i, the undersigned, patricia andrés-carmona, official ......the province of francisco morazan....

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-----Certified Translation-----I, The Undersigned, Patricia Andrés-Carmona, Official Translator Of The Ministry OfForeign Affairs Of The Republic Of Costa Rica, Appointed By Agreement No. 197-002-AjOf April 15, 2002, Certify That In English, The Document To Be Translated Reads AsFollows:________________________________________________________________________

INSTITUTO HONDUREÑO DE ANTROPOLOGÍA E HISTORIA(I.H.A.H.)

FIELD SURVEYMONTAÑA DE ISOPO WIND PROJECTPROVINCE OF FRANCISCO MORAZAN

Prepared for theHeritage Deputy Management

I.H.A.H

Investigator: Santiago Escobar MoralesSupervisor: Archeologist Oscar Niel

JULY 2013-----Last line page 1-----

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INTRODUCTION1

By means of a request for a ruling submitted to the INSTITUTO HONDUREÑO DEANTROPOLOGÍA E HISTORIA (I.H.A.H.) [Honduran Institute of Anthropology andHistory] by the company GLOBELEQ MESOAMERICA ENERGY in the city ofTegucigalpa, since that city has had an excessive population growth in the last decades[sic], which has caused, among so many other things, the need of resources such aspower from wind powered generators, it proposed the installation of six aerogeneratorsas a THIRD phase [sic].

Given the basic needs and scarcity of power in the country, the company GlobeleqMesoamerica Energy asked the I.H.A.H. to undertake the corresponding field survey todetermine if in the area where they are proposing to locate six aerogenerators more as aTHIRD phase of the project … [sic].

Since the I.H.A.H. is the only entity authorized to carry out these surveys, when dealingwith soil removal [sic], there should not be in those places archeological remains thatmay be damaged during the construction. Therefore, the Subgerencia de Patrimonio[Deputy Management of Heritage] through the Unidad de Arqueología [Archeology Unit]assigned technical and archeological staff to that inspection.

After receiving the authorization of the I.H.A.H. Deputy Management of Heritage and theinstructions of Archeologist Oscar Neil of the Archeology Unit, the inspection was carriedout, starting with a fieldwalk of the area.

What has been mentioned above lets us know that the Honduran Institute ofAnthropology and History (I.H.A.H.) is the only governmental entity in charge ofprotecting and safeguarding the nation’s cultural heritage.

LOCATION

The location where it is expected to place 5 wind power aerogenerators is located inAldea Montaña de Isopo in the Municipality of San Buena Ventura, Francisco Morazan,on the left margin of the road leaving the capital city of Tegucigalpa toward the city ofCholuteca.

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1 Translator’s disclaimer: The original document in Spanish contains many incomplete ideas/statements,run-on sentences, spelling and punctuation errors that interfere with the meaning and interpretation of thedocument. The translator is not authorized to make the many substantial changes that would be requiredto improve the readability of the document. Therefore, the translator has used the convention [sic] toidentify those places where the understanding of the English version is compromised by the wording of theoriginal.

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And one more aerogenerator will be located in the 4-03K area of Santa Ana of the sameCompany [sic].

Considering the soil removal that takes place when installing each of theseaerogenerators and opening the access roads to them, a careful fieldwalk throughoutthe area to be impacted by that Company.

Area included in the fieldwalk in Montaña de Isopo where aerogenerators 14-01L, 14-02L, 14- 03L, 14- 04L y 14- 05L are supposed to be installed

Aerogenerator 4-03K will be installed in the area of Santa Ana-----Last line page 3-----

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These photos show aerogenerator 4-03K already installed in the first phase [sic].

OBJECTIVES

1. This inspection needs to be done in order to comply with the mandate of thenation’s cultural heritage protection law, Legislative Decree 220-97, articles 2, 15,20, and 22 which mention the investigation the conservation [sic] of the nation’scultural assets.

2. Safeguard all of the existing archeological sites in this area of construction andinstallation of the power aerogenerators of the company Globeleq MesoaméricaEnergy [sic].

3. Identify the archeological sites by carefully fieldwalking the area to be impactedby the opening of roads for the construction and installation of theaerogenerators.

4. Comply with one of the goals of the I.H.A.H which deals with the rescue andprotection of all of the nation’s cultural goods.

5. Try to identify as much as possible new archeological sites and include them inour records because, for one reason or another, the Honduran Institute ofAnthropology and History has not covered the whole national territory.


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6. Identify the degree of impact on the archeological and historical sites in the areain order to present in a second phase of the Project archeological and historicalmitigation, rescue, or salvage, etc. [sic]

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Referring to field survey projects, the most similar records to this type of survey, [sic] wecan compare it with the Mesoamerica Energy Wind Project [sic] in the Santa Ana, LaCofradia and Nueva Arcadia area in 2012 and a survey made with the SANAA in theproject to build the Guacerique II Dam in 1012 [sic] in the capital city of Tegucigalpa inthe Province of Francisco Morazan.

