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CD-086-06, Navy Training ExercisesSouthern CaliforniaPage 14Since the Navy has raised no issue of practicability, as so defined, the standard before theCommission is full consistency with the policies of the California Coastal ManagementProgram (CPRC §§ 30200-30265.5).IV. FINDINGS AND DECLARATIONS:The Commission finds and declares as follows:A. Marine Resources/Coastal Waters/Environmentally Sensitive Habitat. TheCoastal Act provides:Section 30230: Marine resources shall be maintained, enhanced, and where feasible,restored. Special protection shall be given to areas and species of special biological oreconomic significance. Uses of the marine environment shall be carried out in amanner that will sustain the biological productivity of coastal waters and that willmaintain healthy populations of all species of marine organisms adequate for long-termcommercial, recreational, scientific, and educational purposes.Section 30231: The biological productivity and the quality of coastal waters, streams,wetlands, estuaries, and lakes appropriate to maintain optimum populations of marineorganisms and for the protection of human health shall be maintained and, wherefeasible, restored through, among other means, minimizing adverse effects of wastewater discharges and entrainment, controlling runoff, preventing depletion of groundwater supplies and substantial interference with surface water flow, encouraging wastewater reclamation, maintaining natural vegetation buffer areas that protect riparianhabitats, and minimizing alteration of natural streams.Section 30240: (a) Environmentally sensitive habitat areas shall be protected againstany significant disruption of habitat values, and only uses dependent on those resourcesshall be allowed within those areas.(b) Development in areas adjacent to environmentally sensitive habitatareas and parks and recreation areas shall be sited and designed to prevent impactswhich would significantly degrade those areas, and shall be compatible with thecontinuance of those habitat and recreation areas.Sensitive marine species in the project areas include marine mammals and sea turtles, kelpbeds, white abalone, and essential fish habitat. Potentially affected onshore species includesnowy plovers at Camp Pendleton and the Silver Strand peninsula, and loggerhead shrikes andthe island night lizard on San Clemente Island (Exhibits 5 & 6). The Navy’s consistencydetermination focuses on the five types of exercises occurring within the coastal zone andhaving the potential to affect coastal zone resources. The Navy states: