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1.Project Description and Approach Project Approach Based on our review of the Request for Proposals,we have put together a scope of work that we believe responds to the City's objectives. This scope details the tasks that ESA proposes to complete and deliver a Supplemental EIR Environmental Impact Report(SEIR), which would focus in on three key environmental issue areas, and would be tiered from the 2009 General Plan EIR and the 2011 GPA EIR. The City,as Lead Agency, may prepare a supplement to an EIR if only minor additions or changes would be necessary to make the previous EIR adequately apply to the project in the changed situation. The SEIR need only present the information necessary to make the previous EIR adequate for the project as revised. Thus,for purposes of the current SEIR,the project will consist of further amendments to the Pleasanton General Plan, previous amendments to which were analyzed in the GPA EIR. The SEIR will be given the same kind of notice and public review as is given to a Draft EIR(CEQA Guidelines Section 15087),and may be circulated by itself without re-circulating the previous Draft or Final EIR. However,when the City decides whether to approve the proposed project,the decision-making body shall consider the previous EIR as revised by the SEIR.A finding under Section 15091 shall be made for each significant effect shown in the previous EIR as revised. Task 1. Project Initiation and Site Visit In addition to meeting with City staff for a project kick-off meeting, ESA will review the Administrative Draft General Plan Amendment and Zoning Amendment,as provided by the City, and will request data vital to the project in electronic format, including but not limited to, any updated information concerning ongoing investigation and remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater at the former Clorox campus. ESA will begin the environmental and regulatory setting portions of the SEIR,and will inform the City of any environmental constraints that arise during that work that could help to shape the proposed project(i.e.,make it a self-mitigating project). ESA will coordinate a visit for key personnel to the project site and surrounding environs during which time ESA will photograph the site and the surrounding area to document existing conditions. Task 2. Notice of Preparation (NOP) Although an NOP is not required for a Supplemental EIR, should the City desire to issue one, ESA will prepare a NOP for review and revision by City staff. The NOP will conform to CEQA Guidelines Sections 15082 and 15375, which require that at a minimum, a NOP include a project description,a location map, and a summary of the potential environmental effects of the project. ESA will file the NOP with the State Clearinghouse,and provide three hard copies to the City and digital copies. Comments received on the NOP will be taken into consideration in determining which topics to analyