N.D. Cent. Code § 55-03-00.1 (2025)
1. "Cultural resources" includes prehistoric or historic archaeological sites, burial mounds, and unregistered graves.
2. "Mitigate adverse effect" includes: a. The process of making and preserving a record of the existence and scientific, historical, architectural, engineering, educational, or aesthetic value of a cultural resource, historic building, structure, or object. b. The process of restoring, rehabilitating, reconstructing, stabilizing, or preserving, through some other means, a cultural resource, historic building, structure, or object.