Indiana Administrative Code
Title 312 - NATURAL RESOURCES COMMISSION
Article 21 - ARCHAEOLOGICAL REVIEW AND RECOVERY
Rule 3 - Qualification Standards
Section 3-8 - Project documentation and reporting

(a) A principal investigator must ensure that project documentation is integrated into a project completion report. This report provides the results of archaeological investigations, including recommendations for further archaeological work. A project completion report must also provide the division with technical findings from which cultural resource management and compliance decisions can be made, which will protect important archaeological sites.

(b) A project completion report is required for an investigation under this article. The principal investigator shall submit a draft of the report through the person who is required to complete a project (or, if the state is the contractor, directly) to the division for review and approval. After a report is approved, the principal investigator shall submit a final copy to the division, to the agency that requires a project to be completed under this article, and to the person who is required to complete the project under this article.

(c) The size and content of a project completion report shall reflect the size and complexity of the project and the project plan. The report shall use standard quality paper on white bond, eight and one-half (8½) inches wide and eleven (11) inches long, and must include the following:

(d) An abbreviated project completion report may be prepared where the archaeological investigation does not produce evidence for archaeological resources or where alteration or disturbance precludes the survival of any archaeological sites. A report prepared under this subsection must satisfy subsection (c)(1) and must provide adequate additional documentation under subsection (c) to inform the division of any potential project effect on archaeological sites.

(e) A project that consists of a records check or literature search shall minimally address subsection (c)(1), (c)(3), and (c)(5) through (c)(14). The focus of a project under this subsection is normally on the range of site forms and historical and archaeological documentation addressed by the investigation, where the information is housed or curated, the author's conclusion as to whether potentially important archaeological sites are affected, and recommendations to the applicant for additional investigations. The project shall also contain bibliographic references, maps that adequately portray the location of archaeological sites discovered by the investigation, and copies of completed site forms under subsection (c)(14).