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Sec. 4.5 Sec. 4.6 Sec. 4.7 mental documents shall be the environmental documentation for all Responsible Agencies. Except as prov0ided in Section 4.12(c), such Responsible Agencies shall consider the Lead Agency's EIR or negative declaration prior to acting upon or approving the projects, and they shall certify that their decision-making bodies have reviewed and considered the information contained in them. Lead Agency Designation. If the project is to be carried out by a nongovernmental'person, the Lead Agency shall be the public agency with the greatest responsibility for supervising or approving the project as a whole. (a) The Lead Agency will generally be the City of Pleasanton rather than an agency with a single or limited purpose which is involved by reason of the need to provide a public service or public utility to the project; in such cases, the single or limited purpose agency will, upon request, provide data concerning all aspects of its activities required to furnish service to the project to the agency drafting the EIR, and no separate EIR will be required in regard to such activities. (b) Where the City has prezoned an area, the City will be the appropriate Lead Agency for any subsequent annexa- tion of the area and should prepare the required en- vironmental document at the time of the prezoning. The City shall consult with the local agency formation commission and the EIR shall include the comments of the local agency formation commission. Private Projects. Projects undertaken by a person other than a public agency which are supported in whole or in part through contracts, grants, subsidies, loads, or other forms of assistance from one or more public agencies or which involve the issuance to a person of a lease, permit, license, certificate, or other entitlement to use by one or more public agencies require the preparation of an Environ- mental Impact Report if the project may have a significant effect on the environment and the project involves discre- tionary governmental action unless the project is otherwise exempted herein. The City shall be responsible for pre- paring the Environmental impact Report through its own efforts or by contract. The City may charge and collect a fee from the applicant to recover the costs incurred by it. Obligations of a Lead Agency. (a) Where the City is acting as a Lead Agency it shall meet all obligations for which a Responsible Agency is responsible, including the determination of whether the project will or will not have a significant effect on the environment and shall prepare or cause to be prepared the EIR or Negative Declaration after con-