Appendix F Detailed Cover Type Tables - USDA Rural Development

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Bemidji – Grand Rapids Biological Assessment and Evaluation 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Purpose of this Report Projects that require Federal approvals or Federal funding must evaluate potential impacts to rare species and their habitats. Under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is responsible for identifying and listing a species as threatened, endangered, or candidate and for identifying critical habitat. The USFWS must be consulted to determine if a project will have an effect on a federally listed species or critical habitat. The evaluation of potential effects is documented in a Biological Assessment (BA), which is developed by the project proposer and submitted to the USFWS. The USFWS uses the BA to develop a Biological Opinion, which states whether the Federal action is likely to jeopardize the continued existence of a threatened or endangered species or result in the destruction or adverse modification of critical habitat. The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) is required to protect sensitive species on the land that it manages. The Land and Resource Management Plan (Forest Plan) identifies Regional Forester Sensitive Species (RFSS) that must be considered for any project that may impact such species. The USFS also has a responsibility to the Leech Land Band of Ojibwe (LLBO) to protect and manage lands within the Leech Lake Reservation (LLR) consistent with retained treaty rights and interests, including the protection of threatened, endangered, sensitive, or rare species that are of interest to tribes (Forest Plan, S‐TR‐5). The evaluation of potential effects is documented in a Biological Evaluation (BE), which is developed by the project proposer and submitted to the USFS. Per the USFS Forest Service Manual (FSM 2672.41), the USFS uses the BE to review projects and document findings in order: • To ensure that USFS actions do not contribute to loss of viability of any native or desired nonnative plant or contribute to animal species or trends toward Federal listing of any species. • To comply with the requirements of the ESA, that actions of Federal agencies not jeopardize or adversely modify critical habitat of federally listed species. • To provide a process and standard by which to ensure that threatened, endangered, proposed, and sensitive species receive full consideration in the decision making process. The Division of Resources Management (DRM) for the LLR has developed the LLR Endangered, Threatened, and Sensitive species list. Through the NEPA process, the effects of a project on these species must be evaluated and DRM‐approved avoidance or mitigation must be developed. In addition to the evaluations described above, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) requires that projects consider impacts to State‐listed threatened and endangered species, in accord with the Minnesota’s endangered species law (Minnesota Statute 84.0895) and associated rules (Chapter 6212.1800, 6212.2300 and 6134). Based on surveys conducted and documented by the project proposer, the DNR determines if a species would be impacted and identifies mitigation that may be required. The purpose of this combined Biological Assessment/Biological Evaluation (BA/BE) is to review the proposed Bemidji to Grand Rapids 230kV Transmission Line in sufficient detail to determine to what extent the Proposed Action and construction related activities may affect any Federal, USFS, State, or LLR threatened, endangered, sensitive, special concern or candidate species and designated or proposed critical habitats. July 2010 Introduction Page 1‐1
Bemidji – Grand Rapids Biological Assessment and Evaluation 1.2 Decisions to be Based on this Evaluation This report will be used by the USFWS to develop a Biological Opinion, by the USFS ‐ Chippewa National Forest (CNF) to develop a determination of effects and mitigation for a Special Use Permit, by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to develop a determination of effects and mitigation for a Take Permit, and by LLR DRM to determine potential effects and mitigation for impacts to species of concern on LLR lands with retained treaty rights and interests. July 2010 Introduction Page 1‐2
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