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Consider recommendations regarding the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019-2020 Santa Maria Community Development Block Grant Application, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office to apply for grant funding from the City of Santa Maria Community Development Block Grant program for Fiscal Year 2019-2020;
b) Direct staff to return to the Board for consideration of acceptance, should the grant be awarded;
c) Determine that the above action is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(4), because it consists of government funding mechanisms or other government fiscal activities, which do not involve any commitment to any specific project which may result in a potentially significant physical impact on the environment; and
d) Determine that the above actions are exempt from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) pursuant to 40 Code of Federal Regulations section 1508.4, under a categorical exclusion, because these actions do not individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the human environment and which have been found to have no such effect in procedures adopted by a Federal agency in implementation of these regulations.