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Northeast Supply Enhancement CULTURAL RESOURCES – RESOURCE REPORT 4 - Williams has worked to significantly minimize impacts on existing cultural resources. This page intentionally left blank. NORTHEAST SUPPLY ENHANCEMENT PROJECT RESOURCE REPORT 4 – CULTURAL RESOURCES SUMMARY OF FILING INFORMATION Data INFORMATION Found in Section Sources1 Full FERC Filing Requirements 1. Resource Report 4 must contain: (i) Documentation of the applicant's initial cultural resources consultation, including consultations with Native Americans and other interested persons (if appropriate); i. See Volumes 3 and 4 (ii) Overview and Survey Reports, as appropriate; ii. See Appendix 4D and 4E (iii) Evaluation Report, as appropriate; D iii. See Appendix 4D and 4E (iv) Treatment Plan, as appropriate; and iv. See Appendix 4B and 4C (v) Written comments from State Historic Preservation v. See Volumes 3 and 4 Officer(s) (SHPO), Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (THPO), as appropriate, and applicable land-managing agencies on the reports in paragraphs (f)(1)(i) of this section. 2. Initial filing requirements. The initial application must include the documentation of initial cultural resource consultation, the Overview and Survey Reports, if required, and written comments from SHPOs, THPOs and land-managing agencies, if available. The initial cultural resources consultations should establish the need for surveys. If surveys are deemed necessary by the consultation with the SHPO/THPO, the survey report must be filed with the application. (i) If the comments of the SHPOs, THPOs, or land- See Volume 3,Volume 4, management agencies are not available at the time the D Section 4.6, Appendix 4D, application is filed, they may be filed separately, but they and Appendix 4E must be filed before a final certificate is issued. (ii) If landowners deny access to private property and certain areas are not surveyed, the unsurveyed area must be identified by mileposts, and supplemental surveys or evaluations shall be conducted after access is granted. In such circumstances, reports, and treatment plans, if necessary, for those inaccessible lands may be filed after a certificate is issued. 3. The Evaluation Report and Treatment Plan, if required, for the entire project must be filed before a final certificate is issued. (i) The Evaluation Report may be combined in a single synthetic report with the Overview and Survey Reports if the SHPOs, THPOs, and land-management agencies allow See Volume 3, Volume 4, and if it is available at the time the application is filed. D Appendix 4D, and Appendix (ii) In preparing the Treatment Plan, the applicant must consult 4E with the Commission staff, the SHPO, and any applicable THPO and land-management agencies. (iii) Authorization to implement the Treatment Plan will occur only after the final certificate is issued. i NORTHEAST SUPPLY ENHANCEMENT PROJECT RESOURCE REPORT 4 – CULTURAL RESOURCES SUMMARY OF FILING INFORMATION Data INFORMATION Found in Section Sources1 4. Applicant must request privileged treatment for all material filed with the Commission containing location, character, and All privileged and confidential ownership information about cultural resources in accordance material will be treated in with §388.112 of this chapter. The cover and relevant pages or D accordance with the rules portions of the report should be clearly labeled in bold lettering: outlined. “CONTAINS PRIVILEGED INFORMATION—DO NOT RELEASE.” 5. Except as specified in a final Commission order, or by the Construction will not begin Director of the Office of Energy Projects, construction may not D until all reports and plans begin until all cultural resource reports and plans have been have been approved. approved. Additional Information Often Missing and Resulting in Data Requests 1. Identify the project APE in terms of direct or indirect effects on D See Section 4.4 known cultural resources. 2. Provide a project map with mileposts, clearly showing boundaries of all areas surveyed (ROW, extra work areas, access roads, etc.). Ensure mileposts are marked, and survey D See Appendix 4A corridor widths are clearly specified, and clearly indicate where survey has not yet been completed. 3. Provide documentation of consultation with SHPOs, THPOs, See Volumes 3, 4 and Table and applicable land-managing agencies regarding the need for D 4.8-1 and required extent of cultural resource surveys. 4. Provide a narrative summary of overview results, cultural resource surveys completed, identified cultural resources, and D Section 4.6. any cultural resource issues. 5. Provide a project-specific ethnographic analysis (can be part of See Section 4.3 and D Overview/Survey Report). Appendix 4D and 4E 6. Identify by mileposts any areas requiring survey for which the D N/A landowner denied access. 7. Provide written comments on the Overview and Survey Reports, if available, from the SHPOs or THPOs, as appropriate, and D See Volume 4 applicable land-managing agencies. 8. Provide a summary table of completion status of cultural resource surveys and SHPO or THPO and land-managing D See Section 4.6 agency comments on the reports. 9. Provide a summary table of identified cultural resources and SHPO or THPO and land-managing agency comments on the D See Table 4.6-3 eligibility recommendations for those resources 10. Provide a brief summary of the status of federally recognized See Volume 3 and Section Indian tribe contact, including copies of related correspondence D 4.9 and records of verbal communications. 11. Provide a brief summary of comments received from See Sections 4.8 through D stakeholders regarding cultural resources. 4.10 12. Provide a schedule for completing any outstanding cultural D See Section 4.7 resource studies. ii NORTHEAST SUPPLY ENHANCEMENT PROJECT RESOURCE REPORT 4 – CULTURAL RESOURCES SUMMARY OF FILING INFORMATION Data INFORMATION Found in Section Sources1 13. Provide an Unanticipated Discoveries Plan for the project area, See Appendix 1B, referencing appropriate state statutes. D Attachments 5 and 6 to Resource Report 1 1 Data Source Definitions: D = Applicant iii NORTHEAST SUPPLY ENHANCEMENT PROJECT RESOURCE REPORT 4 – CULTURAL RESOURCES RESPONSES TO FERC COMMENTS DATED 1/17/2017 REGARDING DRAFT RESOURCE REPORT 4 Comment: Response/Information Location: 65. Provide any previously unfiled or new correspondence (including any enclosures/attachments, in color if originally provided in color), meeting notes, phone logs, etc., including the following correspondence listed in table 4.7-3: Pennsylvania a. The August 11, 2016 draft Onshore Unanticipated Discovery Plan (UDP) and the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) comments dated September 19, 2016. b. The Quarryville Loop Phase I Archaeological Survey draft report referenced in the transmittal letter dated October 19, 2016 and the Pennsylvania SHPO comments. c. The Pennsylvania SHPO comment letter regarding the Revised Onshore UDP submitted on October 26, 2016. See Volumes 3 and 4 New Jersey d. Transco’s transmittal letter and draft Onshore UDP referenced in the New Jersey SHPO’s comments dated September 26, 2016. e. The New Jersey SHPO comment letter for the Revised Onshore and Offshore UDP submitted on October 26, 2016. New York f. Transco’s transmittal letter and letter report detailing geophysical survey of vibracore locations 37-44 as referenced in the October 13, 2016 response from the New York SHPO. g. The New York SHPO response approving vibracore locations and sampling methodology referenced in an email to the New York SHPO dated October 5, 2016. 66. Rectify, clarify, and correct the following apparent discrepancies in regulatory correspondence, and update table 4.7-3 to include accurate dates for all correspondence, emails, meeting notes, phone logs, etc. a. Section 4.3.1.2 references a June 21, 2016 New Jersey SHPO response as providing concurrence of Transco’s definition of direct a. See Section 4.4.1.2 and Table Area of Potential Effect (APE); however, it appears that the New 4.8-1 Jersey SHPO concurred with the definition of the direct APE in its b. See Section 4.5.1 and Table 4.8- October 28, 2016 response regarding the Terrestrial Work Plan. 1 b. Section 4.4.1, 2nd paragraph: submission of the Phase I report for c. See Section 4.8.1.2 and Table the Quarryville Loop occurred on October 19, 2016, not October 4.8-1 20, 2016. d. See Section 4.8.1.3 and Table c. Section 4.7.2.2, 3rd paragraph: submission of the New Jersey 4.8-1 Terrestrial Work Plan occurred on August 8, 2016, not August 15, 2016. e. See Section 4.11 d. Section 4.7.2.3, 3rd paragraph: the New York SHPO provided a response on November 9, 2016, not November 10, 2016. e. Section 4.11, 2nd paragraph: Pennsylvania SHPO comments were dated September 19, 2016, not September 29, 2016. 67. Provide the NJDEP’s Superstorm Sandy Waterway Debris Removal See Section 4.8.1.2 and Volume 3 Project Report referenced in section 4.7.2.2. Attachment 1 68. Update section 4.4.1.2 to describe the archaeological survey methodology for low probability areas per the Revised Terrestrial Work See Section 4.5.1.2 Plan iv NORTHEAST SUPPLY ENHANCEMENT PROJECT RESOURCE REPORT 4 – CULTURAL RESOURCES RESPONSES TO FERC COMMENTS DATED 1/17/2017 REGARDING DRAFT RESOURCE REPORT 4 Comment: Response/Information Location: 69. Provide documentation of any actions taken to follow-up with the federally recognized Native American tribes and other parties and, if See Volume 3, Attachment 2. applicable, any responses from those parties contacted. 70. Address stakeholder concerns about direct and indirect impacts (visual, auditory, odor, etc.) on the following resources near Compressor Station 206 in Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey: a. Rockingham House (National Register ID 70000394); b. Withington Estate (National Register ID 84002740); c. Kingston Village Historic District (National Register ID 89002163); d. Kingston Bridge (part of the Kingston Mill Historic District, National Final reports will be provided as a Register ID 86000707); supplemental filing, in the 2nd e.