WSP06512

• File Number: 8220.200.02.I
• Description: Southern Nevada Water Project
• State: NV
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/1/1995
• Author: Dames & Moore
• Title: Environmental Assessment of the Colorado River Commission's Proposed Southern Nevada Water System Facilities Improvement Project
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: EIS

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6.1.3.1 Legal Destg1Ultio1lS of SellSltive Resources .............. 6-S

6.1.3.2 Sensitive Plants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ~
6.1.3.3 Sensitive Wildlife. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6-7
6.1.3.4 SellSltive Habitats ............................ 6-8
6.2 ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES .......................... 6-9

6.2.1 Botanical Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6-9
6.2.2 Wildlife Resources ................................. 6-9
6.2.3 Seusitive Biological Resources .......................... 6-9

6.2.3.1 Sensitive Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6-9

6.2.3.2 SellSltive WIldlife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6-9
6.2.3.3 SellSltive Habitats ........................... 6-10
6.3 MITIGATION MEASURES ............................... 6-11

6.3.1 Botanical Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11
6.3.2 Wildlife Resources ................................ 6-11
6.3.3 Seusitive Biological Resources ......................... 6-11
6.3.3.1 Sensitive Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11
6.3.3.2 SensItive WIldlife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-12
6.3.3.3 SellSltive Habitats ........................... 6-12
6.4 ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE NO ACTION

ALTERNATIVE ...................................... 6-12

7.0 LAND USE AND RECREATION ................................... 7-1
7.1 AFFECI'ED ENVIRONMENT .............................. 7-1

7.1.1 Rural Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7-1

7.1.2 Urban Setting .................................... 7..(,
7.2 ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES ....................... 7-11
7.3 MITIGATION MEASURES ............................... 7-12
7.4 ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE NO ACTION

ALTERNATIVE ...................................... 7-12

8.0 CULTURAL RESOURCES ....................................... 8-1
8.1 AFFECI'ED ENVIRONMENT .............................. 8-1
8.2 ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES ........................ 8-1
8.3 MITIGATION MEASURES ................................ 8-1
8.4 ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE NO ACTION

ALTERNATIVE ....................................... 8-1

9.0 PALEONTOLOGIC RESOURCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9-1
9.1 AFFECTED ENVIRONMENT .............................. 9-1
9.1.1 Potentially Fossiliferous Sediments ....................... 9-1
9.1.2 Quaternary-Age Packrat Middens ........................ 9-2
9.1.3 Levels of Paleontologic Seusitivity ....................... 9-2

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