Item 28 - Public Hearing - ZOA No. 20204-01 South Coast Technology Center

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South Coast Technology Center Project CEQA Exemption 15183 a qualified archaeologist be retained on -call. Upon implementation of GPU PEIR MM CUL-7, impacts related to archaeological resources would be less than significant. As discussed above, the Project Site is located in an urbanized area and most of the site has been previously graded and developed. Therefore, the potential for uncovering human remains on the Project Site is low. Therefore, similar to the conclusion in the GPU PEIR, compliance with California Health and Safety Code Section 7050.5 (RR CUL-1) and Public Resources Code Section 5097.98 would ensure that Project impacts to human remains would be less than significant. Based on the above, the Project would not result in new or substantially more severe impacts compared to the determinations of the GPU PEIR, which concluded that impacts to historical resources would be significant and unavoidable and impacts to archaeological resources and human remains would be less than significant. Therefore, no new project -specific mitigation measures are required. 4.5.3 Conclusion The Project is consistent with the General Plan Update. With implementation of RR CUL-1 and Mitigation Measure CUL-7, the proposed Project would not have any specific effects which are peculiar to the Project or the Project Site. There are no project -specific impacts or potentially significant off -site or cumulative impacts that the GPU PEIR did not analyze, and there are no new significant or substantially more severe cultural resource impacts than anticipated by the GPU PEIR. 4.5.4 Applicable GPU PEIR Regulatory Requirements/Mitigation Measures: RR CUL-1 California Health and Safety Code Section 7050.5 requires that if human remains are discovered within the proposed project site, disturbance of the site shall halt and remain halted until the coroner has investigated the circumstances, manner, and cause of any death, and the recommendations concerning the treatment and disposition of the human remains have been made to the person responsible for the excavation, or to his or her authorized representative. If the coroner determines that the remains are not subject to his or her authority and if the coroner recognizes or has reason to believe the human remains to be those of a Native American, he or she shall contact, by telephone within 24 hours, the Native American Heritage Commission. MM CUL-4" For projects with ground disturbance—e.g., grading, excavation, trenching, boring, or demolition that extend below the current grade —prior to issuance of any permits required to conduct ground -disturbing activities, the City shall require an Archaeological Resources Assessment be conducted under the supervision of an archaeologist that meets the Secretary of the Interior's Professionally Qualified Standards in either prehistoric or historic archaeology. Assessments shall include a California Historical Resources Information System records search at the South Central Coastal Information Center and of the Sacred Land Files maintained by the Native American Heritage Commission. The records searches will determine if the proposed project area has been previously surveyed 17 The Cultural and Paleontological Resources Identification Memorandum (Attachment C) was prepared to fulfill the requirements of GPU PER MM CUL-4. July 2024 Page 39