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Acting as the Board of Directors, Flood Control and Water Conservation District:
Consider recommendations regarding California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Section 15164 Addendum to the Mitigated Negative Declaration for the Las Vegas-San Pedro Creeks Capacity Improvement Project, Second District, as follows:
a) Consider Addendum No. 2, pursuant to CEQA Guideline Section 15164, to the Mitigated Negative Declaration No. 11-NGD-00000-00008, for the Las Vegas-San Pedro Creeks Capacity Improvement Project has been completed in compliance with CEQA;
b) After considering the Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) that the Board of Directors of the Santa Barbara County Flood Control and Water Conservation District adopted on October 4, 2011, and the Addendum to that MND that the Board of Directors received and considered on April 10, 2012 and August 19, 2014, determine pursuant to 14 CCR § 15162(a) 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 revisions of the 2011 MND; 2) No substantial changes have occurred with respect to the circumstances under which the project is undertaken which require major revisions of the 2011 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 2011 has been received; and
c) Approve the amended project as described in Addendum No. 2 to MND No. 11-NGD-00000-00008, approved on October 4, 2011.