CALENDAR ITEM 101FINAL

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT (EIR)

S A N F R A N C I S C O B A YA N D

D E L T A S A N D M I N I N GP R O J E C T

STATE CLEARINGHOUSE NO 2007072036CSLC EIR NO. 742

Throughout EIR

preparation

July 2007

July 2007

July 2010

August 2010

November 2011

September 2012

October 2012

• Coordinated with: Fish & Game and BCDC..…………………

• Notice of Preparation / 30-day comment period…………………...

• Public scoping meetings (Oakland)……………………………..

• Public Draft EIR / 60-day comment period……………………..

• Draft EIR Public Hearings (Berkeley)………………………….

• Revised Draft EIR/ 60-day comment period......................

• Final EIR Published / Notice of Availability……………….

• Final EIR and Public Hearing………………………………... 4

Agency Coordination / Public Review and Comment

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Evaluate Potential Impacts and Identify Mitigation Measures

Reduced Project Alternative with Increased Volume Option

Significant and Unavoidable Impacts

Impact EIR Resource Area

• Delta and Biological ResourcesLongfin Smelt

• Air Emissions-Indirect: Air Quality & -Sand shipped from Canada Climate Change/ -Sand from local quarries Greenhouse Gases

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1. BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES • Impact: Regular operation of sand mining activities will

cause entrainment and mortality of delta and longfin smelt.

• Mitigation Measures Timing of dredging relative to X2. Current restrictions on sand mining operations. Additional requirements and restrictions to minimize and avoid take

will be set through consultation with the CDFG and would likely be a requirement of any Incidental Take Permit that may be issued for the Project.

Compensatory mitigation measures.

Impact remains Significant and Unavoidable

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• Mitigation Measures

No feasible mitigation available;outside CSLC’s control and jurisdiction.

2. AIR QUALITY & CLIMATE CHANGE / GREENHOUSE GASES

• Impact: At Reduced Project mining volumes, sand from non-Project sources would result in emissions that exceed significance thresholds.

AIR-1 - Criteria air pollutants: PM10 & Nox

AIR-2 - Potential impacts on climate change: GHGs

AIR-3 – Potential health risk from diesel particulate matter

Impacts remain Significant and Unavoidable; but would be reduced to Less than Significantwith exercise of Increased Volume Option.

Modeling Domain Used in All Modeling

• The baseline is the point of departure, or starting point, for the EIR impacts analysis.

• The mining volume used as the baseline for the analysis in the EIR is the average annual volume of sand mined from 2002 to 2007.

Less than the permitted levels under the previous leases.

Less than the annual average mined during the entire 10 years under the previous leases.

Recognizes fluctuations over time depending on market demand and other forces.

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CSLC Determination of Baseline

Permits / Approvals NeededAGENCY POSSIBLE ACTION

State Lands Commission CEQA Lead Agency

Department of Fish & Game/ Fish & Game Commission

Incidental Take Permit

San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC)

Use Permits

Other: San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board (SFBRWQCB);State Mining and Geology Board (SMGB); Delta Stewardship Council; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE); U.S. Coast Guard (USCG); U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS); National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS).

1) Certify the Environmental Impact Report.

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Recommended Commission Actions

This concludes the staff presentation.

2) Adopt the Mitigation Monitoring Program (Exhibit C).

3) Adopt the CEQA Findings & Statement of Overriding Considerations (Exhibit D)

4) Approve the Reduced Project Alternativewith Increased Volume Option