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Acting as the Board of Directors, Water Agency:
Consider recommendations regarding Cloudseeding Program 2014-2015, as follows:
a) Approve the 2014-2015 cloudseeding program and authorize the Chair to execute the Agreement with North American Weather Consultants (NAWC) (not a local vendor) for cloudseeding for the period of October 14, 2014 through June 30, 2015 unless earlier terminated, in an amount not to exceed $319,850.00;
b) Consider an addendum to the Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) 13NGD-00000-00011 which the Board adopted on October 15, 2013; and
c) After considering the MND and the addendum to the MND, determine pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines Section 15162(a) that no subsequent EIR or Negative Declaration is required for this project because: 1) No substantial changes are proposed in the project which require major revisions of the MND; 2) No substantial changes have occurred with respect to the circumstances under which the project is undertaken which require major revisions of the MND; 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 MND was adopted in has been received.