5900 36TH AVE W SEPA 015 - 034 - SOUNDVIEW BUSINESS CAMPUS - VERITAS Land Use Decision Documents 2025-04-22

• Best management practices will be used to prevent an increase in sedimentation in the vicinity of the project. Cleared areas will be seeded with an approved grass seed mixture. • Earthwork is anticipated to be completed during the dry season. 8.4 PUGET SOUND/STRAIT OF GEORGIA COHO SALMON The proposed action "May Affect, but is Not Likely to Adversely Affect" coho salmon. A may affect determination is warranted based on the following rationale. • There are candidate coho in the watershed, downstream from the proposed development site. A not likely to adversely affect determination for this action is warranted based on the following rationale. • There is an extremely low potential that the proposed development would result in "take" of listed fish species. • The listed fish species described in this report are not present on the subject property. The nearest habitat for fish species is 0.015 miles from the subject property and there is no accessibility to the subject property. • There are no streams on -site, and no native trees or shrubs on the development site provide shading or LWD for bull trout or anadromous fish habitat. Thermal protection and LWD recruitment will not be affected. • Best management practices will be used to prevent an increase in sedimentation in the vicinity of the project. Cleared areas will be seeded with an approved grass seed mixture. • Earthwork is anticipated to be completed during the dry season. 8.5 DESIGNATED CRITICAL HABITAT FOR BULL TROUT, STEELHEAD, AND CHINOOK SALMON NMFS has determined that the habitats of Puget Sound bull trout, Puget Sound steelhead, and Puget Sound Chinook be considered Designated Critical Habitat. Japanese Gulch Creek and Edgewater Creek in the project area are not mapped as critical habitat for Puget Sound bull trout, Puget Sound steelhead, or Chinook salmon (NMFS 2005). As a result, this project will have no impact on Puget Sound bull trout, Puget Sound steelhead, or Puget Sound Chinook Designated Critical Habitat. This project will not result in the destruction or adverse ' modification of critical bull trout, steelhead, or Chinook critical habitat. Therefore, this project has a No Effect determination on Puget Sound bull trout, Puget Sound steelhead, and Puget Sound Chinook Designated Critical Habitat. Biological Evaluation 29 WRI #14109 Soundview Business Campus Revision #2: October 2, 2015