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III. Environmental Setting, Impacts,and Mitigations <br /> F. Vegetation and Wildlife <br /> enhancement, and preservation, and for the filling of Little Johns Creek(see Impact F.1)would <br /> simultaneously provide replacement habitat for the California homed lark, mountain plover, <br /> northern loggerhead shrike, and northern harrier, all of which share similar foraging habitat <br /> requirements. <br /> Mitigation Measure F.5. <br /> Please refer to Mitigation Measures F.1. and F.3. <br /> Implementation of these mitigations would reduce the impact to a less than significant level. <br /> Impact F.6. Implementation of the proposed project would continue or slightly increase <br /> existing levels of night lighting of the site. (ADVERSE) <br /> Under current project plans, night lighting of portions of the landfill(e.g.,the location of the <br /> scale house) may be required. Given existing levels of on-site human activity and disturbance, <br /> increased night lighting is not expected to substantially affect wildlife species on the site and <br /> would not be considered a significant impact under State CEQA Guidelines. Implementation of <br /> the following measure would further decrease the magnitude of this impact. <br /> Mitigation Measure F.6. <br /> Identified by this EIR <br /> (a) The project proponent should minimize the use of lighting at night. If night lighting is <br /> required, sodium lamps with sharp cutoff angles are recommended to focus light in active <br /> landfill areas(target areas) and to avoid nighttime lighting of adjacent open areas and <br /> valley oak trees. Such lighting often discourages presence of nocturnal wildlife species <br /> (e.g.,owls, mice) as it renders prey species more susceptible to predation. <br /> This less than significant impact would be further reduced with the above mitigation measure. <br /> REFERENCES-Vegetation and Wildlife <br /> Bittman,Roxanne,botanist,California Department of Fish and Game Nongame Natural Heritage <br /> Division,personal communication,July 9, 1992. <br /> Beck and Associates,Final Design Study Report for the Austin Road Landfill Expansion, <br /> November 1992. <br /> III.F.30 <br />