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Appendix I, Jordan Cove Energy Project Draft Appendix I Vegetation and Wildlife TABLES Table I-1 Commonly Occurring Fish and Invertebrate Species in Coos Bay Table I-2 Fish Utilization, EFH in, and Crossing Techniques and In- Water Work Windows for Waterbodies Crossed by the Proposed Route Table I-3 Special Status Marine Mammal and Terrestrial Wildlife Species That May Occur Near the JCEP & PCGP Project Table I-4 Special Status Fish Species and Aquatic Invertebrates That May Occur Near the JCEP & PCGP Project Table I-5 Special Status Plant (Vascular and Non-Vascular) and Fungi Species That May Occur Near the JCEP & PCGP Project Table I-6 Forest Operations Inventory Impacted by the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline Project Table I-7 Plant Association Groups on the Umpqua, Rogue River- Siskiyou, and Fremont-Winema National Forests Table I-8 Total Terrestrial Habitat (acres) Affected/Removed by Construction within Riparian Zones (One Site-Potential Tree Height Wide) Adjacent to Perennial and Intermittent Waterbodies on Federal and Non-Federal Lands Crossed by and Adjacent to the Pacific Connector Pipeline Project Table I-9 Total Terrestrial Habitat (acres) Within the 30-Foot-Wide Corridor Maintained During the Pacific Connector Pipeline Project Within Riparian Zones (One Site-Potential Tree Height Wide) Adjacent to Perennial and Intermittent Waterbodies on Federal and Non-Federal Land Crossed by and Adjacent to the Pipeline Project Table I-10 Numbers of Streams within Four Width Classes that would be Crossed by Dry Open-Cuts and Estimated Durations (Worst Case) for In-stream Sediment Table I-11 Maximum Distances Downstream to Attain SEV Scores 1 to 8 with TSS Concentrations and Durations due to Wet Open-Cut, Flume, and Dam-and-Pump Crossing Procedures in Each Fish-bearing Watershed to be Crossed by the Pacific Connector Pipeline Table I-12 Waterbodies with ESA Critical Habitat and Known or Assumed to Support ESA-Listed and Non-Listed Juvenile and Adult Salmonids with Risks of TSS Effects Downstream Generated during Crossing and Risks of TSS Effects Generated by Crossing Nearest Neighbor Waterbodies Table I-13 Numbers of Migratory Birds Potentially Nesting in Habitats Affected by the Pacific Connector Pipeline in Construction Spreads 1 through 5 EFFECTS OF THE PROJECT ON ESSENTIAL FISH HABITAT TABLES Jordan Cove Energy Project Draft EIS TABLE I-1 Commonly Occurring Fish and Invertebrate Species in Coos Bay Common Name Scientific Name Fish Species American shad Alosa sapidissima Arrow goby Clevelandia ios Bay goby Lepidogobius lepidus Bay pipefish Syngnathus griseolineatus Black rockfish Sebastes melanops Bocaccio Sebastes paucispinis Brown rockfish Sebastes auriculatus Buffalo sculpin Enophrys bison Cabezon Scorpaenichthys marmoratus Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha Coast range sculpin Cottus aleuticus Coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch Copper rockfish Sebastes caurinus Crescent gunnel Pholis laeta Cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki clarki English sole Parophrys vetulus Fluffy sculpin Oligocottus snyderi Green sturgeon Acipencer medirostris High cockscomb Anoplarchus purpurescens Jack smelt Atherinopsis californiensis Kelp greenling Hexagrammos decagrammus Largescale sucker Catostomus macrocheilus Lingcod Ophiodon elongatus Longnose dace Rhinichthys cataractae Northern anchovy Engraulis mordax Pacific herring Clupea harengus pallasi Pacific lamprey Entosphenus tridentatus Pacific sand lance Ammodytes hexapterus Pacific sardine Sardinops sagax Pacific staghorn sculpin Leptocottus armatus Pacific tomcod Microgadus proximus Pile perch Rhacochilus vacca Pinpoint gunnel Apodichthys flavidus Prickly sculpin Cottus asper Rainbow (steelhead) trout Oncorhynchus mykiss Red Irish lord Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus Redside shiner Richardsonius balteatus Rex sole Glyptocephalus zachirus Rock greenling Hexagrammos lagocephalus Rockweed gunnel Xererpes fucorum Saddleback gunnel Pholis ornata Sand sole Psettichthys melanostictus Sand lance Ammodytes hexapterus Shiner perch Cymatogaster aggregata Silver surf perch Hyperprosopon allipticum Speckled dace Rhinichthys osculus Speckled sanddab Citharichthys stigmaeus Staghorn sculpin Leptocottus armatus Starry flounder Platichthys stellatus Striped bass Morone saxatilis Striped perch Embiotoca lateralis Surf smelt Hypomesus pretiosus I.1-1 Appendix I – Vegetation and Wildlife Jordan Cove Energy Project Draft EIS TABLE I-1 Commonly Occurring Fish and Invertebrate Species in Coos Bay Common Name Scientific Name Threespine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus Topsmelt Atherinops affinis Tube-snout Aulorhynchus flavidus Walleye perch Hyperprosopon argenteum White bait smelt Aliosmerus elongatus White perch Phanerodon furcatus White sturgeon Acipenser transmontanus acipenser Invertebrate Species Butter clams Saxidomus gigantea Cockle clam Clinocardium nuttallii. Dungeness crab Cancer magister Porcelain crab Petrolisthes cinctipes Pea crab Pinnotheres pisum Green crab Carcinus maenas (introduced sp.) Gaper clams Tresus capax Ghost shrimp Neotrypaea californiensis Olympia oyster Ostrea lurida Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas Mussels Mytilus spp. Softshell clam Mya arenaria I.1-2 Appendix I – Vegetation and Wildlife Jordan Cove Energy Project Draft EIS TABLE I-2 Fish Utilization, EFH in, and Crossing Techniques and In-Water Work Windows for Waterbodies Crossed by the Proposed Route (revised April 2018) Equipment Bridges Y=Yes, Y* = Yes if flowing at time of construction, 1o= 1 pass required outside fish window1i = 1 pass Proposed required inside fish Approximate Crossing Fishery window, i =set Waterbodies Crossed NHD Waterbody Reach Pipeline Milepost Waterbody Type Method Scour ESA Species Anadromous Resident Coldwater EFH Species EFH Component Construction inside fish window, and Waterbody ID Code a/ and Jurisdiction (MP) Size b/ Level c/ Waterbody Crossing Rationale d/ Present/Habitat e/ Species Present f/ Species Present Present g/ Present g/ Window h/ N=None Coast Range Ecoregion, Coos Sub-basin (HUC 17100304), Coos Bay-Frontal Pacific Ocean (HUC 1710030403) Fifth field Watershed 8, Coos County, Oregon Estuary Drain (Alt Wet NH 17100304006491 State 0.00 Estuarine Major Pullback TEWA The Estuary Drain is not crossed by Southern DPS Green Fall Chinook, Coho, Various Marine Fish 4 Coastal Pelagic Coastal Pelagic Oct 1 to Feb 15 j/ Y (West)) Adjacent to the centerline. TEWA 0.10, which Sturgeon, T, CH Winter Steelhead, and Shellfish spp., 21 spp., Groundfish Pipeline crosses the drain, is required for the Oregon Coast ESU Pacific Lamprey, Groundfish spp, 2 spp, Salmonid HDD of Coos Bay to fabricate the Coho, migration, Eulachon Salmonid spp. spp. Fall Chinook/ HDD pipe string and to facilitate the rearing habitat T, CH Pelagic, Coho Rearing, HDD pullback operations. The Southern DPS Groundfish, and Migration Estuary Drain will be bridged to Eulachon, T Salmonids (see minimize disturbance Table 3B- 6) Coos Bay (NE-26) WB- 17100304006491 State 0.28 to 1.00 Estuarine Major HDD HDD feasibility based on geometry, Southern DPS Green Fall Chinook, Coho, Various Marine Fish 4 Coastal Pelagic Coastal Pelagic Oct 1 to Feb 15 j/ N T02-001 topography, and expected Sturgeon, T, CH Winter Steelhead, and Shellfish spp., 21 spp., Groundfish geotechnical conditions along Oregon Coast ESU Pacific Lamprey, Groundfish spp, 2 spp, Salmonid proposed alignment. Primary HDD Coho, migration, Eulachon Salmonid spp. spp. Fall Chinook/ activities are significantly set back rearing habitat T, CH Pelagic, Coho Rearing, from crossing. The HDD crossing Southern DPS Groundfish, and Migration method will not encumber the Eulachon, T Salmonids (see Federal Navigation crossed along Table 3B- 6) the HDD alignment. The HDD avoids in-water open cut crossing methods. Other trenchless crossing methods (conventional bore and Direct Pipe®) are not feasible based on crossing length. Coos Bay (NE-26) WB- 171003040064961 State 1.46 to 3.02 Estuarine HDD HDD feasibility based on geometry, Southern DPS Green Fall Chinook, Coho, Various Marine Fish 4 Coastal Pelagic Coastal Pelagic Oct 1 to Feb 15 k/ N T02-002 W-T02-001D topography, and expected Sturgeon, T, CH Winter Steelhead, and Shellfish spp., 21 spp., Groundfish geotechnical conditions along Oregon Coast ESU Pacific Lamprey, Groundfish spp, 2 spp, Salmonid proposed alignment. Primary HDD Coho, migration, Eulachon Salmonid spp. spp. Fall Chinook/ activities are significantly set back rearing habitat T, CH Pelagic, Coho Rearing, from crossing. The HDD crossing Southern DPS Groundfish, and Migration method will not encumber the Eulachon, T Salmonids (see Federal Navigation crossed along Table 3B- 6) the HDD alignment. The HDD avoids in-water open cut crossing methods. Other trenchless crossing methods (conventional bore and Direct Pipe®) are not feasible based on crossing length. Kentuck Slough EE-SS- 3.02 to 6.39R Perennial Minor HDD Pullback Adjacent riparian zone overlaps Oregon Coast ESU Coho, Winter Assumed Coho Coho Rearing, Jul 1 to Sep 15 9004 (EE-6) TEWA Adjacent construction ROW Coho, spawning Steelhead Migration riparian zone habitat T, CH Trib to Coos Bay (S1- 17100304000767 Private 6.39R Perennial Minor Dry Open-Cut Dry open-cut method Oregon Coast ESU Coho Assumed, Assumed Coho Assumed Unknown Jul 1 to Sep 15 Y* 01/EE-6) feasible/practical on small Coho, assumed Winter Steelhead channelized tributary within golf habitat T course lacking effect riparian vegetation. Willanch Slough (EE-7) 17100304001393 Private 8.27R Perennial Dry Open-Cut Dry open-cut method Oregon Coast ESU Coho, Winter Assumed Coho Coho Rearing, Jul 1 to Sep
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