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Y MONK &ASSOCIATES Biological Resources, Impacts and Mitigations Q Tracy Facility Expansion Site impacts (i.e., one to six years) include loss of foraging and Benning habitat. During M&A's January 8, 1999 site visit,no evidence of American badger was observed on the project site. 'can badgers are mobile animals and could move onto the project site in Wever, since Amen g . Ho ed project are American badger from the propos p J tune years,It must be concluded that impacts#o Ame g be im lemented that would reduce this potentially significant. However,mitigation couldp impact to a level considered less than significant. 9 14.18 Mitigation Measure 9-American Badger implementation of the following mitigation would reduce impacts to American badger to a level considered less than significant. Thirty days prior to initiating work in a particular excavation area, a pre-construction survey should be conducted to determine the badger's presence or absence in that particular mining area. If badgers or their characteristic diggings are not identified during the pre-construction survey, no impacts to badgers would be expected to occur from mining in that area. . such, there wo-qld be no mitigation requirements. k If American badgers or their burrows are identified within a particular mining area,the burrows should-be flagged, and dependent upon the time of year work is scheduled to begin,one of the following two methods should be implemented to remove badgers from the site: (1)if construction would take place after July 1 and before March 1,one-way eviction boxes should be placed in the burrows to prevent death of individuals; or(2)if construction would take place between March 1 and July 1, during the time of year young are likely in the burrow and til dependent upon their mother,construction within 500 feet of shouldthen beaex eyed xcavated the young are old enough to leave the burrow. At that time, Before by hand to make sure no young are trapped inside that could be impacted during mining. implemented, CDFG and USFWS should be consult either of these removal procedures are ed. Badger removal should only be undertaken by a qualified wildlife biologist. Trapping and removal and reclamation of the project site after completion of mining would reduce impacts to American badger to a level considered less than significant. 14.19 Impact Number 10-San Joaquin Kit Fox Implementation of the project as proposed could result in impacts to the San Joaquin kit fox. The San Joaquin kit fox is State listed as threatened and Federal listed as endangered. The project as currently proposed would impact..approximately 137 acres of suitable kit fox habitat. Potential impacts to kit fox from the proposed project include entrapment and eventual death of individual kit foxes in their burrows, collisions with earth moving equipment; and temporary loss (i.e., one to six years) of foraging and denning habitat. While no surveys for kit fox have been conducted on the project site, the project site is located at the eastern edge of what is known as the kit fox"Core Conservation Area," and numerous kit fox sightings have been documented in the immediate project site vicinity over the past 20 years. Additionally,on December 20, 1993, the applicant met with USFWS, CDFG, San Joaquin County,M&A,and others to discuss the 36