Archeologically, the Tegucigalpa area has not been studied much; among theinvestigators who prepared a record of a scientific nature we can mention the Americanarcheologist Doris Stone. In the first half of last century, she did a field survey inHonduras recorded in her books published in the 1950s.

In this book she mentions a couple of archeological sites on the outskirts of what at thetime comprised Tegucigalpa [and] which today are its suburbs. By the 90s, the Americanarcheologists Alison McKittrick, Boyd Dixon, Anne Jung, visited sites where there wereprehistoric paintings in the Province of Francisco Morazan, where they recorded someprehistoric art sites near Tegucigalpa [sic]. In the 2000s, a field survey assessment wasdone at the prehistoric art sites around Tegucigalpa with Honduran Social AnthropologistAlejandro Figueroa and Mexican Physical Anthropologist Francisco Rodríguez-Motatogether with the staff of the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History (I.H.A.H.).

METHODOLOGY

Using the transept methodology at 10 to 20 meters intervals from north to south andfrom east to west, as allowed by the landforms, the fieldwalk included all the pasturelands, alluvial terraces, earth roads, internal roads, tillage, empty lots, lots with houses,hill slopes, etc.

To record the information, we used orthophotographic maps of the site locations, and anaerial photograph that located the coordinates where the power aerogenerators will beinstalled, and the I.H.A.H. data record sheets.

To determine the coordinates we aided ourselves with technical GPS equipment, aphotographic camera, and a visual inspection while in the company of people who arefamiliar with the area where these wind power aerogenerators [sic] are going to be builtand installed.


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RATIONALE

Since these lands will be subjected to soil removal when opening roads and installingthe power aerogenerators, so a careful archeological fieldwalk is carried out as it willallow us to safeguard all archeological findings detected on the surface.

Taking into account that all land modifications or alterations with archeological orhistorical remains will be authorized by the town halls prior authorization and ruling ofthe Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History … [sic].

Because it is an unavoidable obligation that before undertaking any type of works,whether public or private, this will be conditioned to a ruling regarding the archeologicalconditions of the lands subjected to modifications, alterations, or impacts because onlythe Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History is the only governmental institutionresponsible for the conservation, protection, and rescue of the nation’s cultural heritageand no other entity may authorize or carry out without prior authorization soil removalwhere archeological sites exist [sic].

Once the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History has carried out theinspections, excavations and assessment of the lands, as in this case, the requestsubmitted will be either granted or rejected.

FINDINGS

After the surface fieldwalk of the lands mentioned earlier, being aided by theorthophotographic map, and the coordinate points provided by the company GlobeleqMesoamerica Energy, no archeological findings were detected anywhere on the surfaceso a detailed description of the findings of this inspection is provided [sic].

# 1 Coordinates of [Aerogenerator] 14-01L16p 0482848UTM 1540115

Site where Aerogenerator 14-01L will be installed; it is located on the northern side ofAldea Montaña del Isopo on a flat area at the top of the hill where there is a forestcomposed of pine trees and white oaks, and some tillage where it was possible to seerock fences dividing properties and retention walls. This land is mostly plowed with oxen;the crops include vegetables and staple grains.


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Pine-tree and white oak forest at the foot of the mountain

This photo shows the fences that divide properties.-----Last line page 7-----

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This photo shows some fences or earth retention walls which are used for plantingvegetables and staple grains.


In this land, we noticed it had been used to plant vegetables and staple grains in thepast; at present, some rocks may be seen spread out all over the place, as well asbushes and it is surrounded by pine trees and oaks; no archeological findings are seenat all in the tillage.


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This photo shows rock outcroppings in some places in their natural state.


This site is located on the flat part of the hill where there is tillage with staple grains inaddition to rock fences used as wall retention and some fences made of the rocksthemselves dividing properties; among the tillage some rock outcroppings in their naturalstate may be seen plus a pine and oak forest.


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In this [photo], some maize crops and rocks spread out throughout the land may beseen.

In this photo, the most part of the tillage and the pine and oak forest can be seen.


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Tillage as staple grain crops surrounded by a pine and oak forest [sic]; it also possible tosee rocks used as barricades for earth retention walls, divide properties, and rocks intheir natural state spread out everywhere[;] no archeological traces are seen.

This photo shows the staple grain crops and the forest around it.


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Tillage as staple grain crops surrounded by a pine and oak forest [sic]; it also possible tosee rocks used as barricades for earth retention walls, divide properties, and rocks intheir natural state spread out everywhere[;] no archeological traces are seen.

