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122 probability of finding archaeological resources in the planning area, including tribal cultural resources, would be moderate to high. In fact, two shell mounds have been identified in the past, one located on Main Street near Woodside Road and another near the Union Cemetery, although both have since been leveled and built upon (Focused GPU program EIR, p. 4.18-1). However, the project component site is located within a half-mile of a recent discovery of tribal cultural resources. The NWIC records search discussed above in item a.i) stated that no cultural resource studies have been conducted for the project component site. The NWIC records search also determined that the potential for encountering unrecorded Native American resources within the proposed project component site is “moderate” (NWIC, October 9, 2023, p. 2). Accordingly, although the project component site has been developed and is presently mostly covered with asphalt, buildings, or fill that obscures the visibility of original surface soils, NWIC includes, as suggested protocols, archival research and a field examination. This research and examination would necessarily need to occur prior to demolition or other ground disturbance activities and would also need to be conducted by a qualified archaeologist. As explained by NWIC (p. 4), some of the steps the field study may include would be “hand auger sampling, shovel test units, or geoarchaeological analyses as well as other common methods used to identify the presence of buried archaeological resources.” The project component would be required to comply with the following Focused GPU program EIR mitigation measures: Mitigation Measure TCR-2a regarding encountering human remains during ground-disturbing activities; and Mitigation Measure TCR-2b regarding construction crews training for identifying federal or state-eligible cultural resources (similar to Mitigation Measure TCR-1b noted previously). As discussed earlier in item V, Cultural Resources, of this checklist, the proposed project component would not cause a potentially significant impact to any known (recorded) archaeological or cultural resources in the vicinity of the project component site. Project compliance with Mitigation Measure TCR-2 would ensure that impacts related to the project component on tribal cultural resources would be less-than-significant, and shall be required as a condition of approval for the project component. No new or more severe impacts are anticipated that what was analyzed in the Focused GPU EIR, and there is no new information of substantial importance for CEQA purposes. CONCLUSION: With regards to the issue area of Tribal Cultural Resources, the following findings can be made: (1) no peculiar impacts to the 847 Woodside project component or its site have been identified, (2) there are no potentially significant effects or off-site and/or cumulative impacts which were not discussed by the Focused GPU EIR, (3) no substantial new information has been identified which results in an impact which is more severe than anticipated by the Focused GPU EIR, and (4) feasible mitigation measures contained within the Focused GPU EIR would be applied to the project component and render its specific impacts less than significant. For these reasons, the tribal cultural resources impacts of the proposed project component would be consistent with the impacts identified in the Focused GPU EIR and this project component does not require additional environmental review under CEQA Guidelines section 15183. ATTY/RESO.0074/CC RESO 847 WOODSIDE (CEQA) - EXHIBIT 1 - CEQA CONSISTENCY CHECKLIST REV: 10-23-24 VR Page 122 of 135