Developers of the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm reconfigured the project’s footprint and agreed to search for Native American artifacts in the sea bed where the turbines would be built, according to a draft agreement drawn up in June to satisfy Native American and historical preservation officials’ concerns.

That never-signed document is expected to serve as a rough template today in Washington when US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar convenes key players to broker a compromise on what appears to be the last major roadblock to Cape Wind’s approval: Native Americans’ conviction that the project will interfere with their age-old spiritual rituals, and the resulting determination by the National Park Service that Nantucket Sound is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.

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