Administrative Draft EIR Clause Samples
Administrative Draft EIR. Contractor will prepare an Administrative Draft EIR for the project, in accordance with CEQA requirements. The main purpose of the EIR will be to thoroughly and accurately analyze the environmental impacts of the proposed project. The document will be free of jargon so that the information it contains is accessible to decision-makers and the public. The methodology and criteria used for determining the impacts of the project will be clearly and explicitly described in each section of the EIR, including any assumptions, models, or modeling techniques used in the analysis. The determination of impacts will be based on thresholds of significance developed in accordance with CEQA requirements, the County’s standard environmental practices and requirements, and other recently approved environmental documents. Each significant impact will be numbered, and the corresponding mitigation measures will be correlated. The effectiveness and feasibility of mitigation measures will be discussed, and the level of significance after mitigation will be identified. The Administrative Draft EIR will provide an analysis of relevant environmental topics. The topics expected to be addressed, a description of the analyses to be conducted, and the contents of those sections are discussed below. In addition, the significance of the impacts after implementation of the mitigation measures will be included in the analysis. Impacts considered would include the following: direct, indirect, construction/short-term, operational/long-term, growth-inducing, and cumulative. The Administrative Draft EIR will identify and summarize significant impacts and determine whether there is potential to avoid them. The format of the document will be determined by the Contractor and will include all topics discussed below.
Administrative Draft EIR. Ascent will prepare an electronic version (in Word) of the Administrative Draft EIR, in accordance with CEQA and the State CEQA Guidelines. For those resources that would not be affected by the Specific Plan or were adequately addressed in the General Plan EIR, the EIR will provide the rationale as to why no impact would occur and note that the issue is not discussed further in the EIR. These environmental issue areas are anticipated to include, but are not limited to, the following: ► Agriculture and Forestry Resources ► Geology and Soils ► Hazards and Hazardous Materials ► Hydrology and Water Quality ► Mineral Resources ► Wildfires The EIR will adhere to all CEQA requirements and is anticipated to focus on resource categories for which significant impacts could occur. The EIR will include the following chapters: of the project. Impact conclusions will be based on substantial evidence, and mitigation measures will be recommended for significant or potentially significant impacts. References will be provided as necessary to the supporting technical studies, which will be included as appendices to the EIR. The EIR will focus on the following environmental issues: