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APPENDIX C - REFERENCES

Chapter 1 Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 1980. California Desert Conservation Area (CDCA) Plan. [http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/ca/pdf/caso/publications.Par.67970.File.dat/CDCA.pdf] Bureau of Land Management (BLM) National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Handbook. January 2008. [http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/wo/Information_Resources_Management/policy/blm_h andbook.Par.24487.File.dat/h1790-1-2008-1.pdf] Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). 2012. Approved Resource Management Plan Amendments/Record of Decision for Solar Energy Development in Six Southwestern States. Appendix A—Land Use Plan Amendments. October 2012. [http://blmsolar.anl.gov/documents/docs/peis/Solar_PEIS_ROD.pdf] California Energy Commission (CEC). 2017. Tracking Progress. Accessed at http://energy.ca.gov/renewables/tracking_progress/documents/renewable.pdf on April 24, 2018. California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). 2017. Renewables Portfolio Standard. Accessed at http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/renewables/ on April 24, 2018. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). 2012. U.S. Solar Resource Maps. [http://www.nrel.gov/gis/solar.html]. Riverside County. 2015a. County of Riverside General Plan, December 15, 2015. [http://planning.rctlma.org/ZoningInformation/GeneralPlan.aspx]. Accessed October 5, 2016. Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). 2018. Solar Market Insight Report 2017 Year in Review. [http://www.seia.org/research-resources/solar-market-insight-report-2017-year-review]. Accessed May 28, 2018. URS. 2015. Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Technical Study for the First Solar Desert Quartzite Solar Project.

Chapter 2 Avian Power Line Interaction Committee (APLIC). 2006. Suggested Practices for Avian Protection on Power Lines: The State of the Art in 2006. Edison Electric Institute, APLIC, and the California Energy Commission. Washington, D.C. and Sacramento, CA. Avian Power Line Interaction Committee (APLIC). 2012. Reducing Avian Collisions with Power Lines. [http://www.aplic.org/uploads/files/11218/Reducing_Avian_Collisions_2012watermarkLR.pdf]. Accessed February 9, 2016. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2007. Vegetation Treatments Using Herbicides Final EIS.

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Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2009. Approved Resource Management Plan Amendments/Record of Decision for Designation of Energy Corridors on Bureau of Land Management Administered Lands in the Western 11 States. January 2009. Desert Quartzite. 2015. Draft Decommissioning and Site Reclamation Plan. Sunpower. 2016. Sunpower T20 Tracker Fact Sheet. [https://us.sunpower.com/sites/sunpower/files/media-library/data-sheets/ds-sunpower-t20- tracker-datasheet.pdf]. Accessed November 23, 2016. URS. 2015. Assessment of NECO CMP Designated Open Routes within Project Boundary, Desert Quartzite Solar Project. Letter report dated October 30, 2015. URS. 2016a. Water Supply Assessment for the Desert Quartzite Solar Project. June 2016. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). 2016a. Volume to Waste Conversion Factors. [https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016- 04/documents/volume_to_weight_conversion_factors_memorandum_04192016_508fnl.pdf]. Accessed January 19, 2017. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). 2016b. Renewable Energy on Contaminated Lands in California. [http://www3.epa.gov/region9/climatechange/renewcontlands/index.htm]. Accessed February 9, 2016. Western EcoSystems Technology (WEST), Inc. 2018. Bird and Bat Conservation Strategy, Desert Quartzite Solar Energy Project, Riverside County, California. Prepared for Desert Quartzite, LLC. June 09.

Chapter 3.2 Air Resources Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2002. Proposed Northern and Eastern Colorado Desert Coordinated Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement: Chapter 3.1 Air Quality. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/news/pdfs/neco2002/Chapter3.pdf.] California Air Resources Board (CARB). 2011. Toxic Air Contaminant Identification List. Last updated: July 18, 2011. [http://www.arb.ca.gov/toxics/id/taclist.htm]. Accessed: September 29, 2015. CARB. 2015a. Ambient Air Quality Standards Table. [http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/aaqs/aaqs2.pdf]. Accessed March 23, 2016. CARB. 2015b. Area Designation Maps / State and National. [http://www.arb.ca.gov/desig/adm/adm.htm]. Accessed November 30, 2015. CARB. 2018. Top 4 Summary Pollutant data. [http://www.arb.ca.gov/adam/topfour/topfour1.php]. Accessed April 25, 2018. Iowa Environmental Mesonet. 2018. Wind Rose for Blythe Airport, 2008 to 2018. Accessed on February 23, 2018 at http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/sites/dyn_windrose.phtml?network=CA_ASOS&station=BLH. Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District (MDAQMD). 2015. Rule Book, Regulation IV. [http://www.mdaqmd.ca.gov/index.aspx?page=142]. Accessed November 30, 2015.

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Riverside County. 2014. Blythe Mesa Solar Project, Environmental Impact Report. June, 2014. Scientific Resources Associated (SRA). 2013. Air Quality and Global Climate Change Report for the Blythe Mesa Solar Project. Riverside County. 2015a. County of Riverside General Plan, December 15, 2015. [http://planning.rctlma.org/ZoningInformation/GeneralPlan.aspx]. Accessed October 5, 2016. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). 2015a. Current Nonattainment Counties for All Criteria Pollutants webpage. [http://www3.epa.gov/airquality/greenbk/ancl.html]. Accessed December 2, 2015. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). 2015b. Ground-level Ozone Regulatory Actions. [http://www3.epa.gov/airquality/ozonepollution/actions.html#current]. Accessed November 30, 2015. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). 2015c. Nitrogen Dioxide Designations, Regulatory Actions. [http://www3.epa.gov/no2designations/regs.html]. Accessed November 30, 2015. Western Regional Climate Center (WRCC). 2018a. Blythe CAA Airport, California Period of Record General Climate Summary. Accessed at http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi- bin/cliMAIN.pl?ca0927, April 25, 2018.

Chapter 3.3 Biological Resources - Vegetation Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2002. Proposed Northern and Eastern Colorado Desert Coordinated Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS.) July 2002. [www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/cdd/neco.html] Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2008. Manual 6840 – Special Status Species Management. December, 2008. [http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/wo/Information_Resources_Management/policy/b lm_manual.Par.43545.File.dat/6840.pdf] Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 2014. All BLM California Special Status Plants. May 28, 2015. Accessed at: https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/programs-natural-resources-native- plants-california-special-status-plants-detailed-list.pdf on April 25, 2018. California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), 2010. List of noxious weeds. [http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/ipc/weedinfo/winfo_pestrating_2010.pdf.] California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW). 2016. California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Natural Diversity Database. Special Vascular Plants, Bryophytes, and Lichens List. Quarterly publication. 73 pp. California Invasive Plant Council (Cal-IPC), 2006. California Invasive Plant Inventory. Cal IPC Publication 2006-02. Berkeley. [http://www.cal-ipc.org/ip/inventory/weedlist.php] Consortium of California Herbaria 2012 Consortium of California Herbaria. Jepson Herbarium, UC Berkeley. 10,000m radius search centered on Quartszite project site, queried 29 September 2012 and 2 October 2012. [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/consortium/]

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Evens, J.E., and S.L. Hartman. 2007. Vegetation Survey and Classification for the Northern & Eastern Colorado Desert Coordinated Management Plan (NECO). California Native Plant Society. Griffiths, P.G., Webb, R.H., Lancaster, N., Kaehler, C.A., and Lindstrom, S.C. 2002. Long- Term Sand Supply to Coachella Valley Fringe-toed Lizard Habitat in the Northern Coachella Valley, California. U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigation Report 02-4013. Holland, R.F. 1986. Preliminary Descriptions of the Terrestrial Natural Communities of California. The Resources Agency, Department of Fish and Wildlife, State of California. Huffman‐Broadway Group, Inc. 2015. Investigation of the Presence of Wetlands and Other Waters of the United States, Desert Quartzite Solar Farm Project, Riverside County, California. Prepared for First Solar, San Francisco, CA. May. 34 pages plus Appendices. Huffman-Broadway Group, Inc. 2017. Identification and Delineation of Areas Potentially Subject to Jurisdiction Under the California Department of Fish and Wildlife Lake and Streambed Alteration Agreement Program, Desert Quartzite Solar Farm Project, Blythe, Riverside County, California. Prepared for Desert Quartzite, LLC, San Francisco, CA. 15 pages plus Appendices A – E. March. Ironwood Consulting Inc. 2016. Biological Resources Technical Report, Desert Quartzite Solar Project. January, 2016. Karl, Alice. 2012. Personal communication by telephone, 13 October 2012. Kenney GeoScience. 2017. Geomorphic and Stratigraphic Evaluation of the Stable Early to Mid-Holocene Eolian (Wind-Blown) Dune Systems for Proposed Desert Quartzite Solar Project, Eastern Chuckwalla Valley and Palo Verde Mesa Area, Riverside, California. September 22, 2017. Lancaster, N., and Tchakerian, V.P. 2003. Late Quaternary Eolian Dynamics, Mojave Desert, California, in Enzel, Y., Wells, S.G., and Lancaster, N., eds., Paleoenvironments and paleohydrology of the Mojave and southern Great Basin Deserts: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 368. Muhs, D.R., Reynolds, R.L., Been, J., and Skipp, G. 2003. Eolian Sand Transport Pathways in the Southwestern United States: importance of the Colorado River and Local Sources. Quaternary International Vo. 104, Pgs. 3-18. Muhs, D.R., Lancaster, N., and Skipp, G.L.. 2017. A Complex Origin for the Kelso Dunes, Mojave National Preserve, California, USA: A Case Study Using a Simple Geochemical Method with Global Applications. Geomorphology, Vol. 276, Pg. 222-243. Potter, C. and Weigand, J. 2016. Analysis of Desert Sand Dune Migration Patterns from Landsat Image Time Series for the Southern California Desert. Journal of Remote Sensing and GIS. May 16, 2016. Sawyer, J.O., T. Keeler-Wolf, J.M. Evans. 2009. A Manual of California Vegetation, second edition. California Native Plant Society, Sacramento, California. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). 1983. 7.5 Minute Series Topographic Quadrangle Map, Roosevelt Mine Quadrangle, Scale 1:24,000. Western EcoSystems Technology (WEST). 2017. Memorandum on Eriastrum Harwoodii Survey Results, June 29, 2017..

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Zeiner, D. C., W. F. Laudenslayer, Jr., K. E. Mayer, and M. White, eds. 1990. California's Wildlife. Vol. I‐III. California Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento, California. California Wildlife Habitat Relationship System (CWHRS). [http://www.dfg.ca.gov/biogeodata/cwhr/cawildlife.aspx.] Zimbelman, J.R., Williams, S.H., Tchakerian, V.P., 1995. Sand transport paths in the Mojave Desert, southwestern United States. In: Tchakerian, V.P. (Ed.), Desert Aeolian Processes. Chapman and Hall, London, pp. 101–129

Chapter 3.4 Biological Resources - Wildlife Audubon. 2017a. Audubon Field Guide: Burrowing Owl. [http://ca.audubon.org/birds- 0/burrowing-owl] Audubon. 2017b. Audubon Field Guide: Golden Eagle. [http://www.audubon.org/field- guide/bird/golden-eagle] Bildstein, K.L, J.P. Smith and R. Yosef. 2007. Migration counts and monitoring. In D.M. Bird and K.L. Bildstein (eds.). Raptor research and management techniques. Hancock House Publ., Surry, BC. Bird, D.M., and K.L. Bildstein (eds.). 2007. (Book) Raptor research and management techniques. Hancock House Publishers, Surrey, British Columbia. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2002. Proposed Northern and Eastern Colorado Desert Coordinated Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS.) July 2002. [www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/cdd/neco.html] Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 2014. BLM Special Status Animal Species by Field Office. September 23, 2014. California Burrowing Owl Consortium. 1993. Burrowing Owl Survey Protocols and Mitigation Guidelines. Prepared for the California Department of Fish and Game. California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW). 2012. Staff Report on Burrowing Owl Mitigation. [https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=83843&inline=true]. California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW). 2013. California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Natural Diversity Database. April 2013.Special Vascular Plants, Bryophytes, and Lichens List. Quarterly publication. 73 pp. Coulombe, H.N. 1971. Behavior and Population Ecology of the Burrowing Owl, Spetotyto Cunicularia, in the Imperial Valley of California. University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Zoology. In Ecology of the Burrowing Owl. Egoscue, H.J. 1962. Ecology and Life History of the Kit Fox in Tooele County, Utah. Ecology, 43(3):481–497. Franks, B.R., H. W. Avery, and J. R. Spotila. 2011. Home range and movement of desert California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW). 2012. Staff Report on Burrowing Owl Mitigation. Department of Fish and Game. March 7, 2012. [http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/nongame/docs/ BUOWStaffReport.pdf2.]

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Gervais, J. A., D. K. Rosenberg, and L.A., Comrack. 2008. Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia). In. Shuford, W. D., and Gardali, T., eds. California Bird Species of Special Concern: A Ranked Assessment of Species, Subspecies, and Distinct Populations of Birds of Immediate Conservation Concern in California. Studies of Western Birds 1. Western Field Ornithologists, Camarillo, California, and California Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento. Ironwood Consulting Inc. 2016. Biological Resources Technical Report, Desert Quartzite Solar Project. January, 2016. Jennings, M. R., and M. P. Hayes. 1994. Amphibian and reptile species of special concern in California. California Department of Fish and Game. Rancho Cordova 255 p. Kochert, M.N., and K. Steenhof. 2002. Golden Eagles in the U.S. and Canada: Status, Trends, and Conservation Challenges. In J. Raptor Res. 36 (1 Supplement):32-40. Kochert, M.N., K. Steenhof, C.L. Mcintyre, and E.H. Craig. 2002. Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America. [http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/684]. McGrew, J.C. 1979. Vulpes macrotis. Mammalian Species 123:1–6. Murphy, R. W., T. L. Trepanier, and D. J. Morafka. 2006. Conservation genetics, evolution and distinct population segments of the Mojave fringe-toed lizard, Uma scoparia. Journal of Arid Environments 67 (Supplement S), pp. 226-247. Muth, A. and Fisher, M. 1991. Population biology of the Coachella Valley fringe-toed lizard. Final Report, Contract 86/87 C2056 and 87/88 C2056, Am.1. California Department of Fish and Game, Inland Fisheries Division, Sacramento, California. Norris, K. S., 1958. The evolution and systematics of the iguanid genus Uma and its relation to the evolution of other North American desert reptiles. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 114, pp. 247- 328. Pagel, J.E., D.M. Whittington, and G.T. Allen. 2010. Interim Golden Eagle technical guidance: inventory and monitoring protocols; and other recommendations in support of eagle management and permit issuance. Division of Migratory Bird Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Stebbins, Robert C. 1944. Some aspects of the ecology of the iguanid genus, Uma. Ecological Monographs, vol. 14, no 3, pp. 311-332. Stebbins, R.C. and S.M. McGinnis. 2012. Amphibians and Reptiles of California. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. 538 pp. Thomas, L., S.T. Buckland, E.A. Rexstad, J. L. Laake, S. Strindberg, S. L. Hedley, J. R.B. Bishop, T. A. Marques, and K. P. Burnham. 2010. Distance software: design and analysis of distance sampling surveys for estimating population size. Journal of Applied Ecology 47: 5‐14. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365‐2664.2009.01737.x Turner, F.B., Weaver, D.C., and Rorabaugh, J.C..1984. Effects of reduction in windblown sand on the abundance of the fringe-toed lizard (Uma inornata) in the Coachella Valley, California. Copeia 1984, pp. 370-378.

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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service (USFS). 2008. Species Accounts: Animals, Golden Eagle. [http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/scfpr/projects/lmp/docs/species-animals.pdf]. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). 2009. Final Environmental Assessment Proposal to Permit Take Provided Under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Plan Act, Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington D.C., (April, 2009). U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). 2010. Revised pre-project survey protocols for the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii). U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). 2011a. Revised recovery plan for the Mojave population of the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii). U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Pacific Southwest Region, Sacramento, California. 222 pp. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). 2011b. Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 12-Month Finding on a Petition to List the Amargosa River Population of the Mojave Fringe-Toed Lizard as an Endangered or Threatened Distinct Population Segment. Fed. Reg Vol. 76, No. 192, (October 4, 2011). Wildlife Research Institute, Inc. (WRI). 2010. Golden eagle surveys surrounding First Solar Stateline project area in San Bernardino County, California and Clark County, Nevada. Zeiner, D. C., W. F.Laudenslayer, Jr., K. E. Mayer, and M. White, eds. 1990. California's Wildlife. Vol. I‐III. California Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento, California. California Wildlife Habitat Relation‐ship System (CWHRS). [http://www.dfg.ca.gov/biogeodata/cwhr/cawildlife.aspx.]

Chapter 3.5 Cultural Resources American Indian Transportation Committee (AITC). 1999. American Indian Transportation Committee Field Assessment of Cultural Sites Regarding the U.S. Department of Energy Preapproval Draft Environmental Assessment of Intermodal Transportation of Low-level Radioactive Waste to the Nevada Test Site Environmental Impact Statement, Appendix E. pp. E- 1-E-90. Department of Energy, Nevada Operations, Las Vegas, NV. Altschul, Jeffrey H., and Joseph A. Ezzo (editors). 1994. The Expression of Ceremonial Space along the Lower Colorado River. In Recent Research along the Lower Colorado River, edited by Joseph A. Ezzo, pp. 51–68. Statistical Research Technical Series No. 51, Tucson, Arizona. Antevs, Ernst. 1948. Climatic Changes and Pre-White Man. University of Utah Bulletin 38(20):167–191. Antevs, Ernst. 1955 Geologic-Climatic Dating in the West. American Antiquity 20(4):317–335. Apple, Rebecca McCorkle, Andrew York, Andrew Pigniolo, James H. Cleland, Stephen Van Wormer. 1997. Archaeological Survey and Evaluation Program for the Salton Sea Test Base Imperial County, California, prepared by KEA Environmental, Inc. Barrows, David Prescott. 1900. Ethnobotany of the Cahuilla Indians. University of Chicago Press. Basgall, Mark E., and Matthew C. Hall. 2000. Morphological and Temporal Variation in Bifurcate-Stemmed Dart Points of the Western Great Basin. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 22(2):237-276.

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Baty, Roger M., and Eddie L. Maddox, Jr. 2004. Where Heroes Trained: 736th Medium Tank Battalion (Special) from its Formation through Secret Battle Training in the Desert Training Center and California-Arizona Maneuver Area, February 1943–April 1944. Fenestra Books, Tucson, Arizona. Bean, Lowell, J. 1972. Mukat’s People: The Cahuilla Indians of Southern California. University of California Press, Berkeley. Bean, Lowell J., and William M. Mason. 1962. The Romero Expeditions 1823–1826. Palm Springs Desert Museum. Library of Congress Catalogue Number 63-14763, United States of America. Bean, Lowell J., and James Toenjes. 2010. Native American Ethnographic Resources Report for the Proposed Blythe, Palen and Genesis Solar Power Projects, Riverside California. Draft. Prepared for ESA. September. Bean, Lowell J., and Sylvia Brakke Vane. 1978. Persistence and Power: A Study of Native American Peoples in the Sonoran Desert and Devers-Palo Verde High Voltage Transmission Line. Report submitted to Southern California Edison Company. Cultural Systems Research, Inc., Menlo Park. Bee, Robert L. 1963. Changes in Yuma Social Organization. Ethnology 2(2):207–227. Bee, Robert L. 1967. Sociocultural Change and Persistence in the Yuma Indian Reservation Community. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas, Lawrence. Bee, Robert L. 1970. “Self-Help” at Fort Yuma: A Critique. Human Organization 29(3):155– 161. Bee, Robert L. 1981. Crosscurrents Along the Colorado: The Impact of Government Policy on the Quechan Indians. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. Bee, Robert L. 1982. The Quechan. In The APS/SDG&E Interconnection Project, Miguel to the Colorado River and Miguel to Mission Tap: Identification and Evaluation of Native American Cultural Resources, edited by Clyde Woods, pp. 34–55. Document on file with San Diego Gas & Electric Company. Bee, Robert L. 1983. The Quechan. In Southwest, edited by Alfonso Ortiz, pp. 86–98. Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 10, William C. Sturtevant, general editor. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Bischoff, Matt C. 2000. The Desert Training Center/California–Arizona Maneuver Area, 1942– 1944 Historical and Archaeological Contexts. Statistical Research Technical Series No. 75 Tucson, Arizona. [this is now two volumes, one for California and one for Arizona, dated 2009] Bolton, Herbert Eugene. 1916. Spanish Exploration in the Southwest, 1543–1709. Scribner's, New York. Bolton, Herbert Eugene. 1930. Anza’s California Expeditions Volume V, Correspondence. University of California Press, Berkeley. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2004. Identifying and Evaluating Cultural Resources, revised Section 8110 of the BLM Manual, supersedes previous Sections 8110 and 8111. [http://www.blm.gov].

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Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2012b. McCoy Solar Energy Project, Proposed Plan Amendment and Final Environmental Impact Statement. Byrne, R., C. Busby, and R.F. Heizer. 1979. The Altithermal Revisited: Pollen Evidence for Leonard Rockshelter. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 1(2):280–294. Butler, Gail A. 1998. Rockhounding in California. Falcon, Helena, Montana. Cachora, Lorey. 1994. The Spirit Life of Yuman-Speaking Peoples: Lower Colorado River Between Arizona and California. In Recent Research Along the Lower Colorado River, edited by Joseph A. Ezzo, pp. 13–14. Statistical Research Technical Series No. 51, Tucson, Arizona. Campbell, 1935 Southwest Museum Papers #9. Castetter, Edward F., and Willis H. Bell. 1951. Yuman Indian Agriculture: Primitive Subsistence on the Lower Colorado and Gila Rivers. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. Colton, Harold S. 1945. The Patayan Problem in the Colorado River Valley. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 1: 114-121. Coues, Elliot. 1900. On the Trail of a Spanish Pioneer, The Diary and Itinerary of Francisco Garcés (Missionary Priest) In His Travels Through Sonora, Arizona and California, 1775–1776. Francis P. Harper, New York. Crabtree, Robert H. 1980. Archaeology. In A Cultural Resources Overview of the Colorado Desert Planning Units, pp. 25-54. Report prepared for the U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management by the Institute for American Research. Crabtree, Robert H. 1981. Archaeology. In A Cultural Resources Overview of the Colorado Desert Planning Units, pp. 25–54. U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management. Devereux, G. 1937a. Mohave Soul Concepts. American Anthropologist 39(3):417–422. Devereux, G. 1937b. Institutionalized Homosexuality of the Mohave Indians. Human Biology 9(4):498–527. Devereux, G. 1941. Mohave Beliefs Concerning Twins. American Anthropologist 43(4):573– 592. Devereux, G. 1942. Primitive Psychiatry. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 11:522–542. Devereux, G. 1948. Mohave Pregnancy. Acta Americana 6(1-2):89–116. Devereux, G. 1950. Education and Discipline in Mohave Society. Primitive Man 23(4):85–102. Devereux, G. 1951. Mohave Chieftainship in Action: A Narrative of the First Contacts of the Mohave Indians with the United States. Plateau 23(3):33–43. Devereux, G. 1956. Mohave Dreams of Omen and Power. Tomorrow 4(3):17–24. Devereux, G. 1957. Dream Learning and Individual Ritual Differences in Mohave Shamanism. American Anthropologist 59(6):1036–1045. Devereux, G. 1961. Mohave Ethnopsychiatry and Suicide: The Psychiatric Knowledge and the Psychic Disturbances of an Indian Tribe. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 175. Washington, D.C.

