribute to protection of historic properties on nonfederal land. The compliance process under these laws requires coordination through the State Historic Preservation Officer and his staff which includes historians, architectural historians and professional archaeologists. During the A-1 06 Environmental Review process, the Historic Preservation Officer determines if any properties on or eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places are within the area of potential environmental impact or if a professional cultural resource survey (Phase !Investigation) is needed. In May 2002, SITE, Inc. conducted a resurvey ofthe proposed North Terminal development area on Fulton County Airport- Brown Field, Georgia (Figure 1 ). These investigations were conducted for Kimley-Horn and Associates . The scope of the project included background research and field resurvey of archaeological resources within the proposed development area. Background research was conducted at the State Archaeological Site Files database maintained by the University of Georgia in Athens as well as Fulton County Airport documents. The purpose of the background research was to identify previously identified resources within the proposed project area. The field resurvey consisted of pedestrian reconnaissance of the previously identified resources (Figure 2) in the proposed project area to determine their current state of preservation.