An Intensive Cultural Resources Survey of Frontier Communications Corporation’s Proposed Amistad Electric Line Project in Val Verde County, Texas
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Abstract
On 26 October 2017, Horizon Environmental Services, Inc. (Horizon) conducted an intensive cultural resources survey of Frontier Communications Corporation’s (FCC) proposed Amistad Electric Line Project in southeastern Val Verde County, Texas (Project Area). The undertaking will be privately funded and will not require any federal permits. However, it is located on property within the Amistad National Recreation Area, a federal property maintained by the National Park Service (NPS). As the undertaking is located on federal property, it is regulated by the Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA) of 1979 and the Antiquities Act (AA) of 1906. On behalf of FCC, Whitenton Group (Whitenton) contracted with Horizon to conduct the cultural resources survey of the Project Area in compliance with the ARPA and the AA. The purpose of the cultural resources survey was to determine if any archeological sites were located within the Area of Potential Effect (APE) and, if any existed, to determine if the project had the potential to have any adverse impacts on sites listed on or considered eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The investigations were conducted under ARPA Permit No. 17-AMIS-01. The undertaking consists of the removal of old communication poles from within an existing electrical transmission line right-of-way (ROW) within the Amistad National Recreation Area. The APE for the undertaking measures approximately 1.0 miles (1.6 kilometers [km]) long by 30.0 feet (9.1 meters [m]) wide (approximately 4.0 acres). Horizon’s survey efforts resulted in the observation of a solitary chert flake on a landform in the northern extent of the Project Area. An intensive surface inspection on this landform, as well as the excavation of 10 shovel tests in the vicinity of the solitary specimen, failed to document any additional cultural materials at the location. As such, the specimen is considered an isolated find and was not documented as a formal archeological site. Site 41VV1222 is a previously recorded, low-density, prehistoric lithic scatter that is mapped in proximity to the southern extent of the Project Area. Horizon’s survey efforts failed to find any materials associated with the site within the current Project Area. However, supplemental survey efforts conducted by Jack Johnson (Amistad Park Archeologist), who has first-hand knowledge the site’s location, resulted in the reassessment of the site’s sparse deposits as well as an accurate plotting of its location on the landscape. Based on its sparse and surficial nature, the lack of temporally diagnostic implements, and the lack of preserved floral and faunal materials, it is Horizon’s opinion that site 41VV122 is ineligible for inclusion on the NRHP and that no additional investigations are warranted on the site in connection with the current undertaking. Based on the results of the cultural resources survey, it is Horizon’s opinion that the undertaking will have no adverse effect on any significant cultural resources listed on or considered eligible for listing on the NRHP within the APE. Horizon therefore recommends that FCC be allowed to proceed with the development of the Project Area relative to the jurisdiction of the ARPA and AA.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".