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Hart, E.W. and W.A. Bryant. 2007. Special Publication 42: Fault-Rupture Hazard Zones in California: Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act with Index to Earthquake Fault Zone Maps, Interim Revision. Huffman‐Broadway Group, Inc. 2015. Investigation of the Presence of Wetlands and Other Waters of the United States, Desert Quartzite Solar Farm Project, Riverside County, California. Prepared for First Solar, San Francisco, CA. May. 34 pages plus Appendices. International Code Council (ICC). 2018. [https://codes.iccsafe.org/public/document/IBC2018]. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS). 1969. Soil Survey of Palo Verde Area, California. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). 2002. Detection and Measurement of Land Subsidence Using Global Positioning and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar, Coachella Valley, California, Report 02-4239, 2002. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). 2006. Geologic Map of the West Half of the Blythe 30’ by 60’ Quadrangle, Riverside County, California, and Las Paz County, Arizona, USGS Scientific Investigation Map 2922. URS Corporation (URS). 2011. Preliminary Geotechnical Investigation Report for the First Solar Development, Inc., Desert Quartzite Solar Project.

Chapter 3.8 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Association of Environmental Professionals (AEP). 2007. Recommendations by the Association of Environmental Professionals (AEP) on How to Analyze Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Global Climate Change in CEQA Documents. June. California Air Resources Board (CARB). 2009. Climate Change Scoping Plan: A Framework for Change. [http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/scopingplan/document/adopted_scoping_plan.pdf] (December 2008, amended version included errata and Board requested modifications posted May 11, 2009). California Air Resources Board (CARB). 2013. Clean Car Standards. [http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/ccms/ccms.htm]. Accessed March 1, 2016. California Air Resources Board (CARB). 2015. California Greenhouse Gas Inventory for 2000- 2013, by Sector and Activity. [http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/inventory/data/tables/ghg_inventory_sector_sum_2000- 13_20150831.pdf]. Accessed March 1, 2016. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2007. Climate Change 2007: Working Group II: The Scientific Basis. Riverside County. 2015. Climate Action Plan. December, 2015. [http://planning.rctlma.org/Portals/0/genplan/general_plan_2016/climate_action_plan/CAP_1208 15.pdf?ver=2016-04-01-101221-240]. Accessed January 17, 2017. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 2016a. Understanding Global Warming Potentials. [http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gwps.html]. Accessed March 1, 2016.

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 2016b. Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions. [http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/sources.html]. Accessed March 1, 2016. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 2018. Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2016. [https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2018- 01/documents/2018_complete_report.pdf]. Accessed April 26, 2018. Wohlfahrt, Georg, Lynn F. Fenstermaker, and John A. Arnone III, 2008. Large annual net ecosystem CO2 uptake of a Mojave Desert ecosystem. Global Change Biology (2008) 14, 1475– 1487.

Chapter 3.9 Hazards and Hazardous Materials AirNav. 2016. Blythe Airport. [http://www.airnav.com/airport/BLH]. Accessed February 9 2016. California Department of Public Health (CDPH). 2016. Epidemiologic Summary of Coccidioidomycosis in California, 2009-2012. [http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/sss/Documents/CocciEpiSummary09-12.pdf]. Accessed February 9, 2016. MacLean, Michael L. 2014. The epidemiology of coccidiodomycosis – 15 California counties, 2007-2011. Produced for the California Coccidiodomycosis Collaborative. Page 8. [http://vfce.arizona.edu/sites/vfce/files/the_epidemiology_of_coccidioidomycosis_collaborative_ county_report.pdf]. Accessed November 21, 2016.North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). 2014. Critical Infrastructure Protection Program – Physical Security. [http://www.nerc.com/_layouts/PrintStandard.aspx?standardnumber=CIP-014-2&title=Physical Security&jurisdiction=United States]. Accessed February 29, 2016. Riverside County Airport Land Use Commission (ALUC). 2004. Riverside County Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan (RCALUCP), Volume 1, Policy Document. [http://www.rcaluc.org/Portals/0/PDFGeneral/plan/newplan/04- %20Vol.%201%20County%20wide%20Policies.pdf]. Accessed on February 24, 2016. Riverside County Fire Department (RCFD), 2006. Riverside County Operational Area Emergency Operations Plan [http://www.rvcfire.org/opencms/functions/oes/EmergencyManagement/PlansandPublications/Fi nal_EOP_Part_1_Feb_2006.pdf]. Accessed on February 19, 2016. URS. 2015. Phase I Environmental Site Assessment for the First Solar Desert Quartzite Solar Project. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), 2002. Draft Vulnerability Assessment Methodology, Electric Power Infrastructure. [http://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=439919]. Accessed February 9, 2016. U. S. Geological Survey (USGS). 2015. Disease Maps 2015. [http://diseasemaps.usgs.gov/index.html]. Accessed on February 9, 2016.

Chapter 3.10 Lands, Realty, and Agricultural and Forestry Resources AirNav.com. 2015. Blythe Airport webpage. [http://www.airnav.com/airport/KBLH]. Accessed September 25, 2015.

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Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 1980. The California Desert Conservation Area Plan, as amended. [http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib//blm/ca/pdf/pdfs/cdd_pdfs.Par.aa6ec747.File.pdf/CA_Desert _.pdf]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2002. Proposed Northern and Eastern Colorado Desert Coordinated Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/news/pdfs/neco2002/]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2009. Approved Resource Management Plan/Record of Decision for Designation of Energy Corridors on Bureau of Land Management Administered Lands in the 11 Western States, January 14, 2009. [http://www.corridoreis.anl.gov/documents/docs/Energy_Corridors_final_signed_ROD_1_14_20 09.pdf]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2012c. Approved Resource Management Plan Amendments/Record of Decision (ROD) for Solar Energy Development in Six Southwestern States. October 2012. [http://solareis.anl.gov/documents/docs/Solar_PEIS_ROD.pdf]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2015. Solar Energy Development Programmatic EIS: Solar Energy Zones webpage. [http://solareis.anl.gov/sez/index.cfm]. Accessed September 25, 2015. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2016. Land and Mineral Legacy Rehost 2000 System (LR2000). [http://www.blm.gov/lr2000/]. Accessed March 2, 2016. California Department of Conservation, Division of Land Resource Protection, Conservation Program Support. 2012. Map of Williamson Act lands in western Riverside County. [ftp://ftp.consrv.ca.gov/pub/dlrp/wa/riverside_e_08_09_WA.pdf]. California Department of Conservation. 2014. California Important Farmland Finder. [http://maps.conservation.ca.gov/ciff/]. Accessed January 13, 2016. Riverside County Airport Land Use Commission. 2004. Riverside County Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan: Volume 3 Blythe Municipal. October 14, 2004. [http://www.rcaluc.org/filemanager/plan/new//45-%20Vol.%203%20Blythe%20Municipal.pdf]. Riverside County. 2015a. County of Riverside General Plan, December 15, 2015. [http://planning.rctlma.org/ZoningInformation/GeneralPlan.aspx]. Accessed October 5, 2016. Riverside County. 2015b. Palo Verde Valley Area Plan. December 8, 2015. [http://planning.rctlma.org/Portals/0/genplan/general_plan_2016/area_plans/PVVAP_120815m.p df?ver=2016-04-01-101011-927]. Accessed October 5, 2016. Riverside County. 2015c. Riverside County TLMA GIS map of the Project area. Created September 22, 2015. Riverside County Redevelopment Agency. 1988. Redevelopment Plan for Redevelopment Project Airports. October 1988. [http://www.rivcoeda.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=YdhK0ZcwV2s%3d&tabid=1466]. Accessed February 29, 2016.

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Chapter 3.11 Mineral Resources Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2010. Solid Mineral Programs on the Nation’s Federal Land. [http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/more/non- energy_minerals/solid_minerals_brochure.html]. Accessed February 9, 2016. California Department of Conservation, Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR). 2016. Online Mapping Tool. [http://www.conservation.ca.gov/dog/Pages/WellFinder.aspx]. Accessed February 9, 2016. Riverside County. 2015a. County of Riverside General Plan, December 15, 2015. [http://planning.rctlma.org/ZoningInformation/GeneralPlan.aspx]. Accessed October 5, 2016. Riverside County. 2015b. Palo Verde Valley Area Plan. December 8, 2015. [http://planning.rctlma.org/Portals/0/genplan/general_plan_2016/area_plans/PVVAP_120815m.p df?ver=2016-04-01-101011-927]. Accessed October 5, 2016. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). 2016. Mineral Resources, Mineral Resources Data System: [http://mrdata.usgs.gov/mineral-resources/mrds-us.html]. Accessed February 9, 2016.

Chapter 3.12 Noise Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 1980. The California Desert Conservation Area Plan, as amended. [http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib//blm/ca/pdf/pdfs/cdd_pdfs.Par.aa6ec747.File.pdf/CA_Desert _.pdf]. California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). 1998. Traffic Noise Analysis Protocol for New Highway Construction and Reconstruction Projects. October 1998. [http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/env/noise/pub/protocol.pdf]. California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). 2009. Technical Noise Supplement. Prepared by ICF Jones & Stokes. Sacramento, CA. November 2009. [http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/env/noise/pub/tens_complete.pdf]. National Park Service (NPS). 2009. Effects of Noise. [http://www.nature.nps.gov/sound/effects.cfm]. Accessed March 21, 2016. Riverside County. 2007. Ordinance 847. Amended June 19, 2007. [http://www.rivcocob.org/ords/800/847.pdf]. Riverside County. 2015a. County of Riverside General Plan, December 15, 2015. [http://planning.rctlma.org/ZoningInformation/GeneralPlan.aspx]. Accessed October 5, 2016. Riverside County Airport Land Use Commission (ALUC). 2004. Riverside County Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan (RCALUCP): Volume 1 Countywide Policies. [http://www.rcaluc.org/Portals/0/PDFGeneral/plan/newplan/04- %20Vol.%201%20County%20wide%20Policies.pdf]. Accessed February 19, 2016 URS. 2015. Noise Technical Report for the Desert Quartzite Solar Project. December, 2015. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 1974. Information on Levels of Environmental Noise Requisite to Protect Public Health and Welfare with an Adequate Margin of Safety. March 1974. [http://www.rosemonteis.us/files/references/usepa-1974.pdf]. Accessed February 19, 2016

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Chapter 3.13 Paleontological Resources Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2007. Potential Fossil Yield Classification (PFYC) System for Paleontological Resources on Public Lands, BLM Instruction Memorandum No. 2008­009. [http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/info/regulations/Instruction_Memos_and_Bulletins/national_instr uction/20080/im_2008-009.html]. Accessed April 4, 2016. Hayhurst, C.A., and T.L. Bedrossian. (compilers). 2010. West half of Blythe 30' by 60' Quadrangle. Plate 4. In T.L. Bedrossian, P. Roffers, and C.A. Hayhurst (compilers). Geologic compilation of Quaternary surficial deposits in southern California. California Geological Survey Special Report 217. Accessed on March 17, 2018, at: http://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/fwgp/Documents/plate4_blythe.pdf Reynolds, R.E. 2004. A latest Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) fossil assemblage from the Silver Lake Climbing Dune site, northeastern Mojave Desert, California. Pages 33–38. In R.E. Reynolds (editor). Breaking Up: The 2004 Desert Symposium field trip, with Abstracts from the 2004 Desert Symposium. California State University Desert Studies Consortium and LSA Associates, Inc. Reynolds, R.E., G.T. Jefferson, and D.K. Lynch. 2008. Trough to trough: The 2008 Desert Symposium field trip. Pages 5–25. In R.E. Reynolds (editor). Trough to trough: The Colorado River and the Salton Sea. Proceedings of the 2008 Desert Symposium. California State University Desert Studies Consortium and LSA Associates, Inc. Reynolds, R. E., and E. B. Lander. 2016. Preliminary Paleontological Resources Assessment Technical Report, prepared in support of Desert Quartzite Solar Project. Prepared by Paleo Environmental Associates, Altadena, California, for Statistical Research, Redlands, California, and Desert Quartzite, LLC, San Francisco. March, 2016. Riverside County. 2015a. County of Riverside General Plan, December 15, 2015. [http://planning.rctlma.org/ZoningInformation/GeneralPlan.aspx]. Accessed October 5, 2016. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP). 2010. Impact Mitigation Guidelines Revision Committee Standard procedures for assessment and mitigation of adverse impacts to paleontological resources. [http://vertpaleo.org/Membership/Member- Ethics/SVP_Impact_Mitigation_Guidelines.aspx]. Accessed April 4, 2016. Stewart, J.D. 2012. Draft paleontological resources delineation work plan. URS, Project No. 27652105.00505. Prepared for Rio Mesa Solar I, LLC, and Rio Mesa Solar II, LLC. Stewart, J.D., M. Williams, M. Hakel, and S. Musick. 2012. Was it washed in? New evidence for the genesis of Pleistocene fossil vertebrate remains in the Mojave Desert of southern California. Pages 140–143. In R.E. Reynolds (editor). Searching for the Pliocene: Southern Exposures. The 2012 Desert Research Symposium. California State University Desert Studies Center. Stone, P. 2006. Geologic Map of the West Half of the Blythe 30’ by 60’ Quadrangle, Riverside County, California, and Las Paz County, Arizona, USGS Scientific Investigation Map 2922. United States Department of the Interior (DOI). 2000. Assessment of Fossil Management on Federal and Indian Land. [http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/wo/Planning_and_Renewable_Resources/coop_agencie s/paleontology_library/paleon_legis.Par.15714.File.dat/fossil.pdf. Accessed April 4, 2016.

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URS Corporation (URS). 2011. Preliminary Geotechnical Investigation Report for the First Solar Development, Inc., Desert Quartzite Solar Project.

Chapter 3.14 Recreation and Public Access Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 1980. The California Desert Conservation Area Plan, as amended. [http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib//blm/ca/pdf/pdfs/cdd_pdfs.Par.aa6ec747.File.pdf/CA_Desert _.pdf]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 1995. Principles for Wilderness Management in The California Desert. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/pa/wilderness/wilderness_pdfs/wa/PrinciplesforWildern.pdf]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2002. Proposed Northern and Eastern Colorado Desert Coordinated Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/news/pdfs/neco2002/]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2010. Bradshaw Trail map. Prepared September 1, 2010. [http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/ca/pdf/palmsprings/general_- _pssc.Par.93897.File.dat/BradshawAccessRouteMap.pdf]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2011. Email communication with Greg Hill, Acting CDD Wilderness/NLCS Coordinator, Palm Springs-South Coast Field Office (December 6, 2011), as cited in BLM 2012b, McCoy Solar Energy Project Environmental Impact Statement. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2012d. Manual 6340 Management of Designated Wilderness Areas (Public). [http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/wo/Information_Resources_Management/policy/blm_m anual.Par.22269.File.dat/6340.pdf]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2012e. Bradshaw Trail webpage. Last updated December 17, 2012. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/palmsprings/bradshaw.html]. Accessed August 20, 2015. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2014a. Big Maria Mountains Wilderness webpage. Last updated October 8, 2014. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/palmsprings/wilderness/big_maria_mountains.html]. Accessed August 20, 2015. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2014b. Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness webpage. Last updated October 8, 2014. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/palmsprings/wilderness/chuckwalla_mountains.html]. Accessed August 20, 2015. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2014c. Little Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness webpage. Last updated October 8, 2014. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/palmsprings/wilderness/little_chuckwalla_mountains.html]. Accessed August 20, 2015.

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Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2014d. Palen McCoy Wilderness webpage. Last updated October 7, 2014. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/palmsprings/wilderness/palen-mccoy.html]. Accessed August 20, 2015. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2014e. Palo Verde Mountains Wilderness webpage. Last updated October 5, 2014. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/elcentro/recreation/ecwilderness/palo_verde_mountains.html]. Accessed August 20, 2015. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2014f. Rice Valley Wilderness webpage. Last updated October 7, 2014. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/palmsprings/wilderness/rice_valley.html]. Accessed August 20, 2015. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2014g. Trigo Mountain Wilderness webpage. Last updated October 24, 2014. [http://www.blm.gov/az/st/en/prog/blm_special_areas/wildareas/trigo.html]. Accessed January 4, 2016. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2015a. Long Term Visitor Areas webpage. Last updated January 12, 2015. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/elcentro/recreation/ltvas.html]. Accessed August 20, 2015. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2015b. Bureau of Land Management – Long Term Visitor Areas – Supplemental Rules. [http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/ca/pdf/elcentro.Par.98134.File.dat/LTVA_Supp_Rules. pdf]. Accessed August 20, 2015. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2015c. Coon Hollow Camp Site webpage. Last updated December 15, 2015. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/palmsprings/recreation/Mule_Mountain_Coon_Hollow.html]. Accessed March 3, 2016. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2015d. Wiley’s Well Camp Site webpage. Last updated December 15, 2015. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/palmsprings/recreation/Mule_Mountains_Wileys_Well_Camp_ Site.html]. Accessed March 3, 2016. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2016. Visits and Visitor Days by RMA, BLM Recreation Management Information System. Desert USA.com. 2015. Desert and River Regional Parks, Riverside, CA webpage. [http://www.desertusa.com/carrp/rrp.html]. Accessed August 20, 2015. Imperial County. 2016. Imperial County Planning and Development Services County Parks webpage. [http://www.icpds.com/?pid=1058]. Accessed January 6, 2016. Riverside County. 2010. Palo Verde Valley Area Plan Trails and Bikeway Map revisions. January 13, 2010. [http://www.rivcoparks.org/wp- content/custom_images/trails/PaloVerdeValley_Trails.pdf]. Accessed August 20, 2015. Riverside County. 2015a. County of Riverside General Plan, December 15, 2015. [http://planning.rctlma.org/ZoningInformation/GeneralPlan.aspx]. Accessed October 5, 2016.

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Riverside County. 2015b. Palo Verde Valley Area Plan. December 8, 2015. [http://planning.rctlma.org/Portals/0/genplan/general_plan_2016/area_plans/PVVAP_120815m.p df?ver=2016-04-01-101011-927]. Accessed October 5, 2016. Riverside County. 2015c. Riverside County TLMA GIS map of the project area. Created September 22, 2015. Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District. 2015a. Mayflower Park webpage. [http://www.rivcoparks.org/parks/mayflower/mayflower-park-home/]. Accessed August 20, 2015. Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District. 2015b. McIntyre webpage. [http://www.rivcoparks.org/parks/concession-sites/mcintyre/]. Accessed August 20, 2015. See California.com. 2015. Blythe, CA Parks and Recreation webpage. [http://www.seecalifornia.com/parks/blythe-parks.html]. Accessed August 20, 2015. URS. 2015. Desert Quartzite Solar Project Assessment of NECO CMP Designated Open Routes (Unpaved) Within Project Boundary. Letter Report to Roy Skinner, First Solar, October 30, 2015. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). 2014. Cibola National Wildlife Refuge: Visitor Activities webpage. Last updated: February 26, 2014. [http://www.fws.gov/refuge/Cibola/visit/visitor_activities.html]. Accessed August 20, 2015.

Chapter 3.15 Social and Economic Setting Arizona Department of Administration (ADOA). 2015. 2012-2020 Industry Employment Projections. [https://laborstats.az.gov/sites/default/files/documents/files/ifor-04-2012to2022- report.pdf]. Accessed February 17 2016. Arizona Department of Administration (ADOA). 2016a. Population Estimates. [https://population.az.gov/population-estimates]. Accessed November 15, 2016. Arizona Department of Administration (ADOA). 2016b. Population Projections. [https://population.az.gov/population-projections]. Accessed November 15, 2016. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2007. Long Term Visitor Areas – Supplemental Rules. [http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/ca/pdf/elcentro.Par.98134.File.dat/LTVA_Supp_R ules.pdf]. Accessed February 17, 2016. California Department of Finance (Cal DOF). 2016a. Population Estimates. [http://www.dof.ca.gov/Forecasting/Demographics/Estimates/E-1/]. Accessed November 15, 2016. California Department of Finance (Cal DOF). 2016a. Population Projections. [http://www.dof.ca.gov/Forecasting/Demographics/Projections/]. Accessed November 15, 2016. Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). 1982. Socioeconomic Impacts of Power Plants. (February, 1982). Genesis Solar, LLC, 2009. Application for Certification for the Genesis Solar Energy Project, Section 5.8 Socioeconomic.

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[http://www.energy.ca.gov/sitingcases/genesis_solar/documents/applicant/afc/volume_1/5.8%20 Socioeconomics/5.8_Socioeconomics.pdf]. Quartzsite Business Chamber of Commerce. 2016. Town information. [http://qzchamber.com/town.html]. Accessed February 17 2016. Riverside County. 2015d. Fiscal year 2014/2015 Adopted Budget. [http://countyofriverside.us/Portals/0/Government/Budget%20Information/2014- 2015%20Adopted%20Budget/FY15AdoptedBudgetWeb.pdf]. Accessed February 17, 2016. U.S. Federal Reserve. 2015. Economic Projections of Federal Reserve Board members and Federal Reserve Bank Presidents, September 2015. [http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/fomcprojtabl20150917.pdf]. Accessed February 17, 2016.

