Public Notice of Mitigated Negative Declaration for CDFW's 2013 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 Humboldt, Los Angeles, Marin, Mendocino, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Siskiyou, Sonoma, and Ventura 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 (PDF)
• Humboldt (projects HR16, FP187, HR188, HI218, HU239)
• Humboldt (projects FP241, HI246)
• Humboldt (projects HU258, WC261, HB271)
• Los Angeles
• Marin  
• Mendocino (projects HI10, HU184, HI192, HR223, HI231)
• Mendocino (projects HI232, HI244, HI248, HI249, HI251)
• Mendocino (projects HI253, HI254, HI255, HI256)
• Monterey (projects HI49, FP70)
• San Luis Obispo  
• Santa Barbara  
• Santa Clara
• Santa Cruz
• Siskiyou  
• Sonoma (projects HB26, HI54, HI55, HI79)
• Sonoma (projects HI98, HI111, FP225)
• Ventura
• Appendix B. Mitigation Measures, Monitoring and Reporting Program For the 2013 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:

• CDFW Fisheries Branch Office
  830 S Street
  Sacramento
• CDFW Northern Region Office           
  1455 Sandy Prairie Court, Suite J
  Fortuna
• CDFW Bay Delta Region Office
  5355 B Skylane Dr.
  Santa Rosa
• CDFW Central Region Office
  20 Lower Ragsdale Dr. Ste. 100
  Monterey
• CDFW South Coast Region offices
  4665 Lampson Ave.
  Los Alamitos

Written comments are requested on or before January 22, 2013.
For additional information contact:

• Ms. Gayle Garman, Staff Environmental Scientist, (707) 725-1068
• Ms. Gail Seymore, Senior Environmental Scientist, (707) 944-5579
• Ms. Margaret Paul, Senior Environmental Scientist, (831) 649-2882
• Ms. Mary Larson, Senior Environmental Scientist, (562) 342-7186