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4.3 – Cultural and Tribal Cultural Resources Draft Environmental Impact Report February 2021 14800 W. Schulte Road Logistics Center 4.3-3 assumed that consultation is declined. To date, no responses have been received as a result of the County’s AB 52 consultation notification. Therefore, government-to-government consultation initiated by the County has not resulted, to date, in the identification of a TCR within or near the Project site. Table 4.3-1 summarizes the results of the AB 52 process for the Project. The confidential AB 52 consultation results are on file with the County. Table 4.3-1. Assembly Bill 52 Native American Tribal Outreach Results AB 52 Contact Method and Date of Notification Response to County Notification Letters California Valley Miwok Tribe Certified Mail; December 18, 2020 No response to date North Valley Yokuts Tribe Certified Mail; December 18, 2020 No response to date United Auburn Indian Community Certified Mail; December 18, 2020 No response to date California Tribal Tanf Partnership Certified Mail; December 18, 2020 No response to date Cultural Resources Director, Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians Certified Mail; December 18, 2020 No response to date Survey Dudek personnel conducted an intensive-level pedestrian survey of the Project site on October 12, 2020. The perimeter of the Project site consists of graded roadways and staging areas with retention basins along the northern end of the site adjacent to Schulte Road, and spoils piles more than 20 feet in height along the southern end of the site, north of an Owens Glass facility. Topsoil in the center of the Project site has been displaced, and an active excavation greater than 3 feet below the surface was ongoing on the date of the survey. Ground visibility varied across the Project site, but the majority of the site exhibited greater than 70% visibility. No cultural resources were identified within the Project site as a result of the survey. Paleontological Setting The following summary of the geological evolution of the Central Valley is summarized in the County’s General Plan EIR (County of San Joaquin 2014). During the Mesozoic Era (208–65 million years ago), the Sierra Nevada formed, but the region that would become the San Joaquin Valley lay several thousand feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. During the Late Cretaceous Period (75–65 million years ago), flowering plants, early dinosaurs, and the first birds and mammals appeared. The basic form of the Great Central Valley took shape during the Cenozoic period, first as islands, then as mountains. During the late Cenozoic Era (65–2 million years ago), the Sierra Nevada eroded to mere hills compared to their earlier appearance, the Coast Ranges rose, and the San Joaquin Valley began to form. During the Paleocene Epoch (65–53 million years ago), dinosaurs became extinct and mammals gradually evolved as the dominant group of animal life. During the Eocene Epoch (53–39 million years ago), the western edges of the San Joaquin Valley rose above sea level. Sedimentation and tectonic uplift of geological formations continued until two million years ago. In the subsequent Oligocene Epoch (39–23 million years ago), sedimentation continued, and during the Miocene Epoch (23–5 million years ago) the Diablo Range was uplifted. The Pliocene Epoch (5–2 million years ago) was a time of tremendous uplift, and great quantities of sediment eroded from the nearby mountain ranges accumulated in the valley, eventually forming a deposit thousands of feet thick. In the Pleistocene Epoch (2 million to 10,000 years ago), the Sierra Nevada range was increasingly elevated and glaciated, resulting in the formation of spectacular features such as Yosemite Valley. During the Holocene Epoch (10,000 y ears ago to the present), the San Joaquin Valley was above sea level and achieved its present appearance, 466 miles long and 19 to 50 miles wide, enclosed by the Siskiyou, Sierra Nevada, Tehachapi, and Coast Ranges on the north, east, south,