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7 rehabilitating or restoring the impacted environment"; "or reducing or eliminating the impact over time by preservation and maintenance operations during the life of the action." (Guidelines, section 15370). B. Section 66474 (e) of the Subdivision Map Act states "a legislative body of a city or county shall deny approval of a tentative map or parcel map for which a tentative map was not required, if it makes any of the following findings:...(e) that the design of the subdivision or the proposed improvements are likely to cause substantial environmental damage or substantially and avoidably injure fish and wildlife or their habitat". In recent court cases, the court upheld that Section 66474(e) provides for environmental impact review separate from and independent of the requirements of CEQA (Topanga Assn. for a Scenic Community v. County of Los Angeles, 263 Cal. Rptr. 214 (1989).). The finding in Section 66474 is in addition to the requirements for the preparation of an EIR or Negative Declaration. H. Maintenance of breeding pairs and their habitat_ 1. Prevention of disturbance at the nest site. A. No disturbance should occur within 1/2 mile of an active nest between March 1 -August 15. If the nest tree is to be removed and fledglings are present, the nest tree may not be removed until September 15. If construction or other project related activities which may cause nest abandonment or forced fledging are proposed within this 1/2 mile buffer zone, intensive monitoring (funded by the project sponsor) by a Department approved raptor biologist will be required. Exact implementation of this measure will be based upon specific information at the project site. 2. Prevention of loss of nest trees. A. Projects should be designed to avoid direct and indirect impacts to nest trees. B. Revegetation of historical nesting habitat with suitable native nest trees species (e.g., oaks, cottonwoods, sycamores, etc.) adjacent to adequate forage habitat shall