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harbor provisions to non-waterway upland areas on the draft inventory. At that time, staff reported back to the Council that application of the safe harbor inventory criteria for wildlife habitat sites to the areas outside waterway corridors in the South Hills would effectively remove those areas from further consideration for protection, as those areas did not meet the safe harbor criteria. The "Safe Harbor" provisions under Goal 5 provide a different methodology for local governments to meet the Goal 5 requirements with less staff work and process than is required in the "standard" Goal 5 process. The Safe Harbor provisions for the Goal 5 inventory process set out specific criteria for determining which sites will be considered significant, and rely on resources that are already mapped by state or federal resource agencies or other qualified professionals. The safe harbor provisions rely on existing inventory mapping and data in order to reduce the burden on local governments for conducting Goal 5 inventories. The "standard" inventory process, on the other hand, allows the local jurisdiction to create and adopt their own criteria for significance, and requires more detailed analysis. The sites that are considered "significant" under Goal 5 are those that will be considered for protection measures. Safe Harbor Inventory Criteria for wildlife habitat (OAR 660-023-0110(4) are as follows: "(4) Local governments may determine wildlife habitat significance under OAR 660-023-0040 or apply the safe harbor criteria in this section. Under the safe harbor, local governments may determine that "wildlife" does not include fish, and that significant wildlife habitat is only those sites where one or more of the following conditions exist: (a) The habitat has been documented to perform a life support function for a wildlife species listed by the federal government as a threatened or endangered species or by the state of Oregon as a threatened, endangered, or sensitive species; (b) The habitat has documented occurrences of more than incidental use by a species described in subsection (a) of this section; (emphasis added) (c) The habitat has been documented as a sensitive bird nesting, roosting, or watering resource site for osprey or great blue herons pursuant to ORS 527.710 (Oregon Forest Practices Act) and OAR 629-024-0700 (Forest Practices Rules); (d) The habitat has been documented to be essential to achieving policies or population objectives specified in a wildlife species management plan adopted by the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission pursuant to ORS Chapter 496; or (e) The area is identified and mapped by ODFW as habitat for a wildlife species of concern and/or as a habitat of concern (e.g., big game winter range and migration corridors, golden eagle and prairie falcon nest sites, or pigeon springs)." The term "documented" as applied in this subsection is defined at OAR 660-023-0110(1)(a): "Documented" means that an area is shown on a map published or issued by a state or federal agency or by a professional with demonstrated expertise in habitat identification. Criterion (4)(b) is the focus of the issue raised before the Council and which the Council motion addresses. In order for an area of land to meet the requirements of OAR 660-023-0110(4)(b), one of two forms of documentation was needed, either: (1) the area was shown on a map of habitat with "documented occurrences of more than incidental use" by pileated woodpeckers issued by a state or federal agency, or (2) the area was shown on a map of habitat with "documented occurrences of more than incidental use" by pileated woodpecker issued by a professional with demonstrated expertise in