Chapter 3.16 Special Designations Anderson, Brandon. 2015. Personal communication with Anne Ferguson, AECOM. Phone call discussing Bradshaw Trail uses. December 2, 2015. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 1980. The California Desert Conservation Area Plan, as amended. [http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib//blm/ca/pdf/pdfs/cdd_pdfs.Par.aa6ec747.File.pdf/CA_Desert _.pdf]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 1993. Handbook 8357-1 Byways. December 17, 1993. [http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/wo/Information_Resources_Management/policy/blm_h andbook.Par.52520.File.dat/h8357-1.pdf]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2002a. Proposed Northern and Eastern Colorado Desert Coordinated Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/news/pdfs/neco2002/]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2002b. Record of Decision for Approved Northern and Eastern Colorado Desert Coordinated Management Plan: An Amendment to the California Desert Conservation Plan 1980. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/news/pdfs/neco2002/neco_rod_final.pdf]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2005. Land Use Planning Handbook H-1601. [http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/ak/aktest/planning/planning_general.Par.65225.File.dat/ blm_lup_handbook.pdf]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2009. Instruction Memorandum 2009-215, Planning for Special Designations within the National System of Public Lands. Issued September 21, 2009. [http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/info/regulations/Instruction_Memos_and_Bulletins/national_instr uction/2009/IM_2009-215.html]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2010a. Bradshaw Trail map. Prepared September 1, 2010. [http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/ca/pdf/palmsprings/general_- _pssc.Par.93897.File.dat/BradshawAccessRouteMap.pdf]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2010b. Yuma Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan – Appendix D Areas of Critical Environmental Concern

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Evaluation Reports. January 2010. [http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/az/pdfs/nepa/library/resource_management/yuma_rod.P ar.18198.File.dat/ROD-ARMPcomplete.pdf]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2011. Instruction Memorandum 2011-154, Requirement to Conduct and Maintain Inventory Information for Wilderness Characteristics and to Consider Lands with Wilderness Characteristics in Land Use Plans. July 25, 2011. [http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/info/regulations/Instruction_Memos_and_Bulletins/national_instr uction/2011/IM_2011-154.html]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2012d. Manual 6340 Management of Designated Wilderness Areas (Public). [http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/wo/Information_Resources_Management/policy/blm_m anual.Par.22269.File.dat/6340.pdf]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2012e. Bradshaw Trail webpage. Last updated December 17, 2012. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/palmsprings/bradshaw.html]. Accessed August 20, 2015. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2014a. Palen McCoy Wilderness webpage. Last updated October 7, 2014. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/palmsprings/wilderness/palen-mccoy.html]. Accessed August 20, 2015. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2014b. Big Maria Mountains Wilderness webpage. Last updated October 8, 2014. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/palmsprings/wilderness/big_maria_mountains.html. Accessed August 20, 2015]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2014c. Rice Valley Wilderness webpage. Last updated October 7, 2014. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/palmsprings/wilderness/rice_valley.html]. Accessed August 20, 2015. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2014d. Little Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness webpage. Last updated October 8, 2014. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/palmsprings/wilderness/little_chuckwalla_mountains.html]. Accessed August 20, 2015. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2014e. Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness webpage. Last updated October 8, 2014. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/palmsprings/wilderness/chuckwalla_mountains.html. Accessed August 20, 2015]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2014f. Palo Verde Mountains Wilderness webpage. Last updated October 5, 2014. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/elcentro/recreation/ecwilderness/palo_verde_mountains.html]. Accessed August 20, 2015. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2014g. Trigo Mountain Wilderness webpage. Last updated October 24, 2014. [http://www.blm.gov/az/st/en/prog/blm_special_areas/wildareas/trigo.html]. Accessed January 4, 2016.

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Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2015. Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976: How the Stage was Set for BLM’s “Organic Act.” [http://www.blm.gov/flpma/organic.htm]. Accessed September 23, 2015. Govtrack.us. 2015. Text of the California Desert Protection Act. [https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/103/s21/text]. Accessed September 23, 2015.

Chapter 3.17 Transportation and Traffic AirNav.com. 2015. Blythe Airport webpage. [http://www.airnav.com/airport/KBLH.]. Accessed on September 25, 2015. California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). 2002. Caltrans Guide for the Preparation of Traffic Impact Studies. [http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/tpp/offices/ocp/igr_ceqa_files/tisguide.pdf]. Accessed on March 7, 2016. California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). 2014. California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices 2014 Edition. [http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/traffops/engineering/mutcd/pdf/camutcd2014/CAMUTCD2014_rev1. pdf]. Accessed on February 22, 2016. Palo Verde Valley Transit Agency. 2016. Green Route 4 webpage. [https://sites.google.com/site/pvvtablythe/home/fixed-routes/green-route-4]. Accessed on February 22, 2016. Riverside County. 2010. Palo Verde Valley Area Plan Trails and Bikeway Map. January 13, 2010. [http://www.rivcoparks.org/wp- content/custom_images/trails/PaloVerdeValley_Trails.pdf]. Accessed on February 22, 2016. Riverside County. 2015a. County of Riverside General Plan, December 15, 2015. [http://planning.rctlma.org/ZoningInformation/GeneralPlan.aspx]. Accessed October 5, 2016. Riverside County. 2015b. Palo Verde Valley Area Plan. December 8, 2015. [http://planning.rctlma.org/Portals/0/genplan/general_plan_2016/area_plans/PVVAP_120815m.p df?ver=2016-04-01-101011-927]. Accessed October 5, 2016. Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC). 2011. 2011 Riverside County Congestion Management Program. [http://www.rctc.org/uploads/media_items/congestionmanagementprogram.original.pdf]. Accessed February 22, 2016. National Research Council, Transportation Research Board. 2000. Highway Capacity Manual 2000. URS. 2016b. Traffic Impact Analysis for the Desert Quartzite Solar Project. January 2016.

Chapter 3.18 Utilities and Public Services City of Blythe Planning Department. 2007. City of Blythe General Plan 2025. March 2007. [http://www.cityofblythe.ca.gov/documents/13/City%20of%20Blythe%20Draft%20General%20 Plan%202025_201401171351446414.pdf]. Accessed February 9, 2016.

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City of Blythe. 2016. [http://www.cityofblythe.ca.gov/78/Waste-Water-Treatment- Plant?NID=78]. Accessed February 9, 2016. National Center for Educational Statistics. 2016. Search for Schools, Colleges, and Libraries. Online database. School year 2014-2015 Statistics. [http://nces.ed.gov/globallocator/]. Accessed February 9, 2016. Palo Verde Irrigation District (PVID). 2012. [http://www.pvid.org/history.html]. Accessed February 9, 2016. Riverside County Waste Management Department. 2016. [http://www.rcwaste.org/opencms/landfill/hours.html]. Accessed January 20, 2016. URS. 2015. Phase I Environmental Site Assessment for the First Solar Desert Quartzite Solar Project.

Chapter 3.19 Visual Resources Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 1980. The California Desert Conservation Area Plan, as amended. [http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib//blm/ca/pdf/pdfs/cdd_pdfs.Par.aa6ec747.File.pdf/CA_Desert _.pdf]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 1984. Visual Resource Management Manual 8400. April 5, 1984. [http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/wo/Information_Resources_Management/policy/blm_m anual.Par.34032.File.dat/8400.pdf]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 1986a. Visual Resource Inventory Manual H 8410 1. January 17, 1986. [http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/wo/Information_Resources_Management/policy/blm_h andbook.Par.31679.File.dat/H-8410.pdf]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 1986b. Visual Resource Contrast Rating Manual 8431. January 17, 1986. [http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/wo/Information_Resources_Management/policy/blm_h andbook.Par.79462.File.dat/8431.pdf]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2010. The Visual Resource Inventory of the Palm Springs Field Office (Completed by OTAK). Dalton, J. 2015. Bureau of Land Management, Palm Springs Field Office. Email Correspondence with L. Kling (URS Corporation) on November 9, 2015. Riverside County. 2015a. County of Riverside General Plan, December 15, 2015. [http://planning.rctlma.org/ZoningInformation/GeneralPlan.aspx]. Accessed October 5, 2016. Riverside County. 2015b. Palo Verde Valley Area Plan. December 8, 2015. [http://planning.rctlma.org/Portals/0/genplan/general_plan_2016/area_plans/PVVAP_120815m.p df?ver=2016-04-01-101011-927]. Accessed October 5, 2016. URS. 2016c. Visual Resources Technical Report for the Desert Quartzite Solar Project. January, 2016.

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Chapter 3.20 Water Resources AECOM. 2009. Hydrogeologic Investigation - Blythe Solar Power Project, Riverside County, California: Application for Certification – Appendix J2 (December, 2009). AECOM. 2011. Assessment of Proposed Groundwater Use – Results of Numerical Groundwater, McCoy Solar Energy Project, Palo Verde Mesa, Riverside County, California (August, 2011). Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2012b. Final Environmental Impact Statement for the McCoy Solar Energy Project, CACA 048728, December, 2012. California Department of Water Resources (DWR). 1978. Bulletin No. 91-23, Water Wells and Springs in Palo Verde Valley, Riverside and Imperial Counties, California: Prepared by the United States Department of the Interior – Geological Survey. California Department of Water Resources (DWR). 1979. Bulletin 91-24, Sources of Power Plant Cooling Water in the Desert Area of Southern California – Reconnaissance Study: Prepared by the United States Department of Interior - Geological Survey. California Department of Water Resources (DWR). 2003. Bulletin 118, California’s Groundwater. [http://www.water.ca.gov/pubs/groundwater/bulletin_118/california%27s_groundwater bulletin_118_­_update_2003_/bulletin118_entire.pdf]. Accessed February 24, 2016. California Department of Water Resources (DWR). 2004. Palo Verde Mesa Groundwater Basin. [http://www.water.ca.gov/pubs/groundwater/bulletin_118/basindescriptions/7-39.pdf]. Accessed February 24, 2016. California Irrigation Management Information System (CIMIS). 2016. Monthly Average ETo. [http://wwwcimis.water.ca.gov/WSNReportCriteria.aspx]. Accessed February 24 2016. Colorado River Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB). 2017. Water Quality Control Plan, Colorado River Basin – Region 7. [https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/coloradoriver/water_issues/programs/basin_planning/docs/bp0 32014/entire_basinplan_combined.pdf]. Accessed January 11, 2018. Dawson, B.J.M., and Belitz, K. 2012. Status of Groundwater Quality in the California Desert Region, 2006–2008—California GAMA Priority Basin Project: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2012–5040, 110 p. Goldrath, D.A., Wright, M.T., and Belitz, K. 2009. Groundwater-Quality Data in the Colorado River Study Unit, 2007: Results from the California GAMA program: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 474, 66 p. Greer, C., Quinn, J., Carr, A.E. and O'Connor, B.L. 2013. A Groundwater Model to Assess Water Resource Impacts at the Riverside East Solar Energy Zone (No. ANL/EVS/R--13/8). Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL. Hely and Peck. 1964. Precipitation, Runoff and Water Loss in the Lower Colorado River-Salton Sea Area: USGS Professional Paper 486B. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0486b/report.pdf]. Accessed March 21, 2016. Huffman-Broadway. 2015. Investigation of the Presence of Corps and US EPA Jurisdictional Waters, Desert Quartzite Project Site.

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Huffman-Broadway. 2017. Identification and Delineation of Areas Potentially Subject to Jurisdiction under the California Department of Fish and Wildlife Lake and Streambed Alteration Program, Desert Quartzite Project Site. Leake, S. A., W. Greer, D. Watt, and P. Weghorst. 2008. Use of Superposition Models to Simulate Possible Depletion of Colorado River Water by Ground-Water Withdrawal – Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5189 (Prepared in Cooperation with the Bureau of Reclamation): U.S Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2008/5189/sir2008-5189.pdf]. Accessed February 24, 2016. Metzger, D.G. 1968. The Bouse Formation (Pliocene) of the Parker-Blythe-Cibola area, Arizona and California, in Geological Survey research 1968, Chapter D: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 600-D, p. D126-D136. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0600d/report.pdf]. Accessed March 21, 2016. Metzger, D.G., O. J. Loeltz, and Burdge Irelna. 1973. Geohydrology of the Parker-Blythe-Cibola Area, Arizona and California. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 486-G. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0486g/report.pdf]. Accessed February 24, 2016. Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWCQB). 2006. Colorado River Basin Water Quality Control Plan. State Water Resources Control Board. 2018. 2014-2016 California Integrated Report, Clean Water Act Sections 303(d) and 305(b). Available on line at: https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/tmdl/integrated2014_2016.shtml. Stone, Paul. 2006. Geologic map of the west half of the Blythe 30’ by 60’ quadrangle, Riverside County, California and La Paz County, Arizona: U.S. Geol. Survey Pamphlet to accompany Scientific Investigations Map 2922. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/2006/2922/SIM2922_pamphlet.pdf]. Accessed February 24, 2016. TLA Engineering and Planning. 2011. Desert Quartzite Solar Project Drainage Report. August 10, 2011. URS. 2016d. Proposed Groundwater Use – Numerical Groundwater Modeling Report for the Desert Quartzite Solar Project. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR). 2011. Colorado River Accounting and Water Use Report: Arizona, California, and Nevada, Calendar Year 2010. [http://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/g4000/4200Rpts/DecreeRpt/2010/2010.pdf]. Accessed March 21, 2016. Western Regional Climate Center (WRCC). 2018b. Blythe CAA Airport, California Period of Record General Climate Summary - Temperature. Accessed at https://wrcc.dri.edu/cgi- bin/cliMAIN.pl?ca0927 on April 25, 2018. Western Regional Climate Center (WRCC). 2018c. Blythe CAA Airport, California Period of Record General Climate Summary - Precipitation. Accessed at https://wrcc.dri.edu/cgi- bin/cliMAIN.pl?ca0927 on April 25, 2018. Wilson, Richard P. and Sandra L. Owen-Joyce. 1994. Method to Identify Wells that Yield Water that Will be Replaced by Colorado River Water in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah. U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Investigation Report 94-4005. [http://www.crb.ca.gov/USGS%2094-4005%201st%20part.pdf].

