Final Mitigated Negative Declaration and Response to Comments

than attachment and monitoring of proper recovery. After all barriers and weighting
materials are removed from the lake bottom, they will be delivered to an established
decontamination station. Decontamination will occur using high pressure, high
temperature (140 degrees or greater) wash stations to remove any clam, algal, or other
remaining biological material. This decontamination will occur at sites established and
operated by resource management and regulatory agencies in the Lake Tahoe Basin
that manage the Tahoe Boat Inspection Program.
2.6 PROJECT REQUIREMENTS
Under CEQA, the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) has the distinction of
being considered a lead agency, a public agency that has the primary responsibility for
carrying out or approving a project and for implementing CEQA. A responsible agency
is a public agency other than the lead agency that has responsibility for carrying out or
approving a project and for complying with CEQA. A trustee agency is a state agency
having jurisdiction by law over natural resources affected by a project that are held in
trust for the people of the State of California. With this distinction comes the
responsibility to ensure that actions that protect both cultural and natural resources are
always taken on all projects. Therefore, DPR maintains a list of Project Requirements
that are included in project design to reduce impacts to resources.
DPR has developed a list of Standard Project Requirements that are actions that have
been standardized statewide for the use of avoiding significant project-related impacts
to the environment. From this list, standard project requirements are assigned, as
appropriate to all projects. For example, projects that include ground-disturbing
activities such as trenching would always include standard project requirements
addressing the inadvertent discovery of archaeological artifacts. However, for a project
that replaces a roof on an historic structure, ground disturbance would not be
necessary; therefore standard project requirements for ground disturbance would not be
applicable and would not be assigned to the project.
DPR also makes use of specific project requirements. These are project requirements
that are developed to address project impacts for projects that have unique issues; they
would not typically be standardized for projects statewide.
2.9 CONSISTENCY WITH LOCAL PLANS AND POLICIES
The project is consistent with the DPR mission and its management directives aimed at
preserving the state’s extraordinary biological diversity and protecting valued natural
resources. The proposed project is consistent with local plans and policies currently in
effect and is being coordinated with other agencies in the Tahoe Basin. Please see
Chapter 3, Section X, Land Use and Planning, for further details.
Asian Clam Control Project IS/MND
Emerald Bay State Park
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