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Consider recommendations regarding Debris Basin Restoration Projects - Thomas Fire 1-9 Debris Flow Incident Statement of Final Quantities, 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 and materials supplied for the Debris Basin Restoration Projects - Thomas Fire 1-9 Debris Flow Incident by the contractor Lash Construction, Inc. (a local vendor), in the amount of $756,324.88; and
b) Determine for the purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) that:
i) These actions are within the scope of the Final Program Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) for the Updated Routine Maintenance Program [State Clearinghouse No. 2001031043] and the Debris Basin Maintenance and Removal Plan, which both adequately describes this activity for the purposes of California Environmental Quality Act; and
ii) Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines sections 15168(c)(2) and 15162(a), after considering the PEIR certified by the Board of Directors in November 2001, and the Debris Basin Maintenance and Removal Plan, which is a set of Addenda tiered off of the PEIR and approved by the Board of Directors on June 6, 2017, that no subsequent EIR or Negative Declaration is required because: i) no substantial changes are proposed which require major revisions of the PEIR; ii) no substantial changes have occurred with respect to the circumstances under which the project is undertaken which require major revisions of the PEIR; and iii) no new information of substantial importance concerning the project’s significant effects or mitigation measures, which was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time that the PEIR was certified, has been received.