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Chapter 3.21 Wildland Fire Ecology Brooks, M.L. 1998. Ecology of a biological invasion: alien annual plants in the Mojave Desert. Ph.D. Dissertation University of California, Riverside. 186. p. (as cited in BLM 2002). Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2002. Proposed Northern and Eastern Colorado Desert Coordinated Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/news/pdfs/neco2002/Table%20of%20Contents.pdf]. CAL FIRE. 2010. 2010 Strategic Fire Plan for California. [http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/pub/fireplan/fpupload/fpppdf668.pdf]. Accessed February 9, 2016. CAL FIRE. 2016. Fire Hazard Severity Maps. [http://www.fire.ca.gov/fire_prevention/fire_prevention_wildland_zones_maps]. Accessed February 9, 2016. Malo, J. E., and F. Suarez. 1995. Cattle dung and the fate of Biserrulapelecinus L. in a Mediterranean pasture: seed dispersal, germination and recruitment. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 118: 139-48. (as cited in BLM 2002). North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). 2006. [http://www.hged.com/community-environment/environment/veg-management-plan/vmp-2013- docs/Final_VMP_20130517%20Appendices.pdf]. Accessed February 29, 2016 North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). 2014. Critical Infrastructure Protection Program – Physical Security. [http://www.nerc.com/_layouts/PrintStandard.aspx?standardnumber=CIP-014-2&title=Physical Security&jurisdiction=United States]. Accessed February 29, 2016.

Chapter 4.2 Air Resources California Air Resources Board (CARB). 2018. Facility Search Results. Accessed at: https://www.arb.ca.gov/app/emsinv/facinfo/faccrit.php?dd=&grp=1&sort=FacilityNameA&dbyr =2016&ab_=MD&dis_=MOJ&co_=33&fname_=&city_=&fzip_=&fsic_=&facid_=&all_fac=C &displayit=Pollutant&showpol=PM&showpol2= on April 27, 2018. Mojave Desert Air Quality Management (MDAQMD). 2011. CEQA and Federal Conformity Guidelines. August. [http://www.mdaqmd.ca.gov/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=2910]. Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. 2012. A Risk Assessment Evaluation of New Technology Diesel Engine Exhaust Composition. June. Available at: http://www.oehha.ca.gov/public_info/DEEposter.html. South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD). 2006. Final – Methodology to Calculate PM2.5 and PM2.5 Significance Thresholds (10/1/2006, Appendix A – Updated CEIDARS Table with PM2.5 Fractions). http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aqmd.gov%2Fdocs%2Fdefault- source%2Fceqa%2Fhandbook%2Flocalized-significance-thresholds%2Fparticulate-matter-(pm)- 2.5-significance-thresholds-and-calculation-methodology%2Ffinal-methodology-to-calculate- pm2-5-and-pm2-5-significance- thresholds.doc&usg=AFQjCNGrmgEcIzgMbcBu2dLwTwa4Z7i3lw.

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South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD). 2012. Air Quality Analysis Handbook, Tables XI-A, XI-D, and XI-E. http://www.aqmd.gov/home/regulations/ceqa/air- quality-analysis-handbook/mitigationmeasures-and-control-efficiencies/fugitive-dust. Scientific Resources Associated (SRA). 2013. Air Quality and Global Climate Change Report for the Blythe Mesa Solar Project, included as Appendix B in Riverside County, 2014. Final Environmental Impacts Report/Environmental Assessment, Blythe Mesa Solar Project. URS. 2015. Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Technical Study for the Desert Quartzite Solar Project. December 2015.

Chapter 4.3 Biological Resources - Vegetation Abella, Scott R. 2010. Disturbance and Plant Succession in the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts of the American Southwest. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. ISSN 1660-4601. Avian Power Line Interaction Committee (APLIC). 1994. Mitigating bird collisions with power lines: the state of the art in 1994. Washington, DC U.S.A Edison Electric Institute. Avian Power Line Interaction Committee (APLIC). 2006. Suggested Practices for Avian Protection on Power Lines: The State of the Art in 2006. Edison Electric Institute, APLIC, and the California Energy Commission. Washington, D.C. and Sacramento, CA. Boarman, W.I. 2002. Threats to desert tortoise populations: A critical review of the literature. U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Sacramento, California. Bach, A.J., 1995, Climatic Controls on Aeolian Activity in the Mojave and Colorado Deserts, California [Ph.D. thesis]: Tempe, Arizona State University, 308 p. Abstract accessed at: http://www.secheresse.info/spip.php?article36702 on February 24, 2018. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2002. Proposed Northern and Eastern Colorado Desert Coordinated Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS.) July 2002. [www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/cdd/neco.html] Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2007. Vegetation Treatments Using Herbicides on BLM Land in 17 Western States. Final EIS. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2016. Long Term Monitoring Strategy for the Riverside East Solar Energy Zone. May, 2016. Coachella Valley Conservation Commission. 2012. Coachella Valley Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan and Natural Community Conservation Plan: Aeolian Sand Communities and Species Monitoring Protocols. University of Riverside Center for Conservation Biology. March 8, 2012. Gibson. A. C., M. R. Sharifi, and P.W. Rundel. 2004. Resprout characteristics of creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) when subjected to repeated vehicle damage. Journal of Arid Environments Volume 57, Issue 4, June 2004, Pages 411-429. Griffiths, P.G., Webb, R.H., Lancaster, N., Kaehler, C.A., and Lindstrom, S.C. 2002. Long- Term Sand Supply to Coachella Valley Fringe-toed Lizard Habitat in the Northern Coachella Valley, California. U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigation Report 02-4013.

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Hillmer, J., and D. Liedtke. 2003. Safe herbicide handling: a guide for land stewards and volunteer stewards. Ohio Chapter, The Nature Conservancy, Dublin, OH. 20 pp. Kenney GeoScience. 2017. Geomorphic and Stratigraphic Evaluation of the Stable Early to Mid-Holocene Eolian (Wind-Blown) Dune Systems for Proposed Desert Quartzite Solar Project, Eastern Chuckwalla Valley and Palo Verde Mesa Area, Riverside, California. September 22, 2017. Lancaster, N. No Date. Response of Sand Dune Systems in the SW USA to Climate Change – Past, Present, and Future. Western Consortium.Org. Accessed February 22, 2018. Lancaster, N. 1988. Development of linear dunes in the southwestern Kalahari, southern Africa. J. Arid Environ. Vol.14, pg. 233. Lancaster, N., 2010; Evaluation of interactions between infrastructure and sand transport corridors in the Mojave Desert; Desert Research Institute. Lancaster, N. and Baas, A. 1998; Influence of vegetation cover on sand transport by wind: field studies at Owens Lake, California; Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 23, p. 69-82. Lancaster, N., and Tchakerian, V.P., 1996. Geomorphology and sediments of sand ramps in the Mojave Desert. Geomorphology 17, 151–165. Lancaster, N., and Tchakerian, V.P. 2003. Late Quaternary Eolian Dynamics, Mojave Desert, California, in Enzel, Y., Wells, S.G., and Lancaster, N., eds., Paleoenvironments and paleohydrology of the Mojave and southern Great Basin Deserts: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 368. Lancaster, J. T. 2014. Plate 2, Eolian System Map of the East Riverside Area. California Geological Survey map developed for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. In Lancaster, J. T., Bedrossian, T. L., and Holland, P., 2014, Eolian System Mapping for the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan, California Geological Survey, 54p., 4 plates (multiple map scales. Accessed at http://drecp.org/draftdrecp/comments/California_Department_of_Conservation/CGS_Report1_ EolianMapping_Plate2_EastRiverside.pdf on February 23, 2018. Lovich, J. E., and D. Bainbridge. 1999. Anthropogenic Degradation of the Southern California Desert Ecosystem and Prospects for Natural Recovery and Restoration. Environmental Management Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 309–326. Master, L., D. Faber-Langendoen, R. Bittman, G. A., Hammerson, B. Heidel, J. Nichols, L. Ramsay, and A. Tomaino. 2009. NatureServe Conservation Status Assessments: Factors for Assessing Extinction Risk. NatureServe, Arlington, VA. [http://www.natureserve.org/publications/ConsStatusAssess_StatusFactors.pdf] Morse, L.E., J.M. Randall, N. Benton, R. Hiebert, and S. Lu, 2004. An Invasive Species Assessment Protocol: Evaluating Non-Native Plants for Their Impact on Biodiversity. Version 1. NatureServe, Arlington, VA. [http://www.natureserve.org/library/invasiveSpeciesAssessmentProtocol.pdf] Muhs, D.R., Bush, C.A., Cowherd, S.D., Mahan, S., 1995. Geomorphic and geochemical evidence for the source of sand in the Algodones dunes, Colorado Desert, southeastern California. In: Tchakerian, V.P. (Ed.), Desert Aeolian Processes. Chapman and Hall, London, pp. 37–74.

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Muhs, D.R., Reynolds, R.L., Been, J., and Skipp, G. 2003. Eolian Sand Transport Pathways in the Southwestern United States: importance of the Colorado River and Local Sources. Quaternary International Vo. 104, Pgs. 3-18. Muhs, D.R., Lancaster, N., and Skipp, G.L.. 2017. A Complex Origin for the Kelso Dunes, Mojave National Preserve, California, USA: A Case Study Using a Simple Geochemical Method with Global Applications. Geomorphology, Vol. 276, Pg. 222-243. National Invasive Species Council, 2008. 2008-2012 National Invasive Species Management Plan. Department of the Interior. 35 pp. Stone, P. 2006. Geologic Map of the West Half of the Blythe 30’ by 60’ Quadrangle, Riverside County, California and La Paz County, Arizona. Accessed on February 24, 2018 at: https://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/2006/2922/SIM2922_map.pdf Tsoar, H., 1983. Wind Tunnel Modeling of Echo and Climbing Dunes. In: M.E. Brookfield, T.S. Ahlbrandt (Eds.), Eolian Sediments and Processes. Developments in Sedimentology. Elsevier, Amsterdam, Oxford, New York, Tokyo, pp. 247-­‐259. Tsoar, H. 2004. Sand Dunes Mobility and Stability in Relation to Climate. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 357(1). Accessed at https:www.researchgate.net/publication/228530676_Sand_dunes_mobility_and_stability_in_rel ation_to_climate, on February 22, 2018. Zeiner, D. C., W. F.Laudenslayer, Jr., K. E. Mayer, and M. White, eds. 1990. California's Wildlife. Vol. I‐III. California Depart. of Fish and Game, Sacramento, California. California Wildlife Habitat Relationship System (CWHRS). [http://www.dfg.ca.gov/biogeodata/cwhr/cawildlife.aspx]. Accessed October 2010. Zimbelman, J.R., Williams, S.H., Tchakerian, V.P., 1995. Sand transport paths in the Mojave Desert, southwestern United States. In: Tchakerian, V.P. (Ed.), Desert Aeolian Processes. Chapman and Hall, London, pp. 101–129

