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Vantage to Pomona Heights Chapter 4 230 kV Transmission Line Project FEIS Environmental Consequences PAGE 4-128 • Affects applicable comprehensive and regional plans and/or approved, adopted, or officially stated policies, goals, or operations of communities or governmental agencies. The impacts of the proposed Project on land jurisdictions primarily involve land policies, land management plans, and permitting requirements of federal, state, and local agencies. The land jurisdictions mapped in the inventory were used to identify the potentially affected land management agencies and to quantify the land area potentially affected by the Action Alternatives and their route segments (see Appendix A - Jurisdiction, Recreation and Special Management Areas). The crossing or paralleling of existing utilities is a matter of technical coordination and realty agreements with the affected utilities. Impacts were not assessed for these situations. Table 4.4-1 Land Use Resources Sensitivity Classification LAND USE SENSITIVITY Agricultural Land (Dryland, Irrigated, Feedlots, etc.) High Residential High Recreation and/or Conservation-Existing High Recreation and/or Conservation-Planned (Wanapum Natural Area Preserve, Yakima River Basin Integrated Plan [Integrated Plan] potential conservation easement/property purchase parcels) Moderate Military (Joint Base Lewis-McChord Yakima Training Center; JBLM YTC) Moderate Important Farmland – Prime Farmland (non-Agriculture) Moderate Important Farmland – Unique Farmland (non-Agriculture) Moderate Important Farmland – Farmland of Statewide Importance (non-Agriculture) Moderate Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Land (Known Land and Sections containing CRP land) Moderate Rangeland (U.S. Bureau of Land Management [BLM], State Trust Lease Lands [DNR], Bureau of Reclamation) Low Undeveloped/Grazing/Vacant Low 4.4.2 Impact Levels Potential impacts to land use resources were assessed along the assumed centerlines of the Action Alternatives including access roads. The assumed centerline of the Action Alternative route segments for land use impact assessment is 125 feet wide (i.e., the proposed route segment ROW corridor width). High - Impacts would be considered high where the proposed Project would: • Cause direct long-term impacts and conflict with high sensitivity land uses; • Physically conflict with the use of residences or agricultural operations such as the displacement of occupied residences or conflicts with center pivot irrigation structures or agricultural buildings in the long-term; • Create areas of non-habitable land in the long-term where residential uses already exist or are permitted; • Potentially affect military training maneuvers and operations in the long-term; and/or • Prevent the long-term use of the land according to existing land management plans. Moderate - Impacts would be considered moderate where the proposed Project would: • Adversely affect properties by eliminating or limiting the potential for development to occur in the long-term around or underneath the transmission line and/or transmission line structures;