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Finally, I just want to touch on a few of the endangered species that we discuss in the report. There is a colony of Least Terns at the Alameda Naval Air Station just to the north of the East Bay Shoals borrow site. In the report, we look at overlap between turbidity plumes and the foraging range of the birds. Since they are visual foragers, there is a potential effect on their foraging success. We see very little overlap in the plumes with the foraging range of those Terns there. Clapper Rail -- we did Clapper Rail surveys and there are Clapper Rail in the San Bruno Marsh just to the north of the Airport. There is no construction activity occurring in that marsh. There would be no loss of that marsh habitat. And, again, the long term habitat changes suggest that there would be no substantial effect there. Steelhead and Salmon, we more or less discussed under fish. What we are looking at there are potential delays in migration as these fish move to and from the South Bay streams. We have a lot more detail in the report, so I am hoping you will take a look at that, and with that I will turn it over to Bill Fehring.