Chapter 4.4 Biological Resources - Wildlife Avian Power Line Interaction Committee (APLIC). 2006. Suggested Practices for Avian Protection on Power Lines: The State of the Art in 2006. Edison Electric Institute, APLIC, and the California Energy Commission. Washington, D.C. and Sacramento, CA. Berry, K. H and M. M. Christopher. 2001. Guidelines for the Field Evaluation of Desert Tortoise Health and Disease. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 37(3), 2001, pp. 427–450. Boarman, W.I. 2002. Threats to desert tortoise populations: A critical review of the literature. U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Sacramento, California. Boarman, W.I., and K. H. Berry. 1995. Common ravens in the Southwestern United States, 1968-92. Pp.73-75 in Our living resources: A report to the nation on the distribution, abundance, and health of U.S. plants, animals, and ecosystems (E. T. Laroe, ed.). U.S. Department of the Interior--National Biological Service, Washington D.C. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2002. Proposed Northern and Eastern Colorado Desert Coordinated Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS.) July 2002. [www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/cdd/neco.html]

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Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). 2012. Approved Resource Management Plan Amendments/Record of Decision for Solar Energy Development in Six Southwestern States. Appendix A—Land Use Plan Amendments. October 2012. [http://blmsolar.anl.gov/documents/docs/peis/Solar_PEIS_ROD.pdf.] California Burrowing Owl Consortium (CBOC), 1993. Burrowing Owl Survey Protocol and Mitigation Guidelines, April 1993,13 pp. California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW). 2012. Staff Report on Burrowing Owl Mitigation. Department of Fish and Game. March 7, 2012. http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/nongame/docs/ BUOWStaffReport.pdf2. Horvath, Gabor, G. Kriska, P. Malik, and B. Robertson. 2009. Polarized light pollution: a new kind of ecological photopollution. The Ecological Society of America, Front Col Environ 7(6): 317–325, doi:10.1890/080129 (published online 7 Jan 2009). [http://www.co.kern.ca.us/planning/pdfs/eirs/recurrent_desert/recurrent_rtc_att.pdf.] Ironwood Consulting Inc. 2016. Biological Resources Technical Report, Desert Quartzite Solar Project. January, 2016. Martin, T. E., and G. R. Geupel. 1993. Nest-monitoring plots: methods for locating nests and monitoring success. J. Field Ornithol. 64:507-519. Pagel, J.E., D.M. Whittington, and G.T. Allen. 2010. Interim Golden Eagle inventory and monitoring protocols; and other recommendations. Division of Migratory Birds, United States Fish and Wildlife Service (February, 2010). U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). 1994. Desert Tortoise (Mojave population) Recovery Plan. Portland, Oregon. 73 pages plus appendices. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). 2008. Final Environmental Assessment to Implement a Desert Tortoise Recovery Plan Task: Reduce Common Raven Predation on the Desert Tortoise. March 2008. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). 2009. Desert Tortoise Field Manual. [http://www.fws.gov/ventura/species_information/ protocols_guidelines/] U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). 2010. Revised pre-project survey protocols for the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii). Western EcoSystems Technology (WEST), Inc. 2017. Bird and Bat Conservation Strategy, Desert Quartzite Solar Energy Project, Riverside County, California. Prepared for Desert Quartzite, LLC. June 09.

Chapter 4.5 Cultural Resources Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2010. Plan Amendment/Final EIS for the Genesis Solar Energy Project. August. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2011. Desert Sunlight Solar Farm Project, California Desert Conservation Plan Amendment and Final Environmental Impact Statement. April. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2012b. McCoy Solar Energy Project, Proposed Plan Amendment and Final Environmental Impact Statement. December.

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Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2012f. Desert Harvest Solar Project, Final Environmental Impact Statement and Proposed California Desert Conservation Area Plan Amendment. December. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2014. Modified Blythe Solar Power Project Final EIS. May. California Energy Commission (CEC) and Western Area Power Authority (WAPA). 2005. Final Staff Assessment for the Blythe Energy Project Phase II, Application for Certification (02-AFC- 1), Riverside County. April. State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB). 2010. Eagle Mountain Pumped Storage Project Draft Environmental Impact Report, Volume I, State Clearinghouse No. 2009011010, FERC Project No. 13123. July. WAPA (Western Area Power Administration). 2011. Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Quartzsite Solar Energy Project and Proposed Yuma Field Office Resource Management Plan Amendment, October. WAPA (Western Area Power Administration), CEC, and BLM. 2010. Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Staff Assessment for the Solar Reserve LLC Rice Solar Energy Project, Riverside County, California (DOE/EIS-0439). October.

Chapter 4.6 Environmental Justice Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). 1997. Environmental Justice Guidance Under the National Environmental Policy Act. [http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/nepapub/nepa_documents/RedDont/G-CEQ-EJGuidance.pdf]. Accessed March 31, 2016. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 1998. Final Guidance for Incorporating Environmental Justice Concerns in EPA’s NEPA Compliance Analyses. [https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-04/documents/ej-guidance-nepa-compliance- analyses.pdf]. Accessed March 31, 2016.

Chapter 4.7 Geology and Soil Resources Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2010. Blythe Solar Power Project Environmental Impact Statement, Section 4.11, Impacts on Public Health and Safety. [http://www.blm.gov/pgata/etc/medialib/blm/ca/pdf/palmsprings/blythe_feis0.Par.78231.File.dat/ Vol1_Blythe%20PA-FEIS_ch4.pdf]. California Geological Survey (CGS). 2008. Earthquake Shaking Potential for California, prepared by D. Branum, S. Harmsen, E. Kalkan, M. Petersen and C. Wills, CGS Map Sheet 48. TLA Engineering and Planning. 2011. Effects of the Project on Stormwater Flow during a 100- Year Storm Event. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS). 1969. Soil Survey of Palo Verde Area, California. URS. 2011. Preliminary Geotechnical Investigation Report for the First Solar Development, Inc., Desert Quartzite Solar Project, Riverside County, California.

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Chapter 4.8 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). 2012. Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for Solar Energy Development in Six Southwestern States. Executive Summary. [http://solareis.anl.gov/documents/fpeis/Solar_FPEIS_ExecutiveSummary.pdf].

California Air Resources Board (CARB). 2014. Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6) Emission Reductions Frequently Asked Questions. [http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/sf6elec/faq/faq.htm#1]. Accessed March 15, 2016. California Department of Water Resources (DWR). 2008. Managing an Uncertain Future: Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for California’s Water. October, 2008. [http://www.water.ca.gov/climatechange/docs/ClimateChangeWhitePaper.pdf]. Accessed March 15, 2016. California Department of Water Resources (DWR). 2011. Climate Change Handbook for Regional Water Planning, Section 1 Overview of IRWM Planning and Climate Change. [http://www.water.ca.gov/climatechange/docs/Section%201%20Overview%20of%20IRWM%20 Planning%20and%20Climate%20Change-final.pdf]. Accessed March 15, 2016. Christensen, N. S., A. W. Wood, N. Voisin, D. P. Lettenmaier, and R. N. Palmer, 2004. Effects of climate change on the hydrology and water resources of the Colorado River Basin, Climatic Change, 62, pages 337–363, 2004. Cooley, H., J. Christian-Smith, P.H. Gleick, L. Allen, and M. Cohen. 2009. Understanding and Reducing the Risks of Climate Change for Transboundary Waters. Pacific Institute. December, 2009. [http://www.pacinst.org/reports/transboundary_waters/transboundary_water_and_climate_report. pdf]. Accessed March 15, 2016. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 2007. Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report. [http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr.pdf]. Accessed March 15, 2016. International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR). 2008. Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction. [http://www.unisdr.org/files/4146_ClimateChangeDRR.pdf]. Accessed March 15, 2016. Seager, R., M. Ting, I. Held, Y. Kushnir, J. Lu, G. Vecchi, H. Huang, N. Harnik, A. Leetmaa, N. Lau, C. Li, J. Velez, and N. Naik. 2007. Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to a More Arid Climate in Southwestern North America. Science.10:1126. United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). 2010. Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Title V Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule; Final Rule. United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). 2013. Greenhouse Gases Reporting Program Implementation, Fact Sheet. [https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2014- 09/documents/ghgrp-overview-factsheet.pdf]. Accessed April 14, 2016. United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). 2010. Rising to the Challenge: Strategic Plan for Responding to Accelerating Climate Change. [http://www.fws.gov/home/climatechange/pdf/CCStrategicPlan.pdf]. Accessed March 15, 2016.

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URS. 2015. Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Technical Study for the Desert Quartzite Solar Project. December 2015. Wohlfahrt, Georg, Lynn F. Fenstermaker, and John A. Arnone III. 2008. Large annual net ecosystem CO2 uptake of a Mojave Desert ecosystem. Global Change Biology (2008) 14, 1475–1487.

Chapter 4.9 Hazards and Hazardous Materials California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), 2006. Opinion on Commission Policies Addressing Electromagnetic Fields Emanating from Regulated Utility Facilities. [http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/word_pdf/FINAL_DECISION/53181.pdf]. Accessed March 31, 2016. Desert Quartzite. 2015. Draft Decommissioning and Site Reclamation Plan. Fthenakis, Vasilis M. 2003. Could CdTe PV Modules Pollute the Environment? National Photovoltaic Environmental Health and Safety Assistance Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory.[http://www.bnl.gov/pv/files/pdf/art_164.pdf]. Accessed March 31, 2016. Fthenakis, V. M., H. C. Kim, and E. Alsema, 2008. Emissions from Photovoltaic Life Cycles, Environmental Science and Technology. Vol. 42, No. 6, 2,168-2,174. Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), 2010. Environmental risks regarding the use and end­- of-life disposal of CdTe PV Modules. [http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/LawsRegsPolicies/upload/Norwegian-Geotechnical-Institute- Study.pdf]. Accessed March 31, 2016. Riverside County Operational Area Emergency Operations Plan (RCFD 2006) [http://www.rvcfire.org/ourDepartment/OES/Documents/Final_EOP_Part_1_Feb_2006.pdf] Accessed February 24, 2016 Riverside County Airport Land Use Commission (ALUC). 2004. Riverside County Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan (RCALUCP), Volume 1, Policy Document. [http://www.rcaluc.org/Portals/0/PDFGeneral/plan/newplan/04- %20Vol.%201%20County%20wide%20Policies.pdf]. Sinha, Parikhit, Robert Balas, Lisa Krueger, and Andreas Wade, 2012. Fate and Transport Evaluation of Potential Leaching Risks from Cadmium Telluride Photovoltaics. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 2012;31:1670–1675. July. URS. 2015. Phase I Environmental Site Assessment for the First Solar Desert Quartzite Solar Project. U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT). 2013. FAA Order JO 7400.2J. Procedures for Handling Airspace Matters. [http://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Order/AIR.pdf]. Accessed March 31, 2016.

Chapter 4.10 Lands, Realty, and Agricultural and Forestry Resources Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 1980. The California Desert Conservation Area Plan, as amended. [http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib//blm/ca/pdf/pdfs/cdd_pdfs.Par.aa6ec747.File.pdf/CA_Desert _.pdf].

