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REVISIONS TO THE DEIS B o u l d e r B a y C o m m u n i t y E n h a n c e m e n t P r o g r a m P r o j e c t E I S top of the under ground infiltration galleries and will include water quality interpretive signage. Mitigation Measure REC-1 in DEIS Chapter 4.6 has been revised as follows: REC-1: Beach Access Shuttle Service and Beach Maintenance Funding Boulder Bay will operate their van shuttle service as follows to reduce potential impacts to Lake Tahoe beaches from increased visitation: • To reduce impacts to Speedboat Beach, Boulder Bay shall not provide guests with van service to Speedboat Beach. Although access to Speedboat Beach cannot be restricted, as it is a public beach, the resort shall not promote the use of Speedboat Beach in informational materials or provide shuttle service to the beach to avoid overcrowding and environmental degradation that may result from overuse. Furthermore, the lack of amenities and constraints at Speedboat Beach will be noted to discourage visitors. Boulder Bay will coordinate with Placer County and will provide sufficient funding to Placer County for beach maintenance staffing and trash removal. • Because the Kings Beach State Recreation Area and Lake Tahoe-Nevada State Park (Sand Harbor) beaches are the largest public beaches in the area and offer more tourist attractions (boat rentals, picnic grounds, restrooms, etc.), Boulder Bay will encourage guests to visit these beaches rather than Speedboat Beach. Coordination will occur regularly with both recreation areas prior to shuttle services to these sites. • Boulder Bay shall offer the general public (e.g., Crystal Bay and Brockway residents and guests) use of their proposed on call van service during peak summer months (e.g., Memorial Day to Labor Day) to supplement the other Boulder Bay funded improvements to existing public transit systems (e.g., Crystal Bay to Tahoe Vista Trolley). Boulder Bay may charge non Boulder Bay guests and residents a nominal fee (e.g., similar to a taxi) to use the van service and shall market the service to local residents and visitors of other developments. The use of the Boulder Bay on call van service by non-Boulder Bay guests and residents will reduce the number of private automobiles used to access nearby recreational facilities (e.g., beaches) during peak summer months, thereby improving access for other non-Boulder Bay visitors to the Lake Tahoe Basin. To avoid overcrowding of area beaches and a reduction in the quality of the recreational experience, the Boulder Bay on call van service will coordinate with the Kings Beach State Recreation Area and Lake Tahoe-Nevada State Park on peak summer weekends to determine capacity prior to each dropoff. When visitors are dropped off, the van attendant shall discuss capacity with the parking attendant to determine if additional persons may be brought to the site and the van attendant shall note the number of people dropped off and picked up from each beach. During peak periods, van service may operate hourly or more, depending on demand. Boulder Bay shall establish a regular schedule to maintain an organized system of beach visitor accounting. If the beaches should reach parking capacity, guests will be encouraged to wait until later in the day when beach facilities typically empty out. PAGE 9- 2 HAUGE BRUECK ASSOCIATES SEPTEMBER 8 , 2010
REVISIONS TO THE DEIS B o u l d e r B a y C o m m u n i t y E n h a n c e m e n t P r o g r a m P r o j e c t E I S • Boulder Bay shall help pay for trash removal operations at Speedboat Beach by working with Placer County to increase the number of trash removal visits to the Beach during peak use periods. Based on its request, Placer County shall take the lead in securing an agreement with Boulder Bay to help offset the costs of the additional trash removal operations. Mitigation Measure REC-1B has been added to DEIS Chapter 4.6 as follows: REC-1B: Stateline Lookout Access Improvements. Boulder Bay will work with the USDA Forest Service to identify areas where additional access signage may be placed and if access point improvements are warranted. If necessary, such improvements will be funded by Boulder Bay. Recreation access signage or information shall be provided at the resort, informing guests of trailhead locations and access routes. Boulder Bay will work with the USDA Forest Service to improve existing parking areas and signage to reduce erosion potential. Coordination shall occur prior to construction and improvements, if approved by the USDA Forest Service, will be immediately funded by Boulder Bay and implemented within the first year of resort operation. Page 4.7-2 of DEIS Chapter 4.7 has been revised as follows: Ethnography The project area lies entirely within the territory of the Hokan-speaking Washoe people. While they were an informal and flexible political collectivity, Washoe ethnography hints at a level of technological specialization and social complexity for Washoe groups, non-characteristic of their surrounding neighbors in the Great Basin. Semisedentism and higher population densities, concepts of private property, and communal labor and ownership were reported and may have developed in conjunction with their residential and subsistence resource stability (d’Azevedo 1986:473-476). Lake Tahoe was and remains both the spiritual and physical center of the Washoe world. The Washoe lived along its shores, and the locations of several Washoe encampments in the Lake Tahoe Basin have been reported. The project vicinity is near two important Washoe fishing campsites, ImgiwO'tha and MathOcahuwo'tha (d’Azevedo 1986:473-476). Currently, The Washoe Tribe is are a federally recognized tribe by the U.S. Government, is a sovereign government and has have maintained an established land base. Its approximately 1,200 1,600 tribal members are governed by a tribal council that consists of members of the Carson, Dresslerville, Woodfords, Stewart and Reno-Sparks communities, Indian groups, as well as a significant number of tribal members from non-reservation areas (Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada 1995 and Darrel Cruz, Personal Communication, December 16, 2009). SEPTEMBER 8 , 2010 HAUGE BRUECK ASSOCIATES PAGE 9- 3
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