Agmt 2006 State Coastal Conservancy

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e e _I. I awarded to the Conse~ancy by the' Wildlife Consenration Board' (WCB) for invasive Spartina ,treatment and eradication projects under the ISP Control Program. The WCB funds may be used to supplement existing treatment and eradication grants to the Alameda County Flood Control District, the California Wildlife Foundation, Friends of Corte Madera Creek Watershed, California Department of Parks and Recreation, the East Bay Regional Park District, City of Alameda, City of San Leandro, City of Palo Alto, the San, Mateo County Mosquito Abatement District, and USFWS Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Any grant of additional funds for treatment and eradication shall be subject to the following conditions: ' ' 1. Prior to implementing any treatment and eradication project and prior to disbursement of any funds to the grantee, the grantee shall submit for review and approval of the Executive Officer an updated site-specific plan, based on tbe outcome and extent of the 2005 tr~atment, and including mitigation measures, and a work program for 2006 treatment, including' a schedule and budget, and shall provide evidence that the grantee has obtained all, necessary permits and approval~ for the project. 2. In carrying out any treatment and erad,ication project, the grantee shall comply with ,all applicable mitigation and monitoring measures that are set forth in the approved site-specific plan~ that are require9 by any permit or approval, for the project, or that are identified in the "Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement/Environrnental Impact Report, San Francisco Estuary.Jnvasive Sparlina Project: Sparlina Control Program" (FEIS/R), adopted by the Consenrancy on September 25,2003,'" , Staff further recommends that the Consenrancy 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 to continue and expand the ISP Control Program mapping and monitoring is consistent with the Conservancy authorization and findings adopted September 25, 2003, as shown in the staff recommendation attached as Exhibit 1 to this staff recommendation. 2. Disbursement of additional funds for the ISP Control Program treatment and eradication projects, is consistent with Public Resources Code Sections 31160- J 1164 ahd with the resolutions, finding and discussion accompanying the Conservancy authorizations of September 25, 2003 and June 16, 2005 as shown in the staff recommendations attached as Exhibits 1 and 2 to this staff recommendation. 3. On June ] 6, 2005 the Conservancy authorized initial funding for the 2005 and 2006 ISP Control Program treatment and eradication projects and made appropriate findings under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). This authorization provides for additional funding for those same projects. The nature, duration and extent of those projects, including environmental effects and proposed mitigation measures, was fully described and considered by the 0-2 E)tH~Pdr "]