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Administrative Draft Environmental Impact Report Gill Medical Center Project On August 13, 2020, the County sent a letter to Buena Vista Rancheria via email and U.S. certified mail initiating consultation under Section 21080.3.1(e) of the California Public Resources Code.A virtual meeting invitation was sent the same day following the email.The virtual meeting was scheduled for August 24, 2020 and the agenda included a discussion about the project, the potential for TCRs to exist, and if needed, appropriate mitigation measures. No representatives from Buena Vista called into the August 24 meeting. On August 25, 2020 Mr. Richard Hawkins, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer(THPO) for the Buena Vista Rancheria, called Theadora Fuerstenberg of ECORP Consulting, Inc., the County's consultant, and said Buena Vista still wanted to consult on the Project and requested the meeting be rescheduled to September 2, 2020. Mr. Hawkins stated that Buena Vista's concern is the proximity of the Project to Bear Creek, and he ultimately wanted to know more about the project to determine whether the tribe should have monitors present during project construction to address unanticipated discoveries of TCRs. A virtual meeting was held on September 2, 2020, with John Funderberg from San Joaquin County, Ms. Fuerstenberg from ECORP, and Mr. Hawkins from Buena Vista. Mr. Hawkins stated that Bear Creek was not as close to the Project Area as he originally thought, and he is, therefore, less concerned about buried TCRs in the Project Area. Mr. Hawkins said he would discuss the project with Buena Vista's Tribal Historic Preservation Committee on Wednesday September 9, 2020. Mr. Hawkins also said he will be retiring on September 11, 2020 and that Buena Vista's THPO, Mike Despain, would be taking over AB52 consultation for the Project after September 10, 2020. The County emailed Mr. Despain on September 18, 2020 acknowledging that he would be taking over consultation duties for Buena Vista on the Project.The County invited Mr. Despain to a virtual meeting on October 1, 2020 to discuss continued consultation on potential buried TCRs and Mr. Despain accepted. Mr. Despain was not in attendance at the October 1, 2020 meeting.The County sent a follow-up email to Mr. Despain on October 1, 2020 and again on October 12, 2020 asking him to confirm Buena Vista's interest in continuing AB52 consultation for the Project. To date, Buena Vista has not provided any information on TCRs to the County. 4.20.4 Tribal Cultural Resources Information about potential impacts to TCRs was drawn from: 1)the results of a search of the Sacred Lands File of the NAHC; 2) existing ethnographic information about pre-contact lifeways and settlement patterns; 3) information on archaeological site records obtained from surveys of the Project area and the California Historical Resources Information System (as relayed in ECORP 2020); and 4) the tribal consultation record under AB 52 for the Project between the County and Buena Vista Rancheria. 4.20.4.1 Sacred Lands File Search A search of the NAHC Sacred Lands File was requested on March 25, 2020.The NAHC responded on March 27, 2020, that the sacred lands file search was negative, which means that no sacred lands have been recorded within the Project area.The NAHC included a list of suggested tribal representatives to contact who may have more information.The Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians and the United Tribal Cultural Resources 4.20-6 October 2021