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City of Santa Ana Addendum to the <br />MainPlace Mall Transformation Proiect Fashion Square Commercial Center Final EIR <br />Safety Code Section 7050.5 requires that disturbance of the site shall halt until the <br />coroner has conducted an investigation into the circumstances, manner, and cause of <br />any death, and the recommendations concerning the treatment and disposition of the <br />human remains have been made to the person responsible for the excavation or to his <br />or her authorized representative. The Coroner would also be contacted pursuant to <br />Sections 5097.98 and 5097.99 of the Public Resources Code relative to Native <br />American remains. Should the Coroner determine the human remains to be of Native <br />American descent, the coroner must notify the Native American Heritage Commission <br />(NAHC) within 24 hours. The NAHC would then be required to contact the most likely <br />descendant of the deceased Native American, who would then serve as a consultant on <br />how to proceed with treatment of the remains. Compliance with the established <br />regulatory framework (i.e., California Health and Safety Code Section 7050.5 and Public <br />Resources Code Section 5097.98) would provide that any potential impacts to human <br />remains would be less than significant. No new impact would occur. <br />Assembly Bill (AB) 52 (Chapter 532, Statutes of 2014) establishes a formal consultation <br />process for California tribes as part of the CEQA process and equates significant <br />impacts on "tribal cultural resources" with significant environmental impacts (Public <br />Resources Code [PRC] § 21084.2). AB 52 requires that lead agencies undertaking <br />CEQA review evaluate, just as they do for other historical and archeological resources, <br />a project's potential impact to a tribal cultural resource. As described previously, the site <br />has been highly disturbed and the potential for the Project to impact tribal cultural <br />resources is less than significant. In addition, AB 52 requires that lead agencies, upon <br />request of a California Native American tribe, begin consultation prior to the release of a <br />negative declaration, mitigated negative declaration, or EIR for a project. AB 52 does <br />not apply to a Notice of Exemption or Addendum. As this CEQA document is an <br />Addendum, the AB 52 requirements are not applicable. <br />Conclusion for Archaeology <br />Consistent with the determinations of the 1983 EIR and 1996 Addendum, impacts <br />related to archaeology from implementation of the proposed Project would be less than <br />significant. Thus, no new or substantially greater impacts would occur with <br />implementation of the proposed Project when compared to those identified in the 1983 <br />EIR or 1996 Addendum. <br />Based on the foregoing, none of the conditions identified in CEQA Guidelines section <br />15162 that would trigger the need to prepare a subsequent or supplemental EIR or <br />other environmental document to evaluate Project impacts or mitigation measures exist <br />regarding archaeology. There have not been 1) changes to the Project that require <br />major revisions of the previous adopted EIR due to the involvement of new significant <br />environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified <br />effects; 2) substantial changes with respect to the circumstances under which the <br />Project is undertaken that require major revisions of the previous adopted EIR due to <br />the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the <br />severity of previously identified effects; or 3) the availability of new information of <br />substantial importance relating to significant effects or mitigation measures or <br />