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Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2005. Land Use Planning Handbook, BLM Handbook H- 1601-1. [http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/ak/aktest/planning/planning_general.Par.65225.Fil e.dat/blm_lup_handbook.pdf]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2007. Vegetation Treatments Using Herbicides Final EIS. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2008. Manual 6840 - Special Status Species Management. [http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/wo/Information_Resources_Management/pollicy/ blm_manual.Par.43545.File.dat/6840.pdf]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2009. Approved Resource Management Plan/Record of Decision for Designation of Energy Corridors on Bureau of Land Management Administered Lands in the 11 Western States, January 14, 2009. [http://www.corridoreis.anl.gov/documents/docs/Energy_Corridors_final_signed_ROD_1_14_20 09.pdf]. California Department of Conservation, Division of Land Resource Protection, Conservation Program Support. 2012. Map of Williamson Act lands in western Riverside County. [ftp://ftp.consrv.ca.gov/pub/dlrp/wa/riverside_e_08_09_WA.pdf]. California Department of Conservation. 2014. California Important Farmland Finder. [http://maps.conservation.ca.gov/ciff/]. Accessed January 13, 2016. Riverside County. 2015a. County of Riverside General Plan, December 15, 2015. [http://planning.rctlma.org/ZoningInformation/GeneralPlan.aspx]. Accessed October 5, 2016. Riverside County. 2015b. Palo Verde Valley Area Plan. December 8, 2015. [http://planning.rctlma.org/Portals/0/genplan/general_plan_2016/area_plans/PVVAP_120815m.p df?ver=2016-04-01-101011-927]. Accessed October 5, 2016. Riverside County. 2015c. Riverside County TLMA GIS map of the Project area. Created September 22, 2015.

Chapter 4.12 Noise California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), 2013. Transportation and Construction Vibration Guidance Manual. September 2013. [http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/env/noise/pub/TCVGM_Sep13_FINAL.pdf] Accessed June 20, 2018. California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). 2010. Draft Environmental Impact Report for Southern California Edison’s Devers-Mirage 115 kV Subtransmission System Split Project, State Clearing House Number 2008041087, January 2010. [http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/environment/info/esa/devers-mirage/deir/cov_noa_toc.pdf] Accessed February 25, 2016. Federal Highway Administration. 1995. Highway Traffic Noise Analysis and Abatement Policy and Guidance, U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Environment and Planning, Noise and Air Quality Branch, Washington, D.C. June. Riverside County. 2014. Blythe Mesa Solar Project, Draft Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Assessment. June, 2014.

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Riverside County. 2017. Knox Business Park Noise Impact Analysis. January 31. URS. 2015. Noise Technical Report for the Desert Quartzite Solar Project. December 2015. U.S. Department of Transportation. 2006. FHWA Roadway Construction Noise Model User’s Guide, Federal Highway Administration, FHWA-HEP-05-054. [https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/noise/construction_noise/rcnm/rcnm.pdf] Accessed February 25, 2016.

Chapter 4.13 Paleontological Resources Reynolds, R. E., and E. B. Lander. 2016. Preliminary Paleontological Resources Assessment Technical Report, prepared in support of Desert Quartzite Solar Project. Prepared by Paleo Environmental Associates, Altadena, California, for Statistical Research, Redlands, California, and Desert Quartzite, LLC, San Francisco. March, 2016. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP). 2010. Impact Mitigation Guidelines Revision Committee Standard procedures for assessment and mitigation of adverse impacts to paleontological resources. [http://vertpaleo.org/Membership/Member- Ethics/SVP_Impact_Mitigation_Guidelines.aspx]. Accessed April 4, 2016.

Chapter 4.14 Recreation and Public Access Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2015. Long Term Visitor Areas webpage. Last updated January 12, 2015. [http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/elcentro/recreation/ltvas.html]. Accessed on August 20, 2015.

Chapter 4.15 Social and Economic Setting California State Board of Equalization (BOE). 2004. Solar Energy New Construction Exclusion, letter to County Assessors, No. 2004/051, (September 20, 2004). [https://www.boe.ca.gov/proptaxes/pdf/lta04051.pdf]. Accessed February 18, 2016. California State Board of Equalization (BOE). 2014. Property Texas 2013 to 2014. [http://www.boe.ca.gov/annual/2013-14/table_14/table14_2013-14.pdf]. Accessed February 18, 2016. California State Board of Equalization (BOE). 2013. City and County Sales and Use Tax Rates. [http://www.lcwlegal.com/files/California%20City%20and%20County%20Sales%20and%20Us e%20Tax%20Rates%20-%20January%202013.pdf]. Accessed February 18, 2016. California State Board of Equalization (BOE). 2015a. Detailed Description of the Sales and Use Tax Rate. [http://www.boe.ca.gov/news/sp111500att.htm]. Accessed February 18, 2016. California State Board of Equalization (BOE). 2015b. Third Quarter 2015 Sales and Use Taxes. [http://www.boe.ca.gov/sutax/pdf/3q-15-distribution.pdf]. Accessed February 18, 2016 Imperial County. 2011. Fiscal and Economic Impact Analysis: Imperial Solar Energy Center South, Prepared by Affiliated Research Economics, (April, 2011).

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[http://www.affiliatedrecon.com/studies/CA/Imperial_County/ISEC/South/South-FIA-EIA- Draft.pdf]. Accessed February 18, 2016. Minnesota IMPLAN Group (MIG), Inc. 2015. IMPLAN Version 3.0, Software for Economic Impact Analysis: Riverside County. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). 2011. Solar PV Manufacturing Cost Model Group, Installed Solar PV System Prices, NREL/PR-6A20-50955, (February 8, 2011). [http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy11osti/50955.pdf]. Accessed February 18, 2016. Riverside County. 2015a. County of Riverside General Plan, December 15, 2015. [http://planning.rctlma.org/ZoningInformation/GeneralPlan.aspx]. Accessed October 5, 2016. Riverside County. 2015e. Annual Report 2013-2014. [http://www.asrclkrec.com/Portals/1/Documents/Reports/Annual%20Reports/2014%20- %202015.pdf]. Accessed February 18, 2016.

Chapter 4.17 Transportation and Traffic California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). 2002. Caltrans Guide for the Preparation of Traffic Impact Studies. [http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/tpp/offices/ocp/igr_ceqa_files/tisguide.pdf]. Accessed on March 7, 2016. California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). 2010. California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, (January 21, 2010). Riverside County. 2008. Traffic Impact Analysis Preparation Guide. [http://rctlma.org/Portals/7/documents/pamphlets/traffic_impact_anaylsis.pdf]. Accessed March 17, 2016. URS. 2016b. Traffic Impact Analysis for the Desert Quartzite Solar Project.

Chapter 4.18 Utilities and Public Services AECOM. 2009. Hydrogeologic Investigation - Blythe Solar Power Project, Riverside County, California: Application for Certification – Appendix J2 (December, 2009). California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle). 2016. Facility/Site Summary Details: Blythe Sanitary Landfill (33-AA-0017). [http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/SWFacilities/Directory/33-AA-0017/Detail/]. Accessed January 20, 2016. Riverside County Waste Resources Management District. 1996. Countywide Integrated Waste Management Plan. [http://www.rcwaste.org/DesktopModules/Bring2mind/DMX/Download.aspx?PortalId=0&Entry Id=92]. Accessed November 15, 2016. URS. 2016d. Proposed Groundwater Use – Numerical Groundwater Modeling Report for the Desert Quartzite Solar Project.

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Chapter 4.19 Visual Resources Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 1986. Visual Resource Contrast Rating Manual 8431. January 17, 1986. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). 2012. Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for Solar Energy Development in Six Southwestern States. Executive Summary. [http://solareis.anl.gov/documents/fpeis/Solar_FPEIS_ExecutiveSummary.pdf]. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2013. Best Management Practices for Reducing Visual Impacts of Renewable Energy Facilities. http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/wy/programs/energy/reco.Par.61853.File.dat/BLMvisual -BMP.pdf. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 2016. Long Term Monitoring Strategy for the Riverside East Solar Energy Zone. May, 2016. BrightSource. 2011. Rio Mesa Solar Energy Generation Project, Application for Certification, Section 1, Executive Summary. [http://www.energy.ca.gov/sitingcases/riomesa/documents/applicant/afc/Section_1_Executive_S ummary.pdf]. Accessed April 5, 2016. City of Blythe Planning Department. 2007. City of Blythe General Plan 2025. March 2007. [http://www.cityofblythe.ca.gov/documents/13/City%20of%20Blythe%20Draft%20General%20 Plan%202025_201401171351446414.pdf]. Accessed February 9, 2016. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). 2010. Technical Guidance for Evaluating Selected Solar Technologies on Airports. November, 2010. Riverside County. 2015a. County of Riverside General Plan, December 15, 2015. [http://planning.rctlma.org/ZoningInformation/GeneralPlan.aspx]. Accessed October 5, 2016. Riverside County. 2015b. Palo Verde Valley Area Plan. December 8, 2015. [http://planning.rctlma.org/Portals/0/genplan/general_plan_2016/area_plans/PVVAP_120815m.p df?ver=2016-04-01-101011-927]. Accessed October 5, 2016. URS. 2016c. Visual Resources Technical Report for the Desert Quartzite Solar Project. January 2016. U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI). 2010. Bureau of Land Management and Department of Energy, Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement Solar Energy Development in Six Western States. December 2010. The following reference from this report was used as a secondary source in this PA/EIS/EIR: Sullivan, R.G., et. al., 2010. Visual Characteristics of Utility-Scale Solar Energy Facilities: Field Observation Report, in press.

Chapter 4.20 Water Resources Desert Quartzite, LLC, 2016. Plan of Development, Desert Quartzite Solar Project, BLM Project Number CACA #049397, November 15, 2016. Godfrey, P., Ludwig, N., and Salve, R. 2013. Groundwater and Large-scale Renewable Energy Projects on Federal Land: Chuckwalla Valley Groundwater Basin. Proceedings of the 2012 Arizona Hydrological Society Annual Water Symposium, September 18-21.

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TLA Engineering and Planning (TLA). 2011. Desert Quartzite Solar Project Drainage Report. August 10, 2011. URS. 2011. Preliminary Geotechnical Investigation Report for the First Solar Development, Inc. Desert Quartzite Solar Project CACA-049397, Riverside County, California, Township 7 South, Range 21 East, San Bernardino Baseline and Meridian, August. URS. 2016a. Water Supply Assessment for the Desert Quartzite Solar Project. June 2016. URS. 2016d. Proposed Groundwater Use – Numerical Groundwater Modeling Report for the Desert Quartzite Solar Project, Riverside County, California, April 28, 2016. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR). 2009, Colorado River Accounting and Water Use Report - Arizona, California, and Nevada Calendar Year 1993-2008: Lower Colorado Regional Office, Boulder Canyon Operations Office, Boulder City, Nevada. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 1988. Reconnaissance Investigation of Water Quality, Bottom Sediment, and Biota Associated with Irrigation Drainage in the Lower Colorado River Valley, Arizona, California, and Nevada, 1986-87. Water Resources Investigation Report 88-4002. February. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). 2009. Update of the Accounting Surface Along the Lower Colorado River. Scientific Investigations Report 2008-5113. Accessed on January 11, 2018 at https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2008/5113/

Chapter 6 Coordination, Consultation, and Public Involvement Department of Defense (DoD). 2014. Procedures Memo #4: Glint and Glare Issues on or Near Department of Defense Aviation Operations. June 13, 2014. [http://www.acq.osd.mil/dodsc/library/Procedures_Memo_4_Glint%20Glare%20Issues%20on% 20or%20near%20DoD%20Aviation%20Operations.pdf]. Accessed April 20, 2016. Department of Defense (DoD). 2015. Department of Defense Instruction Number 4165.57. Glint and Glare Issues in Air Installations Compatible Use Zones (AICUZ). [http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/416557p.pdf]. Accessed April 20, 2016. Department of Defense (DoD). 2016. DoD Mission Compatibility Evaluation Process Regulations. [http://www.acq.osd.mil/dodsc/]. Accessed April 20, 2016.

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