6. Environmental Impacts

The Final EIR identified a number of potentially significant environmental effects (or impacts) that the project will cause. Some of these effects will be fully avoided through the adoption of feasible mitigation measures. Other effects can be substantially lessened, but not fully avoided, and therefore remain significant and unavoidable. In considering the Final EIR for the project, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors made the following findings for specific resource areas.

The Final EIR found that no significant impacts will occur with respect to:

· Population and Housing

The project will result in significant environmental effects with respect to the following issues or resources that can be reduced to less than significant levels and/or avoided with the implementation of mitigation measures:

· Land Use

· Agricultural Resources

· Open Space

· Aesthetics

· Airports

· Public Facilities and Services

· Transportation and Circulation

· Hydrology and Water Quality

· Geology and Soils

· Cultural Resources

· Hazardous materials/Risk Assessment

· Biological Resources

The project will result in significant environmental effects for the following resources that cannot be fully avoided through the adoption of feasible mitigation measures:

· Short Term Air Quality Emissions

· Construction Related Noise

Each of these significant and unavoidable impacts will be considered below.