Draft EA - San Diego International Airport

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SAN DIEGO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT – PROPOSED RUNWAY 9 DISPLACED THRESHOLD discharges and entrainment, controlling runoff, preventing substantial interference with surface water flow, encouraging waste water reclamation, maintaining natural vegetation buffer areas that protect riparian habitats, and minimizing alteration of natural streams. 5. Environmentally sensitive habitat areas shall be protected against any significant disruption of habitat values, and only uses dependent on those resources shall be allowed within those areas. 6. Development in areas adjacent to environmentally sensitive habitat areas and parks and recreation areas shall be sited and designed to prevent impacts which would significantly degrade those areas, and shall be compatible with the continuance of those habitat and recreation areas. 7. The scenic and visual qualities of coastal areas shall be considered and protected as a resource of public importance. Permitted development shall be sited and designed to protect views to and along the ocean and scenic coastal areas, to be visually compatible with the character of surrounding areas, and, where feasible, to restore and enhance visual quality in visually degraded areas. Note that these are not the only coastal zone management and planning policies contained in Chapter 3 of the Coastal Act; rather, these are the policies that SDCRAA considers potentially applicable to the Proposed Action. These policies also are considered in light of Coastal Act guidance that existing developed uses are essential to the economic and social well-being of the people of California. That is, although the Airport is not a coastal dependent use, it is an existing facility that cannot feasibly be relocated to a non-coastal location. 4.9.2 NO ACTION ALTERNATIVE Under the No Action alternative, there would be no change in the existing use of coastal resources at SDIA. Similarly, there would be no proposed Airport developments requiring certification and/or approval from the California Coastal Commission. 4.9.3 PROPOSED ACTION The Proposed Action would not result in any new development in the coastal area. Additionally, in accordance with the California Coastal Commission, the Proposed Action is not on a list of Federal actions that trigger a certification of consistency with the State’s CCMP. As such, the Proposed Action is not subject to a State coastal zone consistency certification. 31 Construction activities would be limited to the remarking of pavement and the relocation of the glide slope antenna and some of the MALSR lights. Relocation of the glide slope antenna would occur on existing paved areas and relocation of the MALSR lights would be coincident with existing light stations. No fill or construction would occur in the Navy Boat Channel and no impacts to water quality or biotic resources within the Navy Boat Channel would occur. Construction and maintenance activities would need to be conducted from boats in the Navy Boat Channel. During this time a minimal impact to boat traffic may occur in the channel. 31 State of California, California Coastal Commission, California Coastal Management Program, List of Federal Licenses and Permits Subject to Certification for Consistency. Environmental Consequences [4-24] Draft EA
SAN DIEGO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT – PROPOSED RUNWAY 9 DISPLACED THRESHOLD Because the Proposed Action would be consistent with the planning and land use policies adopted by the State to protect coastal resources, the Proposed Action would have no significant impacts on coastal resources. 4.9.4 MITIGATION MEASURES Due to recreational boating activity in the Navy Boat Channel related to the marina located north of the MALSR, FAA would require that a notice to mariners be filed with the U.S. Coast Guard and require that marina management be notified of the estimated start and duration of relocation of the MALSR lights at the existing light stations located in the Navy Boat Channel. 4.10 Fish, Wildlife, and Plants This section focuses on the potential for the project alternatives to jeopardize the continued existence of a listed species or destroy or adversely modify critical habitat. 4.10.1 METHODOLOGY Impacts to biotic communities and threatened and endangered species were assessed through a review of previous documents (e.g., least tern nesting records, Biological Opinion [BO]) and assessment of the potential for SDIA to support vegetation communities/habitat). Because the vast majority of SDIA is developed or highly disturbed, this effort focused on the Navy Boat Channel. 4.10.2 NO ACTION ALTERNATIVE Under the No Action alternative, there would be no development near the Navy Boat Channel which contains sensitive habitat as described below and in Section 3.5.6, Biotic Communities. 4.10.3 PROPOSED ACTION Based on a review of the information contained in Sections 3.5.7 and 4.10.1, the FAA determined that the Proposed Action would have no effect on federally listed threatened and endangered species or their habitat. Consultation was initiated with the USFWS on November 30, 2012. The USFWS contacted FAA staff via telephone on December 10, 2012, to concur with FAA that the Proposed Action would not adversely affect any federally endangered species. A copy of the FAA Memorandum of Record of this telephone call has been included in Appendix A. Additionally, the National Marine Fisheries Service was also consulted on November 30, 2012, to address any essential fish habitat. As indicated in Chapter 3, Affected Environment, the habitat surrounding and including SDIA supports a limited number of biological resources because much of the area is already extensively developed. One notable exception is the California least tern nesting areas ("ovals") at the southeast portion of SDIA. However, the Proposed Action would not impact the least tern ovals since the Runway 9 displaced threshold is not adjacent to this area and would not produce any significant change in aircraft traffic, lighting, or vehicular activity around the ovals. No construction or demolition is required to implement the Proposed Action so no construction trucks or cranes would be required. Additionally, the crew in charge of the MALSR lights relocation and the runway markings painting would be limited in size. The Draft EA Environmental Consequences [4-25]
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