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City of Pleasanton—Hidden Canyon Residences and Preserve Draft EIR Cultural Resources and Tribal Cultural Resources FirstCarbon Solutions 3.4-31 https://adecinnovations.sharepoint.com/sites/PublicationsSite/Shared Documents/Publications/Client (PN-JN)/2148/21480016/EIR/3 - Draft EIR/21480016 Sec03-04 Cultural-Tribal Cultural Resources.docx considerable contribution on this already less than significant cumulative archaeological resources impact. Human Remains Potential cumulative impacts are limited to the construction phase. The geographic scope for the purpose of evaluating cumulative impacts relative to human remains is the project vicinity. This is because impacts related to human remains tend to be localized because the integrity of any given resource depends on what occurs in the immediate vicinity around that resource, such as disruption of soils, and the immediate vicinity provides the smallest geographic unit within which significant cumulative impacts spanning multiple projects may occur. Therefore, in addition to the project site itself, the area near the project site would be the area most affected by project activities (generally within a 0.5-mile radius). For the purposes of this analysis, the geographic scope is defined as the 0.5-mile NWIC records search radius. As discussed above, the geographic scope for this cumulative setting includes existing industrial, commercial and residential uses. No known burial sites are located within the project site boundaries, however one pre-contact burial site is recorded within the geographic scope (See Table 3.4-1). Nonetheless, past, present and reasonably foreseeable construction activities may have the potential to encounter undiscovered human remains and/or formal cemeteries, these cumulative projects would be required to reduce impacts through compliance with applicable federal and State laws governing human remains and/or formal cemeteries. Additionally, the implementation of standard construction conditions of approval and best management practices, as well as project specific mitigation, if necessary, would ensure undiscovered human remains and/or formal cemeteries are not adversely affected by cumulative project-related construction activities, which would prevent the destruction or degradation of potentially significant cultural resources within the geographic scope. Therefore, cumulative impacts would be less than significant.  Additionally, as the proposed project does not contain any known burial sites and would comply with all existing regulations in the event of an unanticipated discovery, it would not have a cumulatively considerable contribution to the less than significant cumulative impacts. Tribal Cultural Resources Significant impacts to TCRs may range from impacts to a resource meeting the CEQA definition of a significant historic resource, to impacts to resources identified through consultation between a lead agency and Native American Tribe. As such, the scope and range of potential cumulative impacts to TCRs are highly contingent on the nature of the resource and status of consultation. Cumulative impacts related to a project’s potential to cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of a State-listed or eligible TCR are limited to construction impacts. In the absence of any known TCRs that will be impacted by the proposed project, the appropriate geographic scope for assessing potential cumulative impacts to TCRs is the project vicinity. This is because any undiscovered TCRs will likely be archaeological in nature, and the immediate project vicinity provides the smallest geographic unit within which significant cumulative impacts spanning multiple projects may occur. For this analysis, the immediate vicinity is defined as the 0.5-mile NWIC records search radius. There is one cumulative project within the geographic scope.