Archeological site 9FL338 was located, spatially defined and archeologically tested during the original survey of the various southern alignments (see body of this report; especially Figure 17). It is a large site situated on nearly level ground in Vans Valley, within the corridor for all southern alignments. When tested, the site was shown to contain intact Woodland period features with a dense array of artifactual and botanical material. The site was recommended as eligible to the National Register of Historic Places and the DOT then sought to redesign the route to avoid the site. This was done by shifting the corridor to the east, creating about 1300 m of new location right-of-way. Almost all of this new right-of-way is within a 2000 ft wide corridor that was selectively surveyed during the original survey. The DOT had requested that high probability areas within a 2000 ft wide corridor surrounding the preferred alternative be examined, and two sites (9FL346 and 9FL347), both recommended not eligible to the National Register, were discovered and described by the survey (see body of this report). However, the entire new, realigned corridor was not surveyed as part of the 2000 ft wide corridor survey, so the unsurveyed portion, totalling 650 min length and of varying width, was surveyed on March 30, 1998 by SAS archeologists Ron Schoettmer and Dave Rauppius. One site was recorded (Figure 1) and is described below.
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