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Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page IV.F-9 Forward Inc. Landfill 2018 Expansion Project Table IV.F-1: Special-Status Animal Species Recorded from Project Region or Potentially Affected by Project Implementation Common Name Scientific Name Potentially Covered Impacted under SIMSCP tricolored blackbird Agelaius tricolor yes ides northern Circus cyaneus yes yes harrier merlin Falco columbarius no yes Western pond turtle Actinemys marmorata yes yes pale big-eared Corynorhinus townsendii pallescens yes yes bat ' small-footed Myotis ciliolabrum yes Yes myotis ' snowy egret Egretta thula no yes western red Lasiurus blossevillii yes yes bat Federally and State-Listed Species California Red-Legged Frog California red-legged frog (Rana draytonii,hereafter referred to as CRF)is federally listed as Threatened and is designated as a California Species of Special Concern. The CRF is distributed throughout 26 counties in California, including San Joaquin County. Breeding takes place in streams, deep pools,backwaters within streams and creeks,ponds,marshes, and stock ponds. CRF can occur in ephemeral ponds or permanent streams and ponds;however,populations probably cannot persist in ephemeral streams (Jennings and Hayes 1985).Breeding ponds are typically deep (greater than 2 feet)with still or slow-moving water and dense, shrubby riparian or emergent vegetation(Hayes and Jennings 1988—cited in USFWS 2002), although CRF have also been observed in shallow sections of streams and ponds that are devoid of vegetative cover. The project site is not located within federally designated CRF Critical Habitat. The CRF has not been recorded within an approximate 20-mile radius of the study area(CNDDB 2018), and the species is not expected to occur within the study area due to the lack of suitable breeding habitat within or adjacent to the study area, and the rarity of occurrences of CRF within the valley floor of the Central Valley (SJCOG 2000). Therefore,this species is not further addressed ' in this section.