FINAL Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement Master Special Use Permit and Permit to Construct Power Line Replacement Projects APPENDICES J U N E 2 0 1 5 L E A D A G E N CIES: P R E P A R E D B Y : California Public Utilities Commission 505 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102 605 Third Street State Clearinghouse No. 2013091070 Encinitas, CA 92024 United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Cleveland National Forest 10845 Rancho Bernardo Road San Diego, CA 92127 Forest Service Publication No. R5-MB-288 FINAL EIR/EIS FOR THE MASTER SPECIAL USE PERMIT AND PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT POWER LINE REPLACEMENT PROJECTS Lead Agencies: California Public Utilities Commission and United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Cleveland National Forest Prepared by: JUNE 2015 Printed on 30% post-consumer recycled material. FINAL EIR/EIS FOR THE MASTER SPECIAL USE PERMIT AND PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT POWERLINE REPLACEMENT PROJECTS Volume I, Part II: EIR/EIS Appendices Lead Agencies: California Public Utilities Commission and United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Cleveland National Forest Prepared by: JUNE 2015 Printed on 30% post-consumer recycled material. APPENDIX BIO-1 Supplementary Special-Status Plants Master Special Use Permit and Permit to Construct Power Line Replacement Projects APPENDIX BIO-1 – SUPPLEMENTARY SPECIAL-STATUS PLANTS The following 118 special-status plant species (organized by scientific name) are: (1) considered absent, (2) have a low potential to occur, or (3) have a moderate to high potential to occur and a “Low Rank”, which include those species with a CRPR 3.0, 4.0, or without a CRPR status, County List C, or only designated as NCCP and/or MSCP. Absent Species Of 118 special-status plant species, the following 76 special-status plant species are considered absent from the entire SDG&E’s proposed project area (see Table D.4-3 for special-status, potential to occur, and habitat requirements) and are not discussed further: California adolphia (Adolphia californica) Shaw’s agave (Agave shawii) Aphanisma (Aphanisma blitoides) Del Mar manzanita (Arctostaphylos glandulosa ssp. crassifolia) Rainbow manzanita (Arctostaphylos rainbowensis) San Diego sagewort (Artemisia palmeri) Braunton’s milk-vetch (Astragalus brauntonii) Harwood’s milk-vetch (Astragalus insularis var. harwoodii) Jaeger’s bush milk‐vetch (Astragalus pachypus var. jaegeri) Coastal dunes milk-vetch (Astragalus tener var. titi) Coulter’s saltbush (Atriplex coulteri) South Coast saltscale (Atriplex pacifica) Parish’s brittlescale (Atriplex parishii) California ayenia (Ayenia compacta) Encinitas baccharis (Baccharis vanessae) Fremont barberry (Berberis fremontii) Nevin’s barberry (Berberis nevinii) Santa Rosa basalt brodiaea (Brodiaea santarosae) Little-leaf elephant tree (Bursera microphylla) Round‐leaved filaree (California macrophylla) Pink fairy‐duster (Calliandra eriophylla) 2015 BIO-1-1 Final EIR/EIS Master Special Use Permit and Permit to Construct Power Line Replacement Projects APPENDIX BIO-1 – SUPPLEMENTARY SPECIAL-STATUS PLANTS Arizona pussypaws (Calyptridium parryi var. arizonicum [Calyptridium arizonicum]) San Luis Obispo sedge (Carex obispoensis) Arizona carlowrightia (Carlowrightia arizonica) San Bernardino Mountains owl’s-clover (Castilleja lasiorhyncha) Wart‐stemmed ceanothus (Ceanothus verrucosus) Orcutt’s pincushion (Chaenactis glabriuscula var. orcuttiana) Abrams’ spurge (Chamaesyce abramsiana) Salt marsh bird’s‐beak (Chloropyron maritimum [Cordylanthus maritimus ssp. maritimus]) Orcutt’s spineflower (Chorizanthe orcuttiana) San Miguel savory (Clinopodium chandleri [Satureja chandleri]) Las Animas colubrina (Colubrina californica) Orcutt’s bird’s-beak (Cordylanthus orcuttianus [Dicranostegia orcuttiana]) Small-flowered bird’s beak (Cordylanthus parviflorus) Del Mar Mesa sand aster (Corethrogyne filaginifolia var. linifolia ) California pricklypear (Cylindropuntia californica var. californica [Opuntia parryi var. serpentine]) Pink cholla (Cylindropuntia fosbergii) Arizona cottontop (Digitaria californica var. californica) Cuyamaca Lake downingia (Downingia concolor var. brevior) Short-leaved dudleya (Dudleya brevifolia [Blochmaniae] ssp. brevifolia) Oval-leaved dudleya (Dudleya cymosa ssp. ovatifolia) Sticky dudleya (Dudleya viscida) Palmer’s goldenbush (Ericameria palmeri var. palmeri) Sand-loving wallflower (Erysimum ammophilum) Annual rock-nettle (Eucnide rupestris) Flat-seeded spurge (Euphorbia platysperma [Chamaesyce platysperma]) San Diego barrel cactus (Ferocactus viridescens) Chaparral ash (Fraxinus parryi) 2015 BIO-1-2 Final EIR/EIS Master Special Use Permit and Permit to Construct