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4 Environmental Analysis <br /> 4.5 Cultural Resources <br /> P-01-10500 (Haera-Brockman-Griffith Ranch) is located at 20044 North Midway Road and is <br /> adjacent to the northwestern boundary of the Project area. The site was previously recorded by <br /> Foster Wheeler Environmental in 2002 as a ranch complex consisting of a wood-frame ranch <br /> house dating to the 1930s and several outbuildings. At the time of the 2002 recording, permission <br /> was not granted by the landowner to survey the property and the field team was unable to record <br /> the buildings in detail (Reeve 2002). This site was observed from the Project site during this field <br /> survey and the site form updated. <br /> Currently, the property consists of a fifth-wheel motorhome (currently occupied), livestock trailers, <br /> modern agricultural outbuildings, and a corral. The originally recorded wood-frame ranch house <br /> is no longer extant and was demolished or moved off the property by 2018 based on Google Earth <br /> imagery. The Department of Parks and Recreation 523 form was updated to reflect the current <br /> condition of the site (Farrell and Kitchel 2022). The property has lost its historic integrity and is <br /> unlikely to retain significance. <br /> Wooden pole transmission line. A historic transmission line runs adjacent to the 106-acre land <br /> parcel's southern boundary. It consists of single wooden poles with two wooden cross bars and <br /> ceramic insulators near the top of each pole. Based on stamped metal tags observed on the <br /> poles, the line has been maintained and updated with new poles since 1947 to recent times. No <br /> transmission line name was found on the poles. <br /> 4.5.4 Thresholds of Significance <br /> The following thresholds of significance are based on Appendix G of the CEQA Guidelines. <br /> Significance criteria pertaining to tribal cultural resources is addressed in Section 4.16 Tribal <br /> Cultural Resources. The proposed Project would have a significant impact to cultural resources if <br /> it would result in any of the following: <br /> oo Cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of a historical resource pursuant <br /> to Section 15064.5. <br /> oo Cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of an archaeological resource <br /> pursuant to Section 15064.5. <br /> oo Disturb any human remains, including those interred outside of formal cemeteries. <br /> 4.5.5 Impacts Analysis <br /> IMPACT 4.5-1: Would the project cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of a <br /> historical resource pursuant to Section 15064.5?(Less than Significant Impact) <br /> Based on the background studies and field surveys (Farrell and Kitchel 2022; Price et al. 2022), <br /> there are no historical resources within the boundaries of the Project site. Four historic-era linear <br /> resources were identified within the gen-tie corridor: P-39-005337 (the Tesla-Salado-Manteca <br /> 115-kV Transmission Line), the TLBTL, the TM230TL, and the TM500TL. None are eligible for <br /> listing in the CRHR and therefore do not qualify as historic resources. <br /> Two historic era-built environment resources with undetermined CRHR eligibility status are <br /> located outside of, but adjacent to, the Project site: the Haera-Brockman-Griffith Ranch (P-01- <br /> 10500), which is no longer extant, and a recent historic in-use wooden transmission line that has <br /> Griffith Energy Storage Project 4.5-16 Tetra Tech/SCH 2022120675 <br /> Draft Environmental Impact Report August 2023 <br />