The following two references were used throughout this Initial Study:

PG&E, 1997. Proponent Environmental Assessment: Permit to Construct the FMC Substation, November 17.

PG&E, 1998. Response to Deficiency Report for FMC Substation, March 9.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

California Joint Utility Traffic Control Committee, 1996. Work Area Protection and Traffic Control Manual, April.

CalTrain, 1994. Standards Manual.

LAND USE AND PLANNING

City of San Jose, 1994. San Jose 2020 General Plan, Department of City Planning and Building, City of San Jose California, Adopted August 16.

City of San Jose, 1991. Title 20 Zoning Ordinance, City of San Jose, California, December 6.

GEOLOGIC PROBLEMS

Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), 1995. On Shaky Ground.

Dames and Moore, 1997. Final Report, Geotechnical Investigation, Combustion Turbine Plant Project, San Jose, California, July 11.

Helley, E.J., and K.R. LaJoie, 1979. Flatland deposits of the San Francisco Bay Region, California - their geology and engineering properties, and their importance to comprehensive planning. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 943.

WATER

ABAG, 1980. Dam Failure Inundation Areas, San Francisco Bay Region, March.

Dames and Moore, 1997. Final Report, Geotechnical Investigation, Combustion Turbine Plant Project, San Jose, California, July 11.

Helley, E.J., and K.R. LaJoie, 1979. Flatland deposits of the San Francisco Bay Region, California - their geology and engineering properties, and their importance to comprehensive planning. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 943.

PG&E, 1998. DCS Guideline D-G0052, January.

AIR QUALITY

Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD), 1996. BAAQMD CEQA GUIDELINES, Assessing the Impacts of Project and Plans, April.

TRANSPORTATION/CIRCULATION

City of San Jose, 1994. San Jose 2020 General Plan, Department of City Planning and Building, City of San Jose California, Adopted August 16.

Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board, 1994. CalTrain Standards Manual.

California Joint Utility Traffic Control Committee, April 1996, Work Area Protection and Traffic Control Manual.

BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES

California Natural Diversity Data Base (CNDDB), 1997. Special Status Species / Community Location Full Report for USGS 7.5-minute quadrangles in the project area, California Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento, California.

Environmental Science Associates (ESA), 1997. Site visit, December 19.

Federal Register, Endangered and Threatened Species, 1997. Listing of Several Evolutionary Significant Units (ESUs) of West Coast Steelhead, Vol. 62, No. 159, August 18.

Hickman, J.C. (ed.), 1993. The Jepson manual of higher plants of California, University of California Press, Berkeley, California.

Holland, R.F., 1986. Preliminary Descriptions of the Terrestrial Natural Communities of California, Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento, California.

Sawyer, J.O. and T. Keeler-Wolf, 1995. A Manual of California Vegetation. California Native Plant Society, Sacramento, California, 471 pp.

Skinner and Pavlik (eds.), 1994. California Native Plant Society’s Inventory of Rare and Endangered Vascular Plants of California, California Native Plant Society.

Stebbins, R.C., 1985. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 236 pp.

Zeiner, D.C., W.F. Laudenslayer, Jr., and K.E. Mayer, 1988. California’s Wildlife, Vol. I-III, California Department of Fish and Game.

HAZARDS

Parsons Engineering Science, 1997. Background Report on Environmental Contamination — FMC Plant, San Jose, California. (Contained as Appendix B of PG&E, 1997.)

U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), 1996. Possible Health Effects of Exposure to Residential Electric and Magnetic Fields, National Academy Press, Washington D.C.

NOISE

Geier & Geier, 1997. Noise Impact Assessment of the FMC Substation, October.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1971. Noise from Construction Equipment and Operations, Building Equipment, and Home Appliances, December.

PUBLIC SERVICE

Masuoka, Robert, 1997. Senior Associate Planner, personal communication, April 25.

UTILITIES AND SERVICE SYSTEMS

Masuoka, Robert, 1997. Senior Associate Planner, personal communication, April 25.

AESTHETICS

City of San Jose, 1994. San Jose 2020 General Plan, Department of City Planning and Building, City of San Jose California, Adopted August 16.

RECREATION

Brown, Brad, 1998. City of San Jose Parks and Planning Department, personal communication, April 9.

MANDATORY FINDING OF SIGNIFICANCE

City of San Jose, 1994. San Jose 2020 General Plan, Department of City Planning and Building, City of San Jose California, Adopted August 16.

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