Agmt 2006 State Coastal Conservancy

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tit , - . PROJECT NAME . .... . Spartina Proj ect (ISP) Spartina Control Program. The authorized funds may be used to supplement exist,ing treatment and eradication grants to the Alameda County Flood Control District California Department of Parks and Recreation, the California. Wildlife Foundation, the , , , City of Palo Alto, the East Bay Regional Park District, Friends of Corte ,Madera Creek Watershed, and USFWS Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National 'Yildlife Refuge. The funds may also be used for grants to the City of Alameda, the City of San Leandro, and the San Mateo County Mosquito Abatement District for new invasive Spartina treatment and eradication projects. Each grant of funds shall be subject to the following conditions: 1. Prior to implementing any control and treatment project and prior to disbursement of any funds to the grantee, the grantee shall submit for review and approval of the Executive 'Officer a site-specific plan, including mitigation measures, and a work program, including a schedule and budget, and shall provide evidence that the grantee has obtained all necessary permits and' approvals for the project. 2. In carrying out any control and treatment project, the grantee shall comply wi~ all applicable mitigation and monitoring measures that are set forth in the approved site- specific plan, that are required by any permit or approval for the project, or that. are . identified in, the "Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report, San Francisco Estuary. Invasive Spartina Project:' Spartina Control Program" (FEIS/R), adopted by the Conservancy on, SepteJ;Dber 25, 2003." Staff further recommends that the Conservancy adopt the following findings: "Based on the accompanying staff report and attached exhibits, the State Coastal ConserVancy hereby finds that: 1. Disbursement of additional funds for expansion or extension of existing Spartina control and treatment' projects and for new Spartina control and treatment projects is consistent with Public Resources Code Sections 31160-31164 and with the resolutions, findings and discussion accompanying the Conservancy authorization of September 25, 2003, as shown in the staff recommendation attached as Exhibit 2 to this staff recommendation. 2. The proposed authorization is consistent with the Project Selection Criteria and Guidelines adopted by the Conservancy .on January 24, 2001 ~ 3. The Conservancy has independently revieWed and considered the "Addendum to 2003 Invasive Spartina Project Control Program Final Programmatic Enyironmental Impact Report" dated MaY,2005, attached to the accompanying staff recommendation as Exhibit 5, 'and finds that the change proposed in the ISP Control Program, incorporating of the use of the herbicide imazapyr and associated surfactants and colorants for invasive Spartina treatment, may be appropriately addressed in an addendum under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), because there is no substantial evidence that the proposed change to the Control Program will give rise to: new significant environmental effects not considered in the "Final Programmatic Environmental ,Impact StatementlEnvironmental Impact Report, San Francisco Estuary Invasive Spartina Project: Spartina Control Program" (FEISIR), adopted by the Conservancy on September 25, 2003'; or a substantial increase in the severity of the significant effects previously identified in the