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1.5: CAMC Land is currently owned by individual private property owners, <br />2 <br />F-11 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />17 <br />19 <br />20 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />26 <br />27 <br />28 <br />each of whom desires to develop its portion of the CAMC Land; and <br />1-6: The CAMC is currently undeveloped and not being utilized for <br />commercial purposes, although significant portions thereof were actively farmed as <br />recently as 1992 and other portions thereof have been utilized as an illegal dumping site <br />up until and including the present time; and <br />1.7: Biological surveys taken on portions of the CAMC Lands have determined <br />that portions thereof are occupied by the DSF; and <br />1.8: The conservation, protection, restoration and enhancement of CAMC <br />Lands would contribute substantially to the survival and recovery of the DSF; and <br />1.9: The Service further believes that if the balance of the CAMC Lands <br />(approximately 160 acres of the total 240 acres contained with the CAMC) can be <br />conserved, protected, restored and enhanced, the Visy Project may also be located within <br />the CAMC without a significant adverse impact upon the DSF; and <br />1.10: Loss of the Visy Project would likely have a significant adverse economic <br />and financial impact upon the residents of Colton and the surrounding areas of Riverside <br />and San Bernardino Counties; and <br />1.11: Loss of more that approximately 80 acres of the 240 acres of CAMC <br />Lands would likely have a significant adverse impact on the remaining habitat of the <br />DSF; and <br />1.12: Visy is unwillin I g to consider the City and the CAMC as the site of the <br />Visy Project unless it has received reasonable assurances from the Service that it may <br />MOU - Fish & Wildlife Service and the City of Colton, California <br />Page 2 <br />