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Consider recommendations regarding the Ellwood Pipeline, Inc. Line 96 Modification Project and Ordinance/Franchise CEQA Findings, Third District, as follows:
a) Consider the adoption (second reading) of an Urgency Ordinance, to be effective immediately, granting the Public Pipeline Franchise to EPI to facilitate EPI’s Line 96 Modification Project;
b) Pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), find and approve action, as follows:
i) Find that the Ellwood Pipeline Company Line 96 Modification Project Final Environmental Impact Report FEIR 09-EIR-00000-00005 (Ellwood FEIR) was reviewed, considered and certified by the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission on August 3, 2011 and is on file with the State Clearinghouse as file No. 2009111034;
ii) Determine that the issuance of the Public Pipeline Franchise is within the scope of the project for which the Ellwood FEIR was certified; and
iii) After reviewing and considering the Ellwood FEIR that the Board of Supervisors adopts CEQA findings and, pursuant to 14 CCR (CEQA Guideline) 15162, determines that no subsequent EIR or Negative Declaration is required for this project because of the following:
1) No substantial changes are proposed in the project which require major revision of the Ellwood FEIR;
2) No substantial changes have occurred with respect to the circumstances under which the project was undertaken which required major revisions to the Ellwood FEIR; and
3) No new information of substantial importance concerning the project’s significant effects or mitigation measures, which was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time that the Ellwood FEIR was certified in August 2011, has been received that requires a subsequent EIR or Negative Declaration; and
c) Adopt findings that immediate enactment as an Urgency Ordinance is supported by the following:
i) The Project EIR at Section 4.5.7 Biological Resources determined that transport ...
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