Power Line Replacement Projects APPENDIX BIO-1 – SUPPLEMENTARY SPECIAL-STATUS PLANTS Borrego bedstraw (Galium angustifolium ssp. borregoense) Fremont’s gentian (Gentiana fremontii) Mission Canyon bluecup (Githopsis diffusa ssp. filicaulis) Curly herissantia (Herissantia crispa) Beach goldenaster (Heterotheca sessiliflora ssp. sessiliflora) Abrams’ alumroot (Heuchera abramsii) Otay Mountain lotus (Hosackia crassifolia var. otayensis) Decumbent goldenbush (Isocoma menziesii var. decumbens) San Diego marsh-elder (Iva hayesiana) Coulter’s goldfields (Lasthenia glabrata ssp. coulteri) Heart-leaved pitcher sage (Lepechinia cardiophylla) Nutall’s lotus (Lotus nuttallianus) Parish’s desert-thorn (Lycium parishii) Brown turbans (Malperia tenuis) Spearleaf (Matelea parvifolia) Hairy stickleaf (Mentzelia hirsutissima) Creamy blazing star (Mentzelia tridentata) Willowy monardella (Monardella viminea) Dehesa nolina (Nolina interrata) Arizona pholistoma (Pholistoma auritum var. arizonicum) Torrey pine (Pinus torreyana) San Bernardino bluegrass (Poa atropurpurea) San Diego mesa mint (Pogogyne abramsii) Otay mesa mint (Pogogyne nudiuscula) Small-leaved rose (Rosa minutifolia) Shevock’s copper moss (Schizymenium [Mielichhoferia] shevockii) Parry’s tetracoccus (Tetracoccus dioicus) Sonoran maiden fern (Thelypteris puberula var. sonorensis) 2015 BIO-1-3 Final EIR/EIS Master Special Use Permit and Permit to Construct Power Line Replacement Projects APPENDIX BIO-1 – SUPPLEMENTARY SPECIAL-STATUS PLANTS Low Potential to Occur Of 118 special-status plant species, the following 36 special-status plant species are considered to have a low potential to occur within the project areas (see Table D.4-3 for special-status, potential to occur, and habitat requirements) and are not discussed further: Pygmy lotus (Acmispon haydonii) Munz’s onion (Allium munzii) Singlewhorl burrobrush (Ambrosia monogyra) San Diego ambrosia (Ambrosia pumila) Thread-leaved brodiaea (Brodiaea filifolia) Plummer’s mariposa lily (Calochortus plummerae) Intermediate mariposa lily (Calochortus weedii var. intermedius) Lewis’ evening-primrose (Camissoniopsis lewisii) Vail Lake ceanothus (Ceanothus ophiochilus) Otay Mountain ceanothus (Ceanothus otayensis) Southern tarplant (Centromadia parryi ssp. australis) Smooth tarplant (Centromadia pungens ssp. laevis) Summer holly (Comarostaphylis diversifolia ssp. diversifolia) Otay tarplant (Deinandra [Hemizonia] conjugens) Mojave tarplant (Deinandra mohavensis) Slender-horned spineflower (Dodecahema leptoceras) Many-stemmed dudleya (Dudleya multicaulis) San Diego button-celery (Eryngium aristulatum var. parishii) Mesa horkelia (Horkelia cuneata var. puberula) Mexican hulsea (Hulsea mexicana) Slender-leaved ipomopsis (Ipomopsis tenuifolia) Gander’s pitcher sage (Lepechinia ganderi) Borrego Valley pepper-grass (Lepidium flavum var. felipense) Intermediate monardella (Monardella hypoleuca ssp. intermedia) 2015 BIO-1-4 Final EIR/EIS Master Special Use Permit and Permit to Construct Power Line Replacement Projects APPENDIX BIO-1 – SUPPLEMENTARY SPECIAL-STATUS PLANTS Jennifer’s monardella (Monardella stoneana) Appressed muhly (Muhlenbergia appressa) Little mousetail (Myosurus minimus ssp. apus) Spreading navarretia (Navarretia fossalis) California beardtongue (Penstemon californicus) Santiago Peak phacelia (Phacelia keckii) White rabbit-tabacco (Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum) Nuttall’s scrub oak (Quercus dumosa) Chaparral ragwort (Senecio aphanactis) Desert spike‐moss (Selaginella eremophila) Purple stemodia (Stemodia durantifolia) Orcutt’s woody-aster (Xylorhiza orcuttii) Moderate to High Potential to Occur (“Low Ranked Special-Status Species”) Of 118 special-status plant species, the following 6 special-status plant species are considered to have a moderate to high potential to occur within the project areas and a “Low Rank”, which include those species with a CRPR 3.0, 4.0, or without a CRPR status, County List C, or only designated as NCCP and/or MSCP (see Table D.4-3 for special-status, potential to occur, and habitat requirements). These species have reduced sensitivity status and impacts to these species from a linear project such as the proposed project, typically would not meet significance thresholds, therefore they are not discussed further: Slender-pod jewel flower (Caulanthus heterophyllus [Caulanthus stenocarpus]) Orange County Turkish rugging (Chorizanthe staticoides ssp. chrysacanthe)1 Panamint liveforever (Dudleya saxosa ssp. aloides [Dudleya alainae]) Sernal barley (Hordeum intercedens) Cuyamaca raspberry (Rubus glaucifolius var. ganderi)2 Chaparral nightshade (Solanum [Tenuilobatum] xanti) 1 Chorizanthe staticoides ssp. chrysacanthe is no longer recognized as a distinct taxa from the common