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LETTER OF COMMENT
The following steps are required in order to rectify the problems with the DEIR's treatment of
cultural resources:
1. The applicant roust retain the services of a qualified archaeologist (mitigation measure CR -1
uses the term -San Diego County - certifier) archaeologist") to obtain records searches for the
H-5 project area.
I The project archaeologist must complete a survey of the project area if it has not been
H -6 surv=eyed in the past five years. Any sites discovered must be tested to provide sufficient
information to determine site significance.
3- The project archaeologist must prepare, for public review_ a report describing the results of
the archival and field research, stating the anticipated impacts (direct, indirect and
cumulative) of the project and its alternatives, and recommending appropriate mitigation
H -7 measures. Such measures may include avoidance of identified sites (with necessary means to
ensure they are, in practice, avoided), anlJor salvage excavation of an adequate sample of
sites that cannot be avoided, and/or an archaeological monitoring program similc to the one
descri bed in Section 4.7.
Please provide the cultural resources report, NN hen it is completed, to us for our review and
comment. The DFIR, as circulated, does not provide the CEQA- required disclosure to the public
of a qualified professional archaeologist's assessment of the project's environmental impacts and
the necessary mitigation measures.
Sincerely,
James W. Royle, Jr., Chairperson
Environmental Review Committee
cc: SDCAS President
File
P.O. Box 83106 . San Diego, CA 92138 -1108 + (858) 538 -0935
RESPONSE
H -5. A records search was undertaken for the 2006 Otay Ranch Pit Amended
Reclamation Plan Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration, which was
referenced in preparation of the Cultural Resources Letter for the Otay Valley
Quarry Reclamation Plan Amendment.
H -6. The results of the records search did not yield any significant resource sites. As a
result, no site survey was undertaken. Additionally, mitigation measures have been
included within the EIR to take precautions should previously unknown significant
resources be discovered during the reclamation process.
H -7. This information has been provided in the cultural resources letter and Section 4.7
of the Otay Valley Quarry Reclamation Plan Amendment EIR.
OTAY VALLEY QUARRY RECLAMATION PLAN AMENDMENT EIR Response to Comments - 24
June 2011