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Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan Natural Community Conservation Plan The Natural Community Conservation Plan (NCCP) program, administered by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) uses a broad-based ecosystem approach to plan for the conservation of declining species, natural communities, and supporting ecological processes while allowing compatible and appropriate economic activity. In the Desert Renewable Conservation Plan (DRECP) area, this includes renewable energy and transmission development. The NCCP is intended to: •Provide for the long-term conservation and management of 37 covered species within the plan area, and preserve and enhance natural communities and ecosystems in which those species are found, by creating a reserve system that ensures conservation of the target species and communities. •In coordination with the overall DRECP conservation strategy, provide for landscape-level connectivity and retention of ecological processes that are fundamental to a healthy desert ecosystem. •Create a framework and approach for permitting renewable energy projects under the California Endangered Species Act in an efficient and predictable manner. The NCCP will encompass the entire DRECP plan area, and includes: • Development Focus Areas – The NCCP will allow CDFW to issue take authorizations for solar, wind and geothermal development projects and transmission projects sited within development focus areas. Such projects will benefit from a more efficient and predictable permitting process with clear avoidance and minimization requirements and simplified mitigation measures. • NCCP Conceptual Plan-wide Reserve Design – Identifies priority areas from which the DRECP NCCP reserve design will be created in the form of long-term management of habitat reserves for the conservation of the 37 proposed covered species. • DRECP NCCP Reserve Design – Identifies specific areas as reflected by the biological goals and objectives for the conservation and management of the proposed covered species. The reserve design will be created to provide both compensation for impacts from renewable energy and transmission projects within the DRECP plan area and to support the overall Conservation Strategy. For more information about the DRECP, visit www.drecp.org Natural Community Conservation Plan 0 DRECP Plan-wide Reserve Design Envelope NCCP Categories DRECP NCCP Reserve Design DRECP NCCP Reserve Design 6 NCCP Conceptual Plan-wide Reserve Design 266 Utah Legislatively and Legally Protected Areas Military Expansion Mitigation Lands BLM LUPA Conservation Designations Inside the NCCP Conceptual Plan-wide Reserve Design Biological Conservation Priority Areas on Non-BLM Lands BLM Conservation Designations Outside the NCCP Conceptual Plan-wide Reserve Design BLM LUPA Conservation Designations Biological Conservation Planning Areas Biological Conservation Planning Areas on Non-BLM Lands Nevada Independence Renewable Energy Development Development Focus Areas Ow Study Area Lands ens Special Analysis Areas 136 Future Assessment Areas Val 190 ley DRECP Variance Lands Other Lands Impervious and Urban Built-up Land Military Open OHV Areas - Imperial Sand Dunes Open OHV Areas Johnson Valley OHV Shared Use Area Tribal Lands Solar Energy Zones 127 Proposed Feinstein Bill DRECP Plan Area Boundary 178 202 Tehachapi Te ha c p ha M i ou nt ai ns Ce ntra l Mojav e California City 395 Arizona 58 Barstow Needles West M ojave 40 Lancaster Adelanto 14 Victorville Luc 138 2 405 605 57 110 710 91 213 90 22 Big Bear Lake 173 39 134 27 142 66 330 210 Va l l ey 247 95 Twentynine Palms 38 60 71 Palm Springs 243 215 55 erne 18 241 73 177 Palm Desert Indio 15 Coachella 10 74 371 Ch e 86 Mo Va ll 98 25 Miles ey Imperial 94 ta in s Brawley al 67 El Centro 75 un Calipatria ri 56 5 12.5 at pe 78 O c e a n 0 ol Im P a c i f i c Blythe oc 111 79 76 Ea st Riverside 115 Holtville 8 Calexico ME X IC O Copyright:' 2014 Esri, Sources: Esri, USGS, NOAA Sources: ESRI (2014); CEC (2013); BLM (2013); CDFW (2013); USFWS (2013) FIGURE II.3-7 II.3-1 Preferred Alternative - Natural Community Conservation Plan August 2014 Draft DRECP and EIR/EIS For more information about the DRECP, visit www.drecp.org