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Consider recommendations regarding the Statement of Final Quantities Santa Monica Debris Basin Operational Improvements Project and Operation and Maintenance Plan for the Carpinteria Valley Watershed Project, First District, as follows:
Acting as the Board of Directors, Flood Control and Water Conservation District:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Statement of Final Quantities for work performed for the Santa Monica Debris Basin Operational Improvements Project (Project No. SC8370) by the contractor Lash Construction, Inc. (a local vendor) in the amount of $5,786,796.90;
b) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign the Carpinteria Valley Watershed Project Operation and Maintenance Plan;
c) Determine that the above action (a) is not a project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15378(b)(5) of the CEQA Guidelines. The action (a) is organizational and administrative activity related to the Santa Monica Debris Basin Operational Improvements Project. The Santa Monica Debris Basin Operational Improvements Project was determined by the Board to be exempt from CEQA pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15301(d), consisting of repairs, maintenance, and minor alterations of existing public facilities, involving negligible or no expansion of use. A Notice of Exemption was prepared December 17, 2020 and filed with the Clerk of the Board on January 4, 2021; and
d) Determine that the Carpinteria Valley Watershed Project Operation and Maintenance Plan (recommendation b) is within the scope of the activities addressed in the Program Environmental Impact Report for the Flood Control District's Updated Routine Maintenance Program (01-EIR-01) and the 2018 Subsequent Environmental Impact Report for the Updated Carpinteria Salt Marsh Enhancement Plan (Sch 2003021016); no substantial changes in relation to environmental impacts are proposed and there is no new information regarding new significant impacts or feasible mit...
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