Thanx for your reply Paul:) I just sent an update to the list so everyone
will understand how this is being allowed to happen:)
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Mohler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: Huntsville, Alabama; Human burials in ROW of Weatherly Road
Extension
> Dan,
>
> It may not fully escape Section 106 review if there are federal permits
> involved and how the permit areas are defined (i.e. individual vs.
> nationwide). In NC, there are numerous DOT projects that one would think
> are federally funded, but are not. Section 106, however, kicks in because
> of the federal permits involved. In the Alabama scenario, if there are no
> permits and there are no federal funds, then the only recourse might be
> based on current state legislation to which I would not be able to speak.
>
> Paul J. Mohler
> NCDOT Archaeologist
>
>>From: Dan Allen <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Huntsville, Alabama; Human burials in ROW of Weatherly Road
>>Extension
>>Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 08:30:28 -0500
>>
>>Hello to the List:)
>>
>>Is anyone on the list, professional or avocational, familiar with this
>>project? From what I have been told by a hotbed of local Native Americans
>>and avocational archaeologists, a prehistoric cemetery (perhaps Archaic?)
>>was bulldoxed into near Huntsville, Alabama during a road project that
>>will connect with Huntsville's southern bypass, the Weatherly Road
>>Extension. While being permitted to connect with a federally-funded road
>>(the Southern Bypass), the Weatherly Road Extension is not federally
>>funded and thus escapes Section 106.
>>
>>The natives are telling me that Alabama cemetery legislation allows
>>landowners to indiscriminately disturb Native American sites and
>>cemeteries on their own property with no violation of the law. If this is
>>the case SHAME-SHAME. Is there not something we as professionals can do
>>to help end this type of shameless and immoral behavior?
>>
>>Dan Allen
>>Cumberland Research Group, Inc.
>>and
>>GRA @ The Center for Historic Preservation
>>at Middle Tennessee State University
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