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Administrative Draft Environmental Impact Report Gill Medical Center Project Auburn Indian Community were on the list of tribes to contact. Both of these tribes were offered an opportunity to consult, as summarized above. 4.20.4.2 Ethnographic Information The ethnographic information reviewed for the Project, including ethnographic maps (Levy 1978; Wallace 1978) lists the nearest Native American village along the Mokelumne River six miles north of the Project Area, and also indicated that the Northern Valley Yokuts territory of Ja(a(on is directly south of the Project Area although no villages are mapped in the territory. Ethnographic literature from Barret and Gifford (1933) indicated that most of the pre-contact habitation sites located along waterways in the San Juaquin valley were wiped out during land and water reclamation efforts for agricultural endeavors in the nineteenth century.Although there is nothing in the ethnographic literature that suggests that the Project location is known to have ethnographic villages or resources within its boundaries, the significant land and water changes may have obscured or obliterated small unmapped or unrecorded habitation sites. However, this possibility remains relatively low due to the lack of nearby ethnographic areas mentioned in the literature. 4.20.4.3 Archaeological Site Records The entire Project Area was subjected to an archaeological survey and records search review, and no Native American sites were identified within its boundaries. In addition, approximately 15 percent of the area within a 0.5-mile radius surrounding the Project Area has been subject to cultural surveys; no pre- contact archaeological sites have been previously recorded in the vicinity.A pedestrian survey was completed for the Project Area (ECORP 2020) and identified only two historic period resources related to agriculture and ranching. No sites associated with Native American culture were found during the survey. Additional information about these non-Native American cultural resources can be found in Chapter 4.7 of this Draft EIR. 4.20.4.4 Tribal Consultation Results Buena Vista did not identify any TCRs within the Project Area. However, based on the information provided by the tribe, there remains a possibility that undiscovered TCRs could become known during construction. 4.20.5 Environmental Impacts and Mitigation Measures 4.20.5.1 Thresholds of Significance Following Appendix G of the CEQA Guidelines, TCR impacts are considered to be significant if the project would result in any of the following: 1. Would the project cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of a tribal cultural resource, defined in PRC § 21074 as either a site, feature, place, cultural landscape that is geographically defined in terms of the size and scope of the landscape, sacred place, or object with cultural value to a California Native American tribe, and that is: Tribal Cultural Resources 4.20-7 October 2021