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AOPA Filing Alert Effective July 1, 2011, a pleading to initiate a proceeding under IC 4-21.5-3 cannot be filed by email. Additional information is provided here. Indiana Lake Michigan Underwater Archaeological Resource Project
Shipwrecks, like the wreck of the JD Marshall which happened 100 years ago this past summer, are memorials to Indiana’s maritime history. With funding from NOAA, Indiana’s Lake Michigan Coastal Management Program (Indiana’s LMCMP) is coordinating archaeological investigations of shipwrecks in the Indiana waters of Lake Michigan. A contract to perform the investigations was awarded to the Commonwealth Cultural Resources Group, Inc. Results of Phase 1 of the study included a literature review of all known wreck sites in Indiana waters and a reassessment of locations surveyed in the 1980s by the Indiana Submerged Artifact and Vessel Evaluation and the Marine Cultural Resources Survey. Direct and indirect assessments yielded relocation and reassessment of ten of the original 14 sites surveyed almost 30 years ago.
(JD Marshall: photo courtesy of DNR Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology)
Indiana’s LMCMP extended the contract for this work and added new work products for 2012. Project updates will be posted once the work begins this spring. Additional information regarding the Shipwreck Project and Indiana’s Underwater Archaeological Resources are scheduled to be presented at the Preserving Historic Places Conference on April 11.
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Digests of the ten most recent “Contested Administrative Decisions of the Department of NAtural Resources” (CADDNAR) are now available in a new service called CADDNAR Updates. You may also receive notice by email when new decisions are added to CADDNAR by signing up using the "Subscribe for e-mail updates" icon at the beginning of this page.
