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Consider recommendations regarding the approval of a Cooperative Agreement for the Pierce's Disease Program, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a Cooperative Agreement with the California Department of Food and Agriculture to support the Glassy-winged Sharpshooter/Pierce's Disease Program for the period of July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2016, in the amount of $347,304.98; and
b) Determine that the proposed action involves government funding mechanisms and/or fiscal activities and is not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15378(b)(4) and direct staff to file a Notice of Exemption.