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Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page II-37 Forward Inc. Landfill 2018 Expansion Project 2. Limit vegetation clearing within 200 feet of the banks of potential giant garter snake aquatic habitat to the minimal area necessary. 3. Confine the movement of heavy equipment within 200 feet of the banks of potential giant garter snake aquatic habitat to existing roadways to minimize habitat disturbance. 4. Prior to ground disturbance, all on-site construction personnel shall be given instruction regarding the presence of SJMSCP Covered Species and the importance of avoiding impacts to these species and their habitats. 5. In areas where wetlands,irrigation ditches,marsh areas or other potential giant garter snake habitats are being retained on the site: a. Install temporary fencing at the edge of the construction area and the adjacent wetland,marsh, or ditch; b. Restrict working areas, spoils and equipment storage and other project activities to areas outside of marshes,wetlands and ditches; and c. Maintain water quality and limit construction runoff into wetland areas through the use of hay bales, filter fences,vegetative buffer strips, or other accepted equivalents. 6. If on-site wetlands, irrigation ditches,marshes, etc. are being relocated in the vicinity: the newly created aquatic habitat shall be created and filled with water prior to dewatering and destroying the pre-existing aquatic habitat. In addition, non-predatory fish species that exist in the aquatic habitat and which are to be relocated shall be seined and transported to the new aquatic habitat as the old site is dewatered. 7. If wetlands, irrigation ditches,marshes, etc. will not be relocated in the vicinity, then the aquatic habitat shall be dewatered at least two weeks prior to commencing construction. 8. Pre-construction surveys for the giant garter snake (conducted after