(a) If a federal safe harbor agreement has been approved pursuant to applicable provisions of federal law and the federal safe harbor agreement contains species that are endangered, threatened, or are candidate species pursuant to this chapter, no further authorization or approval is necessary under this article for any person authorized by that agreement to take the species identified in and in accordance with the federal Safe Harbor Agreement, if that person and the department follow all of the procedures specified in Section 2080.1, except that the determination of consistency shall be made by the department based only on the issuance criteria contained in this article.
(b) The department may adopt nonregulatory guidelines to clarify how the provisions of this chapter may be used in connection with voluntary local programs for routine and ongoing agricultural activities adopted pursuant to Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 2086) and natural community conservation plans adopted pursuant to Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 2800).