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Mitigation Measures <br /> <br />The mitigation measures below would be required if plans <br />indicate that excavation activities for the proposed project <br />would exceed 5 feet in depth. <br /> · Prior to any earth-moving activity in the parcel, a <br /> vertebrate paleontologist retained by the developer and <br /> approved by the City of Santa Ana shall develop a storage <br /> agreement with the LACMVP, the County of Orange <br /> paleontologic collection storage facility, or another <br /> acceptable museum repository to allow for the permanent <br /> storage and maintenance of any fossil remains recovered in <br /> the parcel as a result of the monitoring program, and for <br /> the archiving of associated specimen data and corresponding <br /> geologic and geographic site data at the museum repository. <br /> <br />The paleontologist shall develop a mitigation plan and a <br />discovery clause/treatment plan that, when implemented <br />during earth-moving activities in the parcel, shall allow <br />for the recovery and subsequent treatment of any fossil <br />remains and associated specimen and site data uncovered by <br />these activities. <br /> <br />The paleontologist and a paleontologic construction monitor <br />shall attend a pregrading meeting to explain the monitoring <br />program to grading contractor staff and to develop <br />procedures and lines of communication to be implemented if <br />fossil remains are uncovered by earth-moving activities, <br />particularly when a monitor is not on site. <br /> <br />Paleontologic monitoring~of earth-moving activities <br />(particularly trenching) will be conducted by the monitor <br />on a full-time basis once these activities have exceeded a <br />depth 5 feet below current grade. Earth-moving activities <br />in areas of the parcel where previously undisturbed strata <br />will be buried but otherwise not disturbed shall not be <br />monitored. Monitoring shall include the inspection of <br />debris piles generated by trenching and other earth-moving <br />activities at depths greater than 5 feet below current <br />grade. <br /> <br />If fossil remains are found by the monitor, earth-moving <br />activities will be diverted temporarily around the fossil <br />site until the remains'have been recovered and these <br />activities allowed to proceed through the site by the <br />monitor. <br /> <br />31 .A. <br /> <br /> <br />