Between September 12 and 24, 1996, R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates, Inc., performed a Phase I cultural resources survey and inventory of the proposed 8.15 km (5.06 mi) Southern Natural Gas Company 16 in O.D. Brunswick Loop Line Expansion project pipeline corridor. This new pipeline will originate at approximate Mile Post 7.142 in Jones County, Georgia, and it will terminate at approximate Mile Post 12.206 in Twiggs County, Georgia; it will loop the existing 12 in O.D. Southern Natural Gas Company pipeline. Survey and inventory was conducted within the proposed project right-of-way and the existing pipeline corridor. In addition, each associated access road, expanded workspace, and contractor warehouse facility was examined for evidence of significant cultural resources. Field work included pedestrian survey, visual reconnaissance, and shovel testing along survey transects spaced 15 to 30 m (49.2 to 98.4 ft) apart. Additional shovel tests were excavated within the beds of the associated access roads wherever a potential to contain cultural material was perceived and/or visibility was poor. Only two cultural resources loci were identified as a result of this inventory. Both of these loci (A-1 and A2) were characterized as isolated finds dating from the prehistoric period. Each locus was evaluated as not significant applying the National Register of Historic Places criteria for evaluation (36 CFR 60.4 [a-d]); no additional testing of Locus A-1 and Locus A-2 or of the proposed Southern Natural Gas Company 16 in O.D. Brunswick Loop Line Expansion is recommended.
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