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Consider recommendations regarding an application for the California Department of Conservation Local and Regional Planning Grant Program, as follows:
a) Authorize the Director of Community Services Department, or designee, to submit a grant application to the California Department of Conservation for the Local and Regional Planning Grant Program for the preparation of a Natural and Working Lands component to the Energy and Climate Action Plan Update;
b) Adopt a Resolution of Support that authorizes the Director of the Community Services Department, or designee, to execute and submit all required grant documents including, but not limited to the application, payment requests, and reports, if the project is awarded grant funding;
c) Authorize the Director of Community Services Department, or designee, to execute and submit a Grant Agreement in a form substantially similar to the sample grant agreement and upon review and concurrence of County Counsel, Auditor-Controller, and Risk Manager or their designee if the grant is awarded; and
d) Determine that the submission of the grant application and Resolution is not the approval of a project that is subject to environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(4), finding that the action is a creation 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 impact on the environment.