Tillage with staple grain crops surrounded by a pine and oak forest-----Last line page 12-----

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# 1 Coordinates of [Aerogenerator] 4-03K16p 0471361UTM 1540478

At this site an oak forest is seen and the land is a rock outcropping in its natural state[sic] and it is located on the west side at about two hundred meters from aerogenerator4-02K in the area of Santa Ana[;] no archeological remains are seen.

These photos show the oak forest and the rock outcropping in its natural state


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Furthermore, some coordinate points were calculated at different strategic places in thelands close to the sites where the wind power aerogenerators [sic] will be installed; theyare described next.

# 1 Coordinate16p 0482850UTM 1540189

# 2 Coordinate16p 0482695UTM 1540155

# 3 Coordinate16p 0482792UTM 1540249

These sites were calculated in the surroundings where supposedly aerogenerator 14-0lLwill be installed in the tillage and forests that are next to the main site [sic].

This is one of tillage areas walked through on the southern side of site 14-01L


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Sites that were calculated around where supposedly aerogenerator 14-03L will beinstalled:

# 1 Coordinate16p 0483350UTM 1539982

# 2 Coordinate16p 0483249UTM 1539958

# 3 Coordinate16p 0483173UTM 1540057

# 4 Coordinate16p 0483300UTM 1540045

In this photo it is possible to see the rock fences that divide properties.


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Sites that were calculated around where supposedly aerogenerator 14-04L between thetillage and pine and oak forest:

# 1 Coordinate16p 0483426UTM 1539831

# 2 Coordinate16p 0483448UTM 1539973

# 3 Coordinate16p 0483361UTM 1539914

In this photo you can see the oak forest and on the background a tillage with staple graincrops


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Sites that were calculated around where supposedly aerogenerator 14-05L between thetillage and pine and oak forest:

# 3 Coordinate16p 0483758UTM 1539991

# 3 Coordinate16p 0483655UTM 1539940

# 3 Coordinate16p 0483603UTM 1539957

# 3 Coordinate16p 0483526UTM 1539890

The forest and the tillage were walked in transepts of 5 to 10 meters from east to westand from south to north.


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Coordinates of the sites where supposedly the access to the aerogenerators in the 14-01L area will be built:

# 3 Coordinate16p 0482433UTM 1539878

# 3 Coordinate16p 0482754UTM 1540073

# 3 Coordinate16p 0482591UTM 1540051

# 3 Coordinate16p 0482607UTM 1539975

In a straight line it is what supposedly they are going to do to open the access road [sic].-----Last line page 18-----

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This photo shows where the access road will begin.

Here we can see one of the workers cutting grass where the road will be built.-----Last line page 19-----

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CONCLUSION

After walking around all pasture lands with cattle roads, the flat areas of the hill terraces,unpaved roads, internal roads used by firewood seekers in the hills and mountains, andthe tillage located on the hill slopes… [sic].

We also walked along the rainwater stream beds observed in the mountain, next to thetillage, lands with vegetable crops, and nearby communities at the foot of the mountains.

Based on these results, from the point of view of the lands, which have completely[composed of] rock outcroppings in their natural state, the scarcity of water at the site[s],which are going to be developed by the company Globeleq Mesoamerica Energy, we donot have traces and beginnings of surface archeology [sic].

It was analyzed [sic] that [in] the entire land or area for the construction of roads andinstallation of the wind power aerogenerators [sic] there are no visible archeological,colonial, or historical sites, so it will be necessary to observe at the time of removing thesoil at the time of the construction [sic].

RECOMMENDATIONS

1- Before starting the soil removal the company Globeleq Mesoamerica Energy willhave to inform in advance the I.H.A.H., so that institution can assign authorizedpersonnel to supervise said removal and construction.

2- This type of investigation should be applied in any land whose owners changetheir current use, where for agricultural activities, infrastructure, or others.

3- Permanent monitoring will be kept with personnel assigned by the I.H.A.H duringthe opening of the roads and installation of the wind power aerogenerators [sic) inthis project since it was noticed that up to the time of the fieldwalk several placeshave not been modified and that something historical [or] cultural on the subsoilcan be damaged [sic].

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4- The company Globeleq Mesoamerica Energy is advised to carry out this type ofbefore any project, whether to open or expand roads and install new wind poweraerogenerators inside and outside populated places.

[No signature]Santiago Escobar-Morales

I.H.A.H. Technician in Archeology________________________________________________________________________IN WITNESS WHEREOF this translation from Spanish to English and which consists of21 pages is issued in San Jose, Costa Rica, on September 27, 2013. The correspondinglegal stamps are affixed and cancelled.

[Hardcopy signed and stamped]

Patricia Andrés-Carmona

i, the undersigned, patricia andrés-carmona, official ......the province of francisco morazan....

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