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Consider recommendations regarding the Communications Sublease Agreement Between the County of Santa Barbara and Exxon Mobil Corporation (Real Property File No. 002948), Third District, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Communications Sublease Agreement (Agreement) between the County of Santa Barbara (County) and Exxon Mobil Corporation, a New Jersey Corporation (Operator) to install, operate, repair, maintain and upgrade a new communication facility on an oil platform located in the Santa Barbara Channel (Platform Heritage), approximately 25 miles west of the City of Santa Barbara, rent free, for a total of twenty-five years;
b) Approve and authorize the Director of General Services to administer and enforce the Agreement for the County, including the right described in Section 3 of the Agreement to declare an emergency for the purposes of gaining immediate access to Platform Heritage; and
c) Determine that the recommended actions involve the leasing of an existing private structure involving negligible expansion of use beyond that which presently exists, that the proposed action is therefore exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15301, Existing Facilities, and approve and direct staff to file and post a Notice of Exemption on that basis.