REFERENCES

The following references were used throughout this Initial Study:

PG&E, 1998 PEA. Proponent's Environmental Assessment: Permit to Construct the North San Jose Capacity Project, May 1998.

Site Visit, July 15, 1998

 

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

PG&E, 1998 PEA. Proponent's Environmental Assessment: Permit to Construct the North San Jose Capacity Project, May 1998.

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

PG&E, 1998 PEA. Proponent's Environmental Assessment: Permit to Construct the North San Jose Capacity Project, May 1998.

 

WATER

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

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.

PG&E, 1998a. Personal communication from Steven Stielstra to Judith Iklé, CPUC, August 25, 1998

PG&E, 1998 PEA. Proponent's Environmental Assessment: Permit to Construct the North San Jose Capacity Project, May 1998.

 

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.

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

PG&E, 1998 PEA. Proponent's Environmental Assessment: Permit to Construct the North San Jose Capacity Project, May 1998.

 

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

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

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

 

PUBLIC SERVICES

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

 

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.

PG&E, 1998 PEA. Proponent's Environmental Assessment: Permit to Construct the North San Jose Capacity Project, May 1998.

Site Visit, July 15, 1998

 

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.

PG&E, 1998b. Personal communication from Steven Stielstra to Judith Iklé, CPUC, August 12, 1998

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