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City of Santa Ana Environmental Checklist materials could be unearthed during excavation and trenching activities associated with the proposed project. Therefore, construction of the proposed project may have the potential to disturb and destroy an unknown paleontological resource. Disturbance of any unknown buried paleontological resources could result in an adverse impact. Therefore, implementation of Mitigation Measure CR-2 would reduce the potentially significant impact to a less-than-significant level. Mitigation Measure CR-2: During grading excavation and trenching, the contractor will be responsible for notifying the City in the event that suspected paleontological resources are discovered. The City will require the applicant to retain a qualified professional paleontological monitor to assess the find, identify treatment options, and oversee further excavation and trenching. The qualified paleontological monitor will retain the option to reduce monitoring if, in his or her professional opinion, the sediments being monitored were previously disturbed. Monitoring may also be reduced if potentially fossiliferous units are not present or, if deposits are present, they are determined by qualified paleontological personnel to have a low potential to contain fossil resources. The monitor will be equipped to salvage fossils and samples of sediments as they are unearthed to avoid construction delays and will be empowered to temporarily halt or divert equipment to allow removal of abundant or large specimens. Recovered specimens will be prepared to a point of identification and permanent preservation, including washing of sediments to recover small invertebrates and vertebrates. Specimens will be curated into a professional, accredited museum repository with permanent retrievable storage. A report of findings, with an appended itemized inventory of specimens, will be prepared and will signify completion of the program to mitigate impacts on paleontological resources. d. Disturb any human remains, Including those interred outside of formal cemeteries? No Impact. The project site is not a formal cemetery and is not near a formal cemetery. The project vicinity is fully developed, and there is no record of human remains being identified during development of the area. In addition, the site is not known to be located on a burial ground. Therefore, it is highly unlikely the proposed project would disturb any human remains during construction. Should human remains be uncovered during construction, as specified by State Health and Safety Code Section 7050,5, no further disturbance will occur until the County Coroner has made the necessary findings as to origin and disposition pursuant to Public Resources Code 5097.99. If such a discovery occurs, excavation of, construction will halt in the area of the discovery, the area will be protected, and consultation and treatment will occur as prescribed by law. If the County Coroner recognizes the remains to be Native American, he or she will contact the Native American Heritage Commission, who will appoint the Most Likely Descendent. Additionally, if the bones are determined to be Native American, a plan will be developed regarding the treatment of human remains and associated burial objects, and the plan will be implemented under the direction of the Most Likely Descendent. Therefore, impacts on human remains would not occur from implementation of the project. The Bat Nha Buddhist Meditation Center 3-32 June 2013 initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration 1CF 00215.12 31 C-85