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levels by 2020. The City's existing 2009 CAP GHG emissions reductions goals and <br />actions help to ensure that the City is doing its part in assisting the State in <br />achieving the GHG reduction goals identified in Assembly Bill 32 and Executive <br />Order S-03-05. The EIR will include a consistency evaluation with the City's GHG <br />reduction measures identified in the City's 2009 Climate Action Plan. Since adding <br />support for the Climate Action Plan specifically, and sustainability in general, is one <br />of the goals of this General Plan Update, we expect that the EIR will find that the <br />General Plan is consistent. <br />e. Biological Resources <br />The existing conditions data collected in Task 4.6 will be synthesized to provide the <br />"Setting" section of the EIR. The biological resources impact analysis will evaluate <br />the potential for land use and development activities associated with <br />implementation of the General Plan Update to affect sensitive biological resources, <br />and the adequacy of proposed policies and actions to avoid or mitigate impacts to <br />sensitive biological and wetland resources. Proposed land use designations will be <br />compared to the updated mapping of sensitive biological resources to determine <br />the potential for adverse impacts. A qualitative evaluation of the General Plan's <br />compliance with relevant aspects of federal and State regulations will be provided. <br />Potential impacts will be qualitatively described. We anticipate that the General <br />Plan will be self -mitigating through implementation of updated goals and policies. <br />No site-specific analysis of individual projects or preparation of comprehensive <br />mitigation programs are proposed as part of this scope, but further detailed <br />assessment may be recommended as a policy to confirm the presence or absence of <br />sensitive resources at specific locations as part of the environmental review process <br />for proposed future development applications. <br />f. Cultural Resources <br />Based on the Existing Conditions information compiled in Task 4, Tom Origer will <br />assess the potential of the General Plan Update to impact prehistoric, historical, or <br />built environment cultural resources, including the potential for buried resources. <br />This will include a recap of the prehistory and history of the city and a review of <br />local, State, and federal laws regarding the treatment of cultural resources. <br />Mitigation measures will be prescribed as appropriate. <br />g. Geology, Soils, and Mineral Resources <br />The Planning Center I DC&E will prepare the "Setting" section of the EIR, <br />relying on the data collected and presented in Task 4 (existing conditions). It is <br />expected that geologic impacts may relate to seismic shaking, liquefaction, erosion, <br />