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5.0 Environmental Setting 5.3 Cultural/Historical Resources Avion Project SEIR Page 5.3-11 “historically significant” if the resource meets the criteria for listing in the CRHR (PRC Section 5024.1). • An archaeological site consisting of at least three associated artifacts/ecofacts (within a 40-square-meter area) or a single feature. • A “traditional cultural property.” A site would be considered to possess ethnic significance if it is associated with a burial or cemetery; religious, social or transitional activities of a discrete ethnic population; an important person or event as defined by a discrete ethnic population; or the belief system of a discrete ethnic population. The determination of significance of impacts on historical and unique archaeological resources is based on the criteria found in Section 15064.5 of the State CEQA Guidelines. Section 15064.5 clarifies the definition of a substantial adverse change in the significance of a historical resource as “physical demolition, destruction, relocation, or alteration of the resource or its immediate surroundings such that the significance of an historical resource would be materially impaired.” 5.3.4.2 Impacts a. CA-SDI-18,428 With the inclusion of the seven flakes found during the 2017 survey and RDS-3, the expanded boundary of CA-SDI-18,428 increased the site area to just over 2,300 square meters. It was determined that the site had the potential to be eligible under criterion 4 for inclusion on the CRHR, as well as inclusion under the City Historic Resources Register (HRR), criterion a. Therefore, a testing program was conducted that consisted of 17 shovel scrapes and 2 one-meter-square test units. Cultural material recovered during the test were washed, cataloged, and analyzed. Based on the results of the testing program, it was determined that CA-SDI-18,428 does not qualify as a significant historical resource under CEQA and does not qualify under any of the four criteria for inclusion on the California Register of Historical Resources. It was also determined that CA-SDI-18,428 does not qualify as a significant historical resource under any of the six criteria in the current City guidelines. Furthermore, it was also determined that CA-SDI-18,428 does not qualify as an important archaeological site under Division 2, Article 3, of the San Diego Municipal Code, because of its relatively limited variety and density of artifacts and the disturbed nature of the deposit. Recovered material was subsequently curated at the San Diego Archaeological Center (SDAC). b. CA-SDI-18,429 No cultural material was found at or adjacent to the mapped location of CA-SDI-18,429 during the 2013 or the 2017 surveys. Since limited ground visibility may have obscured cultural material, a testing program was conducted for CA-SDI-18,429 that consisted of excavating three 2meter-square surface scrapes. Cultural material recovered during the test was washed, cataloged, and analyzed. Thirteen artifacts were recovered from CA-SDI-18,429, all of which were debitage. No cultural material was found during either previous surveys of the site area. Based on the results of the testing program, it was determined that CA-SDI-18,429 does not qualify as a significant historical resource under CEQA and does not qualify under any of the four criteria for inclusion on the