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EXHIBIT A Finding: Less than significant impact. (DEIR, p. 2-6; Initial Study, p. 27) Facts in Support of Finding: Soils beneath the subject site are mapped as Quaternary Alluvium deposited by the Santa Ana River and Santiago Creek. Quaternary alluvial materials in Orange County are assigned a low paleontological resource sensitivity due to their relatively recent age. As described above, the Project site has been extensively disturbed to various depths across the site, and the Project will involve grading and excavations to depths of approximately 15 feet below the ground surface, which would not extend below previous excavations into native soils. As a result, potential impacts related to paleontological resources would be less than significant. (Initial Study, p. 27). In addition, the Project site is developed with a building, parking areas, and landscaping, and no unique geologic feature exists on the Project site. 9.5.4 Human Remains Threshold: Would the Project disturb any human remains, including those interred outside of dedicated cemeteries? Finding: Less than significant impact. (DEIR, p. 2-6; Initial Study, p. 27) Facts in Support of Finding: The Project site has been extensively disturbed, as described above, and has not been previously used as a cemetery. Thus, impacts related to human remains are less than significant. However, in the unanticipated event that human remains are found during Project construction activities, compliance with California Health and Safety Code Section 7050.5 will ensure that human remains will be treated with dignity and as specified by law, which will reduce the impact to a less than significant level. As specified by California Health and Safety Code Section 7050.5, if human remains are found on the Project site, the County Coroner's office shall be immediately notified and no further excavation or disturbance of the discovery or any nearby area reasonably suspected to overlie adjacent remains shall occur until the Coroner has made the necessary findings as to origin and disposition pursuant to Public Resources Code 5097.98. If the Coroner recognizes the remains to be Native American, he or she shall contact the Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC) within 24 hours. The NAHC will make a determination as to the Most Likely Descendent. Ultimately, compliance with the existing California Health and Safety Code regulations will ensure impacts related to potential disturbance of human remains are less than significant. (Initial Study, p. 27) 9.6 Geology and Soils 9.6.1.1 Exposure to Potential Risk of Loss, Injury, or Death — Earthquake Threshold: Would the Project expose people or structures to potential substantial adverse effects, including the risk of loss, injury or death involving rupture of a known earthquake fault, as delineated on the most recent Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Map issued by the State Geologist for the area or based on other substantial evidence of a known fault? Finding: No impact. (DEIR, p. 2-6; Initial Study, pp. 29-30) Facts in Support of Finding: Implementation of the Project would have no impact related to the exposure of people or structures to the rupture of a known earthquake fault. There are no Alquist-Priolo fault zones or other faults mapped on or adjacent to the Project site. The closest major active faults are the Elsinore Fault Zone, which is 10 miles northeast of the Project site, and the Newport -Inglewood -Rose Canyon Fault Zone, which is located 10 miles to the southwest. Thus, the Project will not expose people or Resolution No. _ Certification of the Magnolia at the Park EIR 75E-64 Page 26 of 71