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6. OTHER STATUTORY CONSIDERATIONS HAZARDS AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS There are no significant cumulative hazards and hazardous materials impacts. 6.3 SIGNIFICANT UNAVOIDABLE ADVERSE IMPACTS 6.3.1 INTRODUCTION The CEQA Section 21100(b)(2)and CEQA Guidelines Section 15126.2(6) require that any significant and unavoidable effect on the environment must be identified. In addition, Section 15093(a)of the CEQA Guidelines allows the decision-making agency to determine if the benefits of a Proposed Project outweigh the unavoidable adverse environmental impacts of implementing the project. The County can approve a project with unavoidable adverse impacts if it prepares and adopts a "Statement of Overriding Considerations" setting forth the speck reasons for making such a judgment. A list of unavoidable adverse impacts identified in this EIR is provided below. For each of the unavoidable adverse impacts,the County must prepare and adopt a Statement of Overriding Considerations if the County approves the project. 6.3.2 UNAVOIDABLE ADVERSE IMPACTS LAND USE The impacts discussed below regarding Agricultural Resources,Air Quality,Hydrology and Water Quality,and Visual Resources are significant and unavoidable. Therefore, land use impacts associated with these resource sections are considered significant and unavoidable. AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES Implementation of the Proposed Project would result in the conversion of prime farmland and .. farmland of statewide importance. Even with the mitigation of the applicant or successors-in- interest funding an agricultural land easement through the American Farmland Trust(or other suitable organization)and proposed reclamation to agricultural, since the unaltered prime farm land can never be replaced,the Proposed Project would result in a significant and unavoidable adverse impact on local and regional agricultural resources. HYDROLOGYAND WATER QUALITY Mining out Hospital Creek and constructing a berm to form a large detention basin(Haul Route Option 2)would substantially alter the natural hydrology of Hospital Creek. This option would permanently remove surface water flows from the reach of Hospital Creek downstream of the proposed mining operations leading to depletion of flows to downstream receiving water bodies, reduction of surface water available for localized infiltration, or elimination of adequate water flow for aquatic and riparian habitats. Removal of Hospital Creek from within the boundaries of the project site could result in adverse impacts to downstream hydrology and recharge and there RMC Pacx&Vemahs Quany Mining and Reclamation Project 6-15 FSA/703015 Adminisu Ww Draft FIL Mara 2004 a.