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California Guidelines for Reducing Impacts to Birds and Bats from Wind Energy Development - Staff Draft Report (2nd Edition)

Publication Number:    CEC-700-2007-008-SD

Abstract:
These voluntary guidelines provide information to help reduce impacts to birds and bats from new development or repowering of wind energy projects in California. They include recommendations on preliminary screening of proposed wind energy project sites; prepermitting study design and methods; assessing direct, indirect, and cumulative impacts to birds and bats in accordance with state and federal laws; developing avoidance and minimization measures; establishing appropriate compensatory mitigation; and postconstruction operations monitoring, analysis, and reporting methods.

Keywords: Avian fatality, avian injury, avian mortality, bat fatality, bat injury, bat mortality, bird fatality, bird injury, carcass count, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, rotorswept area, wind energy, wind siting guidelines, wind turbines

Author(s):  Richard Anderson, Susan Sanders, Scott Flint, David Sterner

Commission Division:    Systems Assessment and Facility Siting Division (700)

Office/Program:    Environmental

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Date Report Completed:    April 2007

Date On Line:    04/05/2007

Acrobat PDF File Size: 159 pages, 8,800 kilobytes**

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