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• 18. The paleontologist shall develop a mitigation plan and a discovery <br />clause/treatment plan that, when implemented during earth-moving <br />activities in the parcel, shall allow for the recovery and subsequent <br />treatment of any fossil remains and associated specimen and site data <br />uncovered by these activities. <br />19. The paleontologist and a paleontologic construction monitor shall attend a <br />pregrading meeting to explain the monitoring program to grading <br />contractor staff and to develop procedures and lines of communication to <br />be implemented if fossil remains are uncovered by earth-moving activities, <br />particularly when a monitor is not on site. <br />20. Paleontologic monitoring of earth-moving activities (particularly trenching) <br />will be conducted by the monitor on a full-time basis once these activities <br />have exceeded a depth five feet below current grade. Earth-moving <br />activities in areas of the parcel where previously undisturbed strata will be <br />buried but otherwise not disturbed shall not be monitored. Monitoring <br />shall include the inspection of debris piles generated by trenching and <br />other earth-moving activities at depths greater than five feet below current <br />grade. <br />21. If fossil remains are found by the monitor, earth-moving activities will be <br />diverted temporarily around the fossil site until the remains have been <br />recovered and these activities allowed to proceed through the site by the <br />monitor. <br />22. If too few or no fossil remains are found after 50 percent of earth-moving <br />activities in areas of the parcel underlain by a particular rock unit have <br />been completed, monitoring can be reduced or discontinued in the <br />remaining areas of the parcel where underlain by the same rock unit. <br />23. If fossil remains are encountered by earth-moving activities when the <br />monitor is not on site, these activities shall be diverted around the fossil <br />site and the monitor called to the site immediately to recover the remains. <br />24. If fossil remains are found, up to 6,000 pounds (3 tons) of fossiliferous <br />rock shall be recovered from the fossil site and processed to allow for the <br />recovery of smaller fossil remains. Test samples may be recovered from <br />other sampling sites in the rock unit. The total weight of all processed <br />samples from the parcel shall not exceed 6,000 pounds. <br />25. Any recovered fossil remains shall be prepared to the point of <br />identification and identified to the lowest taxonomic level possible by <br />knowledgeable paleontologists. The remains then shall be curated <br />(assigned and labeled with museum repository fossil specimen numbers <br />Resolution No. 2007-42 <br />Page 7 of 11 <br />