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Consider recommendations regarding approval of Amendment No. 2 Engineering Design Services Contract (BC-16-084) with SWT Engineering, Inc. for the Tajiguas Sanitary Landfill Partial Final Closure Project (Phase 2 and 3), County Project No. 129913, Third District, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute Amendment No. 2 to the current Engineering Design Services Contract (BC-16-084) with the consulting firm of SWT Engineering, Inc. (not a local vendor), for the Partial Final Closure Project (Phase 2 and 3) at the Tajiguas Sanitary Landfill in the amount of $179,500.00 for a total contract value of $447,587.00, which includes a $20,000.00 contingency; and
b) Find that pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines Section 15162, no substantial changes are proposed, and no new information of substantial importance has come to light regarding environmental effects of the Tajiguas Sanitary Landfill Partial Final Closure Project (Phase 2 and 3) or of the sufficiency or feasibility of mitigation measures, and therefore the project and the approval of an Engineering Design Services Contract for the project is within the scope of the project covered by the Tajiguas Landfill Expansion Project EIR (01-EIR-05) certified by the Board of Supervisors on August 13, 2002, the Addendum to 01-EIR-05 dated November 8, 2006 and accepted by the Board of Supervisors on December 5, 2006 and the Tajiguas Landfill Reconfiguration and Baron Ranch Restoration Project Subsequent EIR (08-EIR-00000-00007) certified May 5, 2009.