Conduct Ongoing Consultation. Caltrans PQS have the responsibility to continue consultation with tribes throughout the life of a project whenever they express interest in or concern about an undertaking or about cultural properties that may be affected by an undertaking. Minimally, attempts at such consultation should occur in the following circumstances: • When identifying historic properties or when making any consideration of eligibility, evaluation, or finding of effect that involves historic properties to which a tribe may ascribe religious or cultural significance; • When developing conditions on a finding of effect, avoidance and minimization measures, or resolution of adverse effects that involves historic properties to which a tribe may ascribe religious or cultural significance; • Changes to an undertaking’s APE that may result in effects to new cultural resources or new effects to resources within the original APE; • Event of post-review discovery, ESA breach, or unanticipated effect to cultural resources or sensitive areas within or adjacent to the APE that may be of significance to the tribe; • When an undertaking has been cancelled, completed, shelved, or unshelved from the project delivery process. Topics of consultation may include, but are not limited to, Consultation on the following: • Tribally preferred methods of communication and notification protocols for effective consultation; • Tribal monitoring; • Appropriate methods for identification and evaluation of historic properties of significance to tribes, including the integration of tribal traditional knowledge or other forms of tribal expertise into PA processes and documentation; • Tribal assessments of effects on historic properties; • Tribally preferred methods and measures to avoid, minimize, and resolve adverse effects to historic properties; • Appropriate methods and formats documenting the results of consultation. This may include consultation on the types of information tribes feel is appropriate for inclusion in Section 106 documentation or the development of tribally recommended technical documents; • Appropriate methods of handling and storing cultural resources and final disposition of collections; • Site security; This consultation should be initiated in writing in the same manner as the initial outreach letters. The letters should indicate any relevant changes and new occurrences that have occurred since your last consultation and clearly indicate the purpose of the consultation. Any documents assoc...
