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i ATTACHMENT D FINDINGS OF SIGNIFICANT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS IDENTIFIED IN THE RIVER OAKS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT Section 15901(a) of the -State CECA Guidelines'states: (a) . No public agency shall approve or cavy out a project for which an El has been completed which identifies one or more significant environmental effects of the project unless the public agency makes one or more written findings for each of those significant effects, accarnpariled by a brief explanation of the rationale for each.ftnding. The passible findings are: (1) Changes or atteratlons have been required In, or Incorporated Into, the project which avoid or substantially lessen the significant environmental effect as Identified In the Final EIR. (2) Such changes or alterzdons are within the responsibirrty and jurisdiction of another public agency and not the agency making the finding. Such changes have been adopted by j such other agency or can and should be adopted by such other agency. (3) Speck economic, social, or other considerations make infeasible any mitigation measures or project afternatives Identified In the Final EIR. The County of San Joaquin('County'),the lead agency under CECA,has approved the Major Subdivision application and adopted the findings listed below. An of the mitigation measures listed In conjunction with each finding will be implemented by the project applicant('Applicant'), resulting In the project having no significant adverse environmentai impacts except for those items listed on the following pages for which Statements of Overriding Considerations have been adopted. 1. POTENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS OF THE PROJECT WHICH ARE AVOIDED OR SUBSTANTIALLY LESSENED A. BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES A i. Potential Si niffcant impact. Swainson's hawk pair that nested on the site during the 1990 breedinci season mav be discouraged from retumin . Development may discourage the pair of Swalriscn's hawks who used a nest on the site In 1.990 from returning to the nest site. It Is also not known if this pair returned to the nest site during the 1991 and 1992 breeding season. Construction activities on the site during the breeding season could cause :testing pairs to abandon their nests. Finding: _ Changes or alterations have been required In, or Incorporated Into, the project which avoid or substantially lessen the significant environmental effect as Identified In the Final EIR. These