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Soil Investigations for Data Collection in the Delta Initial Study/Proposed Mitigated Negative Declaration 206 3.21.1 Environmental Setting This Initial Study was prepared to assess the potential effects of the Proposed Project on the environment and significance of those effects. Due to the short term and temporary nature of the activities that comprise the Proposed Project, many potential significant impacts would be avoided or mitigated to less than significant with mitigation incorporated. With the implementation of Mitigation Measures and the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP), potential impacts to biological resources, cultural resources, greenhouse gas emissions, hazards and hazardous materials, tribal cultural resources, and wildfire resources from the Proposed Project would be avoided or reduced to less than significant with mitigation incorporated. The Proposed Project would result in no impacts to agricultural and forestry, land use and planning, population and housing, recreation, and utilities/service systems. Potential impacts to aesthetics, air quality, energy, geology and soils, hydrology and water quality, mineral resources, noise, public services, and transportation from the Proposed Project would be less than significant. 3.21.2 Discussion a) Does the project 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 with Mitigation Incorporated. As discussed in this Initial Study, the Proposed Project has the potential to impact biological resources, cultural resources, and tribal cultural resources but with the implementation of Mitigation Measures and the MMRP, the Proposed Project would not 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. b) Does the project have impacts that are individually limited but cumulatively considerable? (“Cumulatively considerable” meant that the incremental effects of a project are considerable when viewed in connection with the effects of past projects, the effects of the other current projects and the effects of probable future projects)? Less than Significant with Mitigation Incorporated. Cumulative effects include the effects of future State, tribal, local, or private actions that are reasonably certain to occur in the Study Area are considered in this study. Future federal actions that are