File #: 24-00596    Version: 1
Type: Administrative Item Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 6/6/2024 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 6/18/2024 Final action: 6/18/2024
Title: Consider recommendations regarding Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB), SpaceX, and County Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to support Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) waiver allowing visitors to remain at Jalama Beach County Park during launches, as follows: a) Approve, ratify and authorize the County Executive officer to execute the MOU as part of an application for waiver along with VSFB, SpaceX and County application for a waiver from the FAA allowing visitors to remain at Jalama Beach County Park during launches; and b) Determine that the above recommended actions are exempt from review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(5), because of the general rule that CEQA applies only to projects which have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment. An MOU is not a project under CEQA.
Sponsors: COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Attachment A MOU between VSFB, Space X and County, 3. Attachment B Jalama Beach Emergency Response Plan, 4. Minute Order

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Consider recommendations regarding Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB), SpaceX, and County Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to support Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) waiver allowing visitors to remain at Jalama Beach County Park during launches, as follows:

 

a) Approve, ratify and authorize the County Executive officer to execute the MOU as part of an application for waiver along with VSFB, SpaceX and County application for a waiver from the FAA allowing visitors to remain at Jalama Beach County Park during launches; and

 

b) Determine that the above recommended actions are exempt from review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(5), because of the general rule that CEQA applies only to projects which have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment. An MOU is not a project under CEQA.