Conduct Ongoing Consultation Sample Clauses

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 a project or about cultural resources that may be affected by a project. Minimally, attempts at such consultation should occur in the following circumstances: • When identifying potential state-owned historical resources or making any assumption of eligibility, evaluation, or finding of effect that involves state-owned historical resources to which a tribe may ascribe religious or cultural significance; • When developing conditions on a finding of effect, avoidance, minimization, or mitigation measures that involves state-owned historical resources to which a tribe may ascribe religious or cultural significance; • Changes to a project’s PAL that may result in effects to new state-owned cultural resources or new effects to resources within the original PAL; • Event of post-review discovery, ESA breach, or unanticipated effect to state-owned cultural resources or sensitive areas within or adjacent to the PAL that may be of significance to the tribe; • When a project has been cancelled, completed, shelved, or unshelved from the project delivery process. • Topics of consultation may include but are not limited to, the following: • Tribally preferred methods of communication and notification protocols for effective consultation; • Tribal monitoring; • Appropriate methods for identification and evaluation of state-owned historical resources of significance to tribes, including the integration of tribal traditional knowledge or other forms of tribal expertise into the documentation; • Tribal assessments of effects on state-owned historical resources; • Tribally preferred methods and measures to avoid, minimize, and mitigate adverse effects to state-owned historical resources; • 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 PRC 5024 documentation or the development of tribally recommended technical documents; • Appropriate methods of handling and storing state-owned 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 since your last consultation and clearly indicate the purpose of the consultat...