Agmt 2008 California State Coastal Conservancy

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activities, if applicable, including a schedule and budget, and evidence that the grantee has obtained all necessary permits and approvals for the project. In carrying out any treatment and eradication project, the grantee shall comply with all applicable mitigation and monitoring measures that are set forth in the approved site-specific plan, that are required by any permit, the amended Biological Opinion or approval for the project, and 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 September 25, 2003. 3. Disbursement of up to $1,749,038 (one million seven hundred forty-nine thousand thirty-eight dollars) of Conservancy funding for ongoing environmental consulting services needed to operate and manage the ISP Control Program on an accelerated schedule through spring of 2010." 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 the ISP Control Program treatment and eradication projects, and ongoing management, is consistent with Public Resources Code Sections 31160-31165 and 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. 2. The proposed authorization is consistent with the Project Selection Criteria and Guidelines last updated by the Conservancy on September 20, 2007. 3. The California Wildlife Foundation and Friends of Corte Madera Creek Watershed are private nonprofit organizations existing under Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code, whose purposes are consistent with Division 21 of the California Public Resources Code. 4. On June 16, 2005 -the Conservancy authorized initial funding for the 2005 and 2006 ISP Control Program treatment and eradication projects at 22 different sites (the original treatment projects), under site-specific plans for each site, and made appropriate findings under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). This authorization provides for additional funding for those same 22 original treatment projects. The nature, duration and extent of the original treatment projects, including environmental effects and proposed mitigation measures, was fully described and considered by the Conservancy in connection with the initial funding authorizations and have not changed, other than by extending the same (or less extensive) work into 2008 (See Exhibit 8). Disbursement of additional funds for the original treatment projects is, thus, consistent with the previous CEQA finding: that the environmental effects associated with the proposed original treatment projects and the mitigation measures needed to reduce or avoid those effects were fully identified and considered