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TABLE OF CONTENTS <br />Page <br />ExecutiveSummary ............................................................... ............................... 1 <br />Introduction <br />2 <br />Defining the Land Evaluation and Site Assessment System ........................... 2 <br />Background on Land Evaluation and Site <br />Assessment Nationwide ..................................................... ............................... 2 <br />Development of the California Agricultural Land Evaluation <br />and Site Assessment Model... ........... __ ............. __ ............... ___ .............. 3 <br />The California Agricultural Land Evaluation and <br />Site Assessment Model ........................................................ ............................... 6 <br />Section I. Required Resources and Information .................. ............................... 6 <br />Section II. Defining and Scoring the California Agricultural <br />Land Evaluation and Site Assessment Factors .. ............................... 7 <br />A. Scoring of Land Evaluation Factors ........ ............................... <br />7 <br />1. The Land Capability Classification Rating ....................... <br />10 <br />2. The Storie Index Rating ....................... ............................... <br />12 <br />B. Scoring of Site Assessment Factors ...... ............................... <br />13 <br />1. The Project Size Rating ....................... ............................... <br />13 <br />2. The Water Resources Availability Rating ......................... <br />16 <br />3. The Surrounding Agricultural Land Rating ........................ <br />23 <br />4. The Surrounding Protected Resource <br />LandRating.. ............................... _ ...................................... <br />28 <br />Section III. Weighting of Factors and Final Scoring ............ ............................... <br />29 <br />Section IV. Scoring Thresholds for Making Determinations of <br />Significance under CEQA .................................... ............................... <br />31 <br />Bibliography..... .................................................................... ................................. <br />32 <br />Appendix A. Abridged set of California LESA step -by -step <br />scoring instructions ............................................ ............................... <br />A -1 <br />Appendix B. Application of the California LESA Model to <br />a hypothetical proposed project ....................... ............................... <br />B -1 <br />i <br />75A -391 <br />