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EXHIBIT A Resolution No. _____ Page 18 of 71 Certification of the Magnolia at the Park EIR 8.5 Tribal Cultural Resources 8.5.1 Impact on Significant Tribal Cultural Resource Threshold: Would the Project cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of a tribal cultural resource, defined in Public Resources Code section 21074 as either a site, feature, place, cultural landscape that is geographically defined in terms of the size and scope of the landscape, sacred place, or object with cultural value to a California Native American tribe, and that is a resource determined by the lead agency, in its discretion and supported by substantial evidence, to be significant pursuant to criteria set forth in subdivision (c) of Public Resources Code section 5024.1? Finding: Less than significant impact with mitigation incorporated. (DEIR, pp. 4.12-4 through 4.12-5.) Facts in Support of Findings: The Project site has been heavily disturbed to substantial depths in various portions of the Project site. The Project involves excavation and no substantial evidence exists that tribal cultural resources are present in the Project site. However, during the SB 18/AB 52 consultation, the Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians – Kizh Nation stated that the Project lies within its ancestral tribal territory within a sensitive area. Therefore, to avoid potential adverse effects to unknown tribal cultural resources, Mitigation Measure TCR-1 has been included to provide for Native American resource sensitivity training and to prescribe activities should any inadvertent discoveries of tribal cultural resources be unearthed by Project construction activities. Additionally, California Health and Safety Code, Section 7050.5 requires that if human remains are discovered at the Project site, disturbance of the site shall halt and remain halted until the coroner has conducted an investigation. If the coroner determines that the remains are those of a Native American, he or she shall contact, by telephone within 24 hours, the Native American Heritage Commission. Therefore, with implementation of Mitigation Measure TCR-1 and the existing regulations, impacts to tribal cultural resources would be less than significant. Mitigation Measure TCR-1: Inadvertent Discoveries. The Project’s grading and construction plans and specifications shall state that prior to commencement of any excavation activities, a Native American shall be contacted to conduct a Native American Indian Sensitivity Training for construction personnel. The training session includes a handout and focus on how to identify Native American resources encountered during earthmoving activities and the procedures followed if resources are discovered. In the event that tribal cultural resources are inadvertently discovered during ground-disturbing activities, work must be halted within 50 feet of the find until it can be evaluated by a qualified archaeologist in cooperation with a Native American monitor to determine if the potential resource meet the CEQA definition of historical (State CEQA Guidelines 15064.5(a)) and/or unique resource (Public Resources Code 21083.2(g)). Construction activities could continue in other areas. If the find is considered a “resource” the archaeologist, in cooperation with a Native American monitor shall pursue either protection in place or recovery, salvage and treatment of the deposits. Recovery, salvage and treatment protocols shall be developed in accordance with applicable provisions of Public Resource Code Section 21083.2 and State CEQA Guidelines 15064.5 and 15126.4. If unique a tribal cultural resource cannot be preserved in place or left in an undisturbed state, recovery, salvage and treatment shall be required at the Project Applicant’s expense. All recovered and salvaged resources shall 2-54