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MITIGATION MONITORING PLAN Introduction Section 15097 of the California Environmental Quality Act(CEQA) requires all state and local agencies to establish monitoring or reporting programs for projects approved by a public agency whenever approval involves the adoption of either a"mitigated negative declaration"or specified environmental findings related to environmental impact reports. The following is the Mitigation Monitoring Plan for the Vernalis West and East project.The Plan includes a description of the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act and a compliance checklist.The project as approved includes mitigation measures. The intent of the Plan is to prescribe and enforce a means for properly and successfully implementing the mitigation measures as identified within the Environmental Impact Report for this project. Unless otherwise noted, the cost of implementing the mitigation measures as prescribed by this Plan shall be funded by the applicant. Compliance Checklist The Mitigation Monitoring Plan(MMP)contained herein is intended to satisfy the requirements of CEQA as they relate to the Environmental Impact Report for the Vernalis West and East Project prepared by San Joaquin County.This MMP is intended to be used by County staff and mitigation monitoring personnel to ensure compliance with mitigation measures during project implementation.Mitigation measures identified in this MMP were developed in the Environmental Impact Report prepared for the proposed project. The Vernalis West and East Project Environmental Impact Report presents a detailed set of mitigation measures that will be implemented throughout the lifetime of the project.Mitigation is defined by CEQA as a measure which does one or more of the following: • Avoids the impact altogether by not taking a certain action or parts of an action. • Minimizes impacts by limiting the degree or magnitude of the action and its implementation. • Rectifies the impact by repairing,rehabilitating,or restoring the impacted environment. • Reduces or eliminates the impact over time by preservation and maintenance operations during the life of the project. • Compensates for the impact by replacing or providing substitute resources or environments. The intent of the MMP is to ensure the effective implementation and enforcement of adopted mitigation measures and permit conditions.The MMP will provide for monitoring of construction activities as necessary and in-the-field identification and resolution of environmental concerns. Monitoring and documenting the implementation of mitigation measures will be coordinated by San Joaquin County. Table 1 Identifies the mitigation measure, the monitoring action for the mitigation measure, the responsible party for the monitoring action, and timing of the monitoring action. The applicant will be responsible for fully understanding and effectively Implementing the mitigation measures contained within the MMP.San Joaquin County will be responsible for ensuring compliance. During the ongoing mining operations associated with the project,the County will assign an inspector who will be responsible for field monitoring of mitigation measure compliance.The inspector will report to the County Community Development Department and will be thoroughly familiar with permit conditions and the MMP.In addition,the inspector will be familiar with aggregate mining contract requirements,mining San Joaquin County PA-0600028,PA-05008471Teichert Aggregates Community Development Page 26 PA-0500847—Conditions of Approval and Monitoring and Mitigation Reporting Plan 9