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. . PERMIT NO. 6-94 (Issued on July 24, 1996, As Amended Through March 4, 2010) AMENDMENT NO. SIX (Exclusive of Amendment No. Four) City of Redwood City and Keech Properties, LLC Page 24 involves amendments to BCDC Permit Nos. M86-24, M87-70 and M98-10 (Exhibit H). In the Bay, the project authorizes the placement of approximately 80 cubic yards of fill covering an approximately 1,742-square-foot area of marsh in order to stabilize an eroding levee. The fill will be placed in a way to promote the establishment of marsh vegetation and replanted. The fill in the Bay has been designed to be the minimum fill necessary to maintain the levee's integrity, a levee which also provides public access on its top. Within the 100-foot shoreline band, Amendment No. Six authorizes placement of approximately 6,500 cubic yards of earth material covering an approximately 450,000-square- foot area, portions of which are located within a Wildlife Refuge Priority Use Area designated in the San Francisco Bay Plan Map No.6. This authorization includes raising portions of the existing levee by placing 6- to 30-inches of earth material along the entire levee top and constructing an approximately 1- to 3-foot-high berm along segments of the levee. All existing public access will be maintained. The Special Conditions for this amended permit continue to require that the permittee to coordinate with the u.s. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) every three years to review the status of the special status species whose presence on-site has led to closing the levee to public access, as well as possible modifications to the Endangered Species Act that might affect the current public access restrictions on the exterior levees. In the future, changes to the Endangered Species Act or the status of the endangered species on the site may trigger a Commission review of the public access in coordination with the State Lands Commission and other resource agencies and a requirement that the permittee provide access on these levees. In order to protect nearby marshes and special status species living within them, additional Special Conditions have been added to the permit to include Best Management Practices to protect the tidal marsh, such as installing a fiber roll and silt fence along the bayward edge of the levee above the high tide line, carefully removing, storing and replacing wetland vegetation by hand from construction areas, avoiding work at extreme high tides, and having a USFWS-approved biologist prior to and during construction on site to conduct pre construction surveys and monitoring the site during construction for the presence of special status species. In addition, the Special Conditions state that the permittee is responsible for restoring and annually monitoring the approximately 1,742-square-foot area of impacted marsh habitat by placing geo-cells along the bayward slope of the levee where needed, until at least 75% of the filled area is covered with native wetland plants, salvaging and replanting all pickleweed, saltgrass and other marsh vegetation from the.work area, and using a native grass seed mix with a biodegradable stabilizer emulsion to plant the upland levee slope. As conditioned, the work authorized in the Bay is similar to and has no greater impact than placing minor fill in the Bay for improving public access that complies with Regulation Section 10701 and that does not exceed 1,000 square feet in area, as defined in Regulation Section 10601(a)(S). The work authorized within the 100-foot shoreline band involves the placement of small amounts of inert inorganic fill that does not have a significant adverse effect on present or possible future maximum feasible public access to the Bay consistent with the project, on present or possible future use of a designated priority water-related use, and on the environment, as defined in Regulation Section 10601(b )(1) and Regulation Section 10601(b )(5),