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Carlsbad Desalination Project Water CEQA Compliance

San Diego County Water Authority Special Board of Directors’ Meeting

November 15, 2012

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CEQA Applicability

• Involves discretionary action

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• Involves a “project” – Activity that may cause a direct physical change or a

reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment, and is

• Directly undertaken by public agency; or

• Supported by public agency contracts, grants, loans, etc.; or

• Public agency issuance of lease, permit, or other entitlement

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Regional Location

Carlsbad FEIR & Addendum

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Proposed Distribution System Changes

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Macario Canyon Realignment

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Aqueduct Connection Point

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Pipeline 3 Reline

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Twin Oaks Modifications

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Pipeline 4 Vent Replacement

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Resources Analyzed

• Aesthetics • Air Quality • Biological Resources • Cultural Resources • Geology/Soils • Hazards/Hazardous

Materials • Hydrology/Water

Quality

• Land Use/Planning • Noise/Vibration • Transportation/Traffic • Public Utilities/Service

Systems • Cumulative Impacts • Growth-Inducing

Impacts

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Analysis Conclusions • Proposed changes:

– do not result in substantial project changes involving new significant or a substantial increase in severity of previously identified significant effects

– do not reflect a substantial change in the circumstances under which the project is undertaken that would result in new significant or more severe environmental effects than previously identified

– do not provide new information of substantial importance which was not known at the time of the prior FEIR regarding new or substantially more severe significant effects, previously infeasible mitigation measures that are now feasible but are not adopted, or different mitigation measures from those analyzed in previous EIR that would reduce impacts but are not adopted

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CEQA Compliance

• SDCWA is Responsible Agency and will use FEIR/Addendum prepared by Carlsbad

• Evaluation of proposed distribution system changes do not reach the threshold for preparation of a SEIR, therefore an Addendum to Carlsbad FEIR is appropriate document

• A Second Addendum to Carlsbad FEIR has been prepared

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Project Related Documents • 2003 Regional Water Facilities Master Plan PFEIR • 2005 Twin Oaks Valley Water Treatment Plant

FEIR – 2005 Addendum

• 2006 Precise Development Plan and Desalination Plant Project FEIR (Carlsbad FEIR) – 2009 Addendum

• 2010 Urban Water Management Plan • 2010 Subregional NCCP/HCP FEIR/FEIS • 2012 Carlsbad FEIR Addendum 2

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Future CEQA Actions

• Consider the following in determining whether or how to proceed with project: – 2006 Carlsbad FEIR, 2009 Carlsbad Addendum,

and 2010 Subregional NCCP/HCP FEIR/FEIS

• Consider and approve: – 2012 Carlsbad FEIR Second Addendum

– Mitigation Monitoring Reporting Program

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Links to Documents

• http:/sdcwa.org/uwmp – 2010 Urban Water Management Plan

• http:/sdcwa.org/environmental-impact-reports-and-mitigated-negative-declarations – 2006 Carlsbad FEIR, 2009 Addendum, & Permits

– 2003 Regional Water Facilities Master Plan FEIR

– 2005 Twin Oaks Valley Water Treatment Plant FEIR & Addendum

– 2010 Subregional NCCP/HCP FEIR/FEIS

– 2012 Carlsbad FEIR Second Addendum (future)