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Soil Investigations for Data Collection in the Delta Initial Study/Proposed Mitigated Negative Declaration 159 b. Create a significant hazard to the public or the environment through reasonably foreseeable upset and/or accident conditions involving the release of hazardous materials into the environment? Less than Significant Impact with Mitigation Incorporated. The Proposed Project would require the use of vehicles and equipment that may have a slight potential for accidentally spilling oil or fuel. The previously noted Hazardous Materials Plan would include procedures for responding to accidental releases. To reduce potential impacts to less than significant, Proposed Project activities would incorporate Mitigation Measures MM HAZ-1, MM HAZ-2 and MM HAZ-3 which would be employed to prevent stockpiling and an accidental release or spill from occurring and containing an accidental release or spill if it did occur. MM HAZ-3: a. Stockpiling materials, portable equipment, vehicles, and supplies, including chemicals, will be restricted to areas adjacent to the drill or CPT rig, and not adjacent or within riparian and wetlands areas or other sensitive habitats b. Stockpiling materials, portable equipment, vehicles, and supplies, including chemicals, will be restricted to docks or within the drill barge or ship. c. Emit hazardous emissions or handle hazardous or acutely hazardous materials, substances, or waste within one-quarter mile of an existing or proposed school? No Impact. There are no schools within one-quarter mile of an Impact Area and only one school, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Geographic Information Sciences and Technology Group, within one half mile of any Impact Area. Since significant quantities of hazardous materials would not be used during Proposed Project activities, no impacts to existing or proposed schools are anticipated to occur. While there would be no impact, implementation of Mitigation Measures MM HAZ-1, MM HAZ-2, and PUB-1 would further avoid, minimize and/or reduce the potential for impacts. d. Be located on a site which is included on a list of hazardous materials sites compiled pursuant to Government Code §65962.5 and, as a result, would it create a significant hazard to the public or the environment? No Impact. The Impact Areas are not included on any lists of hazardous materials sites maintained by the State Water Resources Control Board or the Department of Toxic Substances Control that are compiled pursuant to Government Code Section 65962.5. Thus, Proposed Project activities would not create a significant hazard to the public or the environment and therefore no impacts would occur.