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1. INTRODUCTION measures adopted by the County as conditions of approval for the project will be included in a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program to verify compliance. 1.4 TERMINOLOGY This Draft EIR uses the following terminology to describe environmental effects of the Proposed Project: • Significance Criteria: A set of criteria used by the lead agency to determine at what level or`threshold"an impact would be considered significant. Significance criteria used in the _ EIR include those discussed in the CEQA Guidelines;criteria based on factual or scientific information; criteria based on regulatory standards of local,state, and federal agencies; and criteria based on goals and policies identified in the San Joaquin County General Plan. • Beneficial Impact: A project impact is considered beneficial if it would result in the improvement of an existing physical condition in the environment(no mitigation required). • Less-Than-Significant Impact: A project impact is considered less-than-significant if it would not reach the standard of significance and would therefore cause no substantial change in the environment(no mitigation required). • Potentially Significant Impact: A potentially significant impact is an environmental effect that may cause a substantial adverse change in the environment; however,additional information is needed regarding the extent of the impact to make the determination of " significance. For CEQA purposes,a potentially significant impact is treated as if it were a significant impact. • Significant Impact: A project impact is considered significant if it would result in a substantial adverse change in the physical conditions of the environment. Significant impacts are identified by the evaluation of project effects in the context of specified significance criteria. Mitigation measures and/or project alternatives are identified to reduce these effects to the environment. • Significant Unavoidable Impact: A project impact is considered significant and unavoidable if it would result in a substantial adverse change in the environment that could not be avoided or mitigated to a less-than-significant level if the project were implemented. • Cumulative Significant Impact: A cumulative impact can result when a change in the environment results from the incremental impact of a project when added to other related past,present, or reasonably foreseeable future projects. Significant cumulative impacts may result from individually minor but collectively significant projects. _ This EIR also identifies mitigation measures. The CEQA Guidelines(Section 15370)define mitigation as: (a) avoiding the impact altogether by not taking a certain action or parts of an action; (b) minimizing impacts by limiting the degree or magnitude of the action and its implementation; RMC Pacific Vemahs Quarry Mining and Reclamation Pmjccl 1-4 ESA/203015 —' Adminishalive Draft E02 Minch 2004