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Consider recommendations regarding authorization of an Agreement for Services with Marine Research Specialists to Complete an Environmental Impact Report for the Pacific Coast Energy Company Orcutt Hill Resource Enhancement Plan Project, Fourth District, as follows: (4/5 Vote Required)
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement for Services with Marine Research Specialists to complete an Environmental Impact Report for the Orcutt Hill Resource Enhancement Plan project for the period of June 3, 2014 through June 30, 2015 in an amount not to exceed $205,534.00, which includes a base cost of $186,849.00 as proposed by the contractor and a 10 percent contingency cost of $18,685.00;
b) Approve a Budget Revision increasing Account 7510, Contractual Services, offset by an increase to revenue Account 5101, Environmental Resource Service, in Planning and Development in the amount of $205,534.00; and
c) Determine that this action is exempt from California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15378(b)(5), which are organizational or administrative activities of governments that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment.