Fisheries Restoration Grant Program

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Public Notice of Mitigated Negative Declaration for DFG's 2012 Fisheries Restoration Grant Program Projects

As required by the California Environmental Quality Act, the California Department of Fish and Game's Fisheries Restoration Grant program is providing Public Notice of the completion of a Mitigated Negative Declaration for a proposed project to enhance the capability of streams to produce anadromous salmonids by maintaining, restoring and improving stream habitat essential to salmonid production.

Project Location: Various streams in Del Norte, Humboldt, Marin, Mendocino, Napa, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Siskiyou, Sonoma, and Trinity counties.

Description of Project: This project will use grant funds approved by the California Legislature to initiate activities that are designed to restore salmon and steelhead habitat in coastal streams and watersheds that historically produced large populations of salmon and steelhead. Activities will improve spawning success for adult salmon and steelhead as well as increase survival for eggs, embryos, rearing juveniles, and downstream migrants. Bank stabilization treatments will reduce sediment yield to streams. Upslope road decommissioning or repair will also help address these widespread problems. The replacement of barrier culverts with bridges or natural stream bottom culverts will allow adult and juvenile salmonids access to additional spawning and rearing habitat. The installation of instream structures will recruit and sort spawning gravel for adult salmon and steelhead, and create summer rearing pools and over-wintering habitat for juveniles.

• Introduction - Project Description and Background Information (PDF)
• Initial Study Environmental Checklist Form (PDF)
• Explanation of Response to Initial Study Environmental Checklist Form (PDF)
• Appendix A - list of exempt and action items (PDF)
• Appendix A – Location maps of action items (PDF)
• Appendix A. - Project Information
• Del Norte (All projects)
• Humboldt (projects HB 001, HB 098, HI 058, HI 059, HI 060, HI 065)
• Humboldt (projects HI 143, HR 057, HR 088, HU 021, HU 023, HU 024)
• Humboldt (projects HU 081, HU 087, HU 124, HU 132, HU 137, HU 146)
• Marin
• Mendocino (projects FP 133, HB 084, HI 002, HI 003, HI 004)
• Mendocino (projects HI 005, HI 061, HI 136, HI 160, HU 138)
• Napa (All projects)
• San Luis Obispo
• Santa Barbara
• Santa Cruz (All projects)
• Siskiyou (All projects)
• Sonoma (projects HI 054, HI 114, HI 130, HI 063, HU 055, WC 091)
• Ventura

• Appendix B. Mitigation Measures, Monitoring and Reporting Program For the 2012 Fisheries Restoration Grant Program (PDF)
• Appendix C. Protocols for Surveying and Evaluating Impacts to Special Status Native Plant Populations and Natural Communities (PDF)
• Appendix D. Procedure for the Programmatic Evaluation of Paleontological Resources for the Fisheries Restoration Grant Program (PDF)
• Appendix E. Procedure for the Programmatic Evaluation of Archeological Resources for the Fisheries Restoration Grant Program (PDF)

The Negative Declaration is available for review at:

• DFG Fisheries Branch Office
  830 S Street
  Sacramento
• DFG Northern Region Office
  1455 Sandy Prairie Court, Suite J
  Fortuna
• DFG Bay Delta Region Office
  7329 Silverado Trail
  Yountville
• DFG Central Region Office
  21 Lower Ragsdale Dr. Ste. 100
  Monterey
• DFG South Coast Region offices
  1933 Cliff Drive, Suite 9
  Santa Barbara

Written comments are requested on or before January 13, 2012.

For additional information contact:

• Mr. Gary Flosi, Senior Biologist Supervisor, (707) 725-1072
• Ms. Gail Seymore, Senior Environmental Scientist, (707) 944-5579
• Ms. Margaret Paul, Senior Biologist Supervisor, (831) 649-2882
• Ms. Mary Larson, Senior Fisheries Biologist Specialist, (562) 342-7186