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Administrative Draft Environmental Impact Report Gill Medical Center Project Timing/Implementation: During the construction period Monitoring/Enforcement: County of San Joaquin Planning/Development Services Division 4.7.4 Cumulative Impacts The cumulative setting associated with the Proposed Project includes Project implementation in association with buildout of the San Joaquin County General Plan. The Existing Setting subsection above provides an overview of cultural resources and the history of the region. Approach to Assessing Cumulative Impact on Cultural Resources Section 15130 (a) of the California State CEQA Guidelines states: An EIR shall discuss cumulative impacts of a project when the project's incremental effect is cumulatively considerable, as defined in section 15065 (a)(3).Where a lead agency is examining a project with an incremental effect that is not "cumulatively considerable," a lead agency need not consider that effect significant, but shall briefly describe its basis for concluding that the incremental effect is not cumulatively considerable. According to the 2035 General Plan EIR, county policy provides for the protection of archaeological resources and human remains with the implementation of Policies NCR-6.5 and NCR-6.6.These policies are supplemented by state regulations and CEQA mitigation which provide protection of human remains. The General Plan finds that implementation of these policies and additional mitigation required at the project level would reduce cumulative impacts on archaeological resources, as well as human remains, to a less-than-significant level. With Mitigation Measures 4.7-1a and 4.7-3a incorporated, the direct impacts on cultural resources associated with the Proposed Project would be reduced to a less-than-significant level. Therefore, the Proposed Project impacts to unique archaeological resources, as well as human remains are considered less than cumulatively considerable. According to the General Plan EIR, implementation of General Plan policies may result in a "substantial adverse change" (physical demolition, destruction, relocation, or alteration of the resource or its immediate surroundings) to historic resources through various development activities for which no possible mitigation may be available to maintain the historic integrity of the affected resource or its surroundings. For this reason, cumulative impacts to historical resources were found to be significant and unavoidable by the general plan EIR (General Plan EIR Cumulative Impact 4.E-6).As discussed above, no historic resources were found on the project site during surveys. Should they be found, Mitigation Measure 4.7-1a would be implemented. Nonetheless, as discussed in the General Plan EIR, even with implementation of mitigation there remains the possibility that an unknown subsurface historic resource could be damaged to the point that it no longer maintains historic integrity or that of its surroundings. Therefore, the Project results in a cumulatively considerable contribution to this existing historic resource cumulative impact. The 2035 General Plan provides for the protection of historical resources through implementation of existing General Plan Policies NCR-6.1-4, NCR-6.7, NCR-7, and NCR-8. Mitigation Measures Biological Resources 4.7-16 October 2021