Res 2013-182/Approving an agreement w/CP&Y for professional engineering services with the Cottonwood Creek 24-inch Water Main Extension project

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• Review the abovementioned archives; historic, geological, and soil maps; and aerial surveys and photographs prior to initiating fieldwork to evaluate the potential for encountering significant cultural resources within the project's area of potential effects (APE). Cultural Resource Survey Fieldwork Horizon will: • Perform an intensive pedestrian survey of the APE, consisting of surface walkover with surface inspection and shovel testing at a level of intensity sufficient to meet or exceed the Texas State Minimum Archeological Survey Standards (TSMASS) and guidelines established by the Council of Texas Archeologists (CTA) unless field conditions warrant excavation of more or fewer shovel tests. • Document any cultural resources encountered to a sufficient degree to make preliminary determinations of the significance of the resources in terms of their eligibility for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and for designation as State Archeological Landmarks (SALs). • Inspect the locales of any previously recorded archeological sites within the APE and assess their current condition. • Complete and submit State of Texas Archeological Site Data Forms (for new archeological sites) or State of Texas Archeological Site Update Forms (for previously recorded archeological sites) to TARL. Permanent site trinomials will be obtained from TARL for any new archeological sites documented within the APE during the survey. Reporting Horizon will: • Develop draft and final technical reports detailing the project background, environmental and cultural setting of the project area, research goals and survey methods, survey results, recommendations for any cultural resources documented during the survey, and a bibliography of references cited suitable for review by the THC and any other applicable regulatory agencies. • Assess the significance of any cultural resources within the project's APE in terms of their potential eligibility for inclusion in the NRHP and for designation as SALs. • Submit 2 hard copies of a draft technical report describing the results of the survey to the THC and any other applicable regulatory agencies for review and comment. Horizon will coordinate review of the draft report with the regulatory agencies unless the client would prefer to coordinate agency review. • Respond to any comments on the draft report offered by the THC and any other applicable regulatory agencies and produce a final report. • Submit the final report, including up to 4 hard copies and 1 electronic copy to the client and the THC to fulfill the conditions of the Antiquities Permit. B. SURVEYING SERVICES Limits: Encompassing a 75 foot strip of route survey along the selected alignment, most likely from connection to existing waterline main at McCarty Lane then due south along LCRA easement and then due west to connection to existing waterline main at IH 35. Total distance for the project is approximately 6400 feet in length. 1. Surveyor will perform deed research and appraisal research to provide a base map of the total project to include the list of property owners, adjoiners, tract numbers, legal descriptions, recording information and other pertinent information. 2. Surveyor will attempt recovery of survey datum control as established previously for local COSM, State and County projects in the immediate vicinity of this project. The values will be reconciled to 11/26/2013 6 of 8