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3.5 Biological Resources
or during canal enhancement activities during the dry season, thus minimizing any temporary
disturbances to wildlife movement.
Because the General Plan would not include any actions that would permanently disrupt this
potential wildlife corridor, and because the General Plan includes guidelines that would minimize
temporary impacts in this area, potential impacts on wildlife movement would be less than
significant.
Mitigation Measures: No mitigation is required.
Headquarters Facilities Impact Analysis
The impact analyses described above under “General Plan Impact Analysis” address potential
impacts related to all aspects of the General Plan, including constructing and operating the
headquarters facilities. The discussion of the potential loss of or disturbance to special‐status
plants (Impact 3.5‐1) is also applicable to construction and operation of the headquarters facilities
alone; therefore, no additional analysis related to the headquarters facilities is necessary.
Likewise, the discussion of the potential loss of special‐status and nesting migratory bird species
(Impact 3.5‐6) is applicable to the headquarters facilities alone and no additional analysis is
necessary.
No migratory corridors are within the headquarters area; therefore, this issue is not discussed
further.
The following analyses address potential impacts specific to the construction or operation of the
headquarters facilities alone. These potential impacts are different from (e.g., less than) the
potential impacts described above which could be caused by implementing the rest of the General
Plan elements.
IMPACT
3.5-8
Potential Fill of Waters of the U.S., Including Wetlands, or Sensitive Vegetation Communities
from Construction of the Headquarters Facilities
The headquarters facilities were designed and sited to avoid the fill of any waters of the U.S.,
including wetlands, or sensitive vernal pool habitat (see Figure 4.1 in the Clay Pit SVRA General
Plan). Therefore, the project would cause no impact.
Mitigation Measures: No mitigation is required.
Clay Pit State Vehicular Recreation Area
Draft EIR 3.5-15 February2012