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a. Have the potential to degrade the quality of the environment, substantially reduce the habitat of a fish or wildlife species, cause a fish or wildlife population to drop below self-sustaining levels,threaten to eliminate a plant or animal community, reduce the number or restrict the range of a rare or endangered plant or animal, or eliminate important examples of the major periods of California history or prehistory. Less than significant impact. Potential environmental impacts of the proposed project have been evaluated in the Environmental Impact Analysis Sections 1 through 16 of this Initial Study. The project has been designed to avoid and/or minimize potential impacts to existing plant and animal communities as described previously in the project description section. Implementation of the proposed project will not trigger any mandatory findings of significance. b. Have impacts that are individually limited but cumulatively considerable.As used in the subsection, "cumulatively considerable". ["Cumulatively considerable"means that the incremental effects of an individual project are considerable when viewed in connection with the effects of past projects, the effects of other current projects, and the effects of probable future projects] Less than significant impact. This interim remedial activity will be followed by a remedial investigation/feasibility study and a final RAP. The cumulative affects of the combined projects are not expected to have a significant impact because project activities would be of similar nature as those described herein and would incorporate similar conservation and control measures. The proposed project will not have cumulative effects through inducing the alteration of the location, distribution, density or growth rate of the human population of the area either directly or indirectly. The proposed project will not have cumulative affects on existing housing, public services, public infrastructure, or create demands for additional housing. The proposed project is expected to have temporary minor impacts to air quality and biological resources. Short-term air quality impacts associated with generated dust and emissions from heavy equipment could result from project activities. The project will incorporate measures to control possible short-term air quality impacts and to remain under the threshold provided by the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control Index to avoid significant impacts.Additionally, the project site is physically isolated from the adjacent industrial properties, thus, reducing the cumulative affects of multiple activities and adjacent properties. The proposed project is incorporating features beneficial to air quality, such as restoration of vegetative cover and improved soil quality, into the project design. No source of air pollution will result from the completed project. The proposed project is not expected to have cumulative adverse impacts to local or regional air quality. Temporary minor impacts to biological resources may result from project activities. Conservation measures to alleviate temporary impacts are described in Section 4- Biological Resources. The temporary impacts are primarily associated with the movement of heavy equipment and include disruption of wildlife foraging activity within the work vicinity and potential disturbance during the breeding season. Positive long-term affects to biological resources from the proposed project include improved habitat value, restoration of native vegetation, and conservation of resources. The proposed project is expected to have beneficial cumulative impacts to biological resources. The project has been designed to avoid and/or minimize potential cumulative impacts as described previously in the project description section.The implementation of this project will result in an environmentally beneficial cumulative impact through the remediation of soils on 46