File #: 22-00461    Version: 1
Type: Departmental Agenda Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 5/13/2022 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 5/24/2022 Final action: 5/24/2022
Title: HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding further analysis related to the 2021 Grand Jury Report: Idle Oil Wells in Santa Barbara County, Recommendations 1 through 4, as follows: (EST. TIME: 1 HR.) a) Receive and file a presentation of further analysis related to the 2021 Grand Jury report entitled "Idle Oil Wells in Santa Barbara County," Recommendations 1 through 4; b) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign a letter and forward the letter and responses to the Presiding Judge of Santa Barbara County Superior Court updating the Grand Jury on the further analysis; and c) Determine pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines 15378(b)(5) that the above action is not a project subject to CEQA review, because it is a government administrative activity that does not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment. COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER'S RECOMMENDATION: APPROVE
Sponsors: COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICE, PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Attachment A - BOS Response GJ Report - Idle Oil Wells Revised - 5.24, 3. Attachment B - BOS Response GJ Report - 3.8.22, 4. Attachment C - Grand Jury Report - Idle Oil Wells in Santa Barbara County, 5. Public Comment - Group 1, 6. Public Comment - Sierra Club, 7. Public Comment - Group 2, 8. Public Comment - The Climate Reality Project, 9. Public Comment - Climate First - Replacing Oil and Gas, 10. Public Comment - Group 3, 11. Public Comment - Heal the Ocean, 12. Public Comment - SBCAN, 13. Public Comment - Environmental Defense Center, 14. Public Comment - Group 4, 15. Public Comment - FracTracker Alliance, 16. Public Comment - Rigby, 17. Presentation, 18. Presentation - Revised 5-23-2022, 19. Public Comment Speakers, 20. Executed Letter, 21. Minute Order
Related files: 22-00346

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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding further analysis related to the 2021 Grand Jury Report: Idle Oil Wells in Santa Barbara County, Recommendations 1 through 4, as follows: (EST. TIME: 1 HR.)

 

a) Receive and file a presentation of further analysis related to the 2021 Grand Jury report entitled “Idle Oil Wells in Santa Barbara County,” Recommendations 1 through 4;

 

b) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign a letter and forward the letter and responses to the Presiding Judge of Santa Barbara County Superior Court updating the Grand Jury on the further analysis; and

 

c) Determine pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines 15378(b)(5) that the above action is not a project subject to CEQA review, because it is a government administrative activity that does not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment.

 

COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: APPROVE