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in the FEIS/R adopted by the Conservancy in September 25, 2003. (See Exhibits 1 <br />- -and 2). - <br />5. On May 24, 2007, the Conservancy authorized 2007 funding for the ISP Control <br />Program treatment and eradication project at the Petaluma River Watershed site (the <br />Petaluma River treatment project), under asite-specific plan for the site, and made <br />appropriate findings under CEQA. Work under the ISP Control program at the <br />Petaluma River treatment project site will continue into 2008, without the need for <br />additional funding. The nature, duration and extent of the Petaluma River treatment <br />project, including environmental effects and proposed mitigation measures, was fully <br />described and considered by the Conservancy in connection with the initial funding <br />authorization and has not changed, other than by extending the same (or less <br />extensive) work into 2008 (See Exhibit 9). Extending work into 2008 for the <br />Petaluma River treatment project is, thus, consistent with the previous CEQA finding: <br />that the environmental effects associated with the proposed treatment projects and the <br />mitigation measures needed to reduce or avoid those effects were fully identified and <br />considered in the FEIS/R adopted by the Conservancy in September 25,2003. (See <br />Exhibits 1 and 9). <br />6. This authorization provides funding for an additional treatment and control project at <br />the North San Pablo Bay site (North San Pablo Bay treatment project). Based on the <br />"Site-specific Invasive Spartina Control Plan for North San Pablo Bay" and the <br />"Environmental Documentation: North San Pablo Bay Invasive Spartina Mitigation <br />Matrix", attached to the accompanying staff recommendation as Exhibits 6 and 7, <br />respectively, the environmental effects associated with the North San Pablo Bay <br />treatment project proposed for grant funding and coordination by the Conservancy <br />under this authorization and the mitigation measures to reduce or avoid those effects <br />were fully identified and considered in the FEIS/R adopted by the Conservancy <br />September 25, 2003. (See Exhibit 1)." <br />PROJECT DESCRIPTION: <br />Introduction <br />As detailed in previous staff recommendations (Exhibits 1 and 2), treatment and control <br />of invasive Spartina and its hybrids within the San Francisco Bay Estuary are critical to <br />the long-term health of the Estuary and to the species which inhabit and rely upon the salt <br />marshes and tidal flats along its perimeter. Invasive Spartina spreads at a greater than <br />exponential rate, and every tidal marsh restoration project implemented within the south <br />and central San Francisco Bay Estuary in the past 15 years has been invaded by non- <br />native invasive Spartina. Invasive Spartina also threatens to spread out the Golden Gate <br />and north and south along the California coastline. <br />For the past eight and one half years the Conservancy has managed the regionally <br />coordinated effort to bring the infestation under control and is now moving towards <br />eradication. The Conservancy advanced the project through, among other actions, 1) in <br />2003 adoption of the "Programmatic Environmental Impact StatementlEnvironmental <br />Impact Report, San Francisco Estuary Invasive Spartina Project: Spartina Control <br />Program" (FEIS/R), 2) in 2004 implementation of treatment at 12 demonstration sites <br />.~ ~-~; ~; E.: <br />~. <br /> <br />