SULFUR SPRINGS REMEDIATION PROJECT

Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration

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Lead Agency:
City of El Paso de Robles

Environmental Consultant:
Padre Associates, Inc.
811 El Capitan Way,
Suite 130
San Luis Obispo, CA

Project Contact:
Meg Williamson
City of El Paso de Robles
1000 Spring Street
Paso Robles, CA
(805) 237-3888

Introduction

This Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration (IS/MND) has been prepared to identify and assess the anticipated environmental impacts for the Parking Lot Sulfur Spring Remediation Project (project). The project would involve repair to pre-disaster conditions the damaged parking lot that serves the Paso Robles City Hall and library, as well as long-term disposal of surfaced spring-water, which resulted from the San Simeon Earthquake of 2003. The project site includes locations at the City Hall parking lot, pipeline alignment along 10th Street/Riverside Drive/11th Street, and the City Water Yard in the City of El Paso de Robles (City), California. The project would be constructed and operated by the City.

This document has been prepared to satisfy the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (Public Resources Code Section 21000 et seq.) and the State CEQA Guidelines (14 California Code of Regulations [CCR] 15000 et seq.). CEQA requires that all state and local government agencies consider the environmental consequences of projects for which they have discretionary authority before they approve or implement such projects.

The Initial Study (IS) is a public document used by the decision-making lead agency to determine whether a project may have a significant effect on the environment. In the case of the project, the City is the Lead Agency and will use the IS to determine whether the project has a significant effect on the environment. If the lead agency finds substantial evidence that any aspect of the project, either alone or in combination with other projects, may have a significant effect on the environment, that agency is required to prepare an Environmental Impact Report (EIR), a supplement to a previously prepared EIR, or a subsequent EIR to analyze the project. If the lead agency finds no substantial evidence that the project or any of its aspects may cause a significant impact on the environment, a Negative Declaration shall be prepared. If, over the course of the analysis, the project is found to have a significant impact on the environment that, with specific mitigation measures, can be reduced to a less than significant level, a Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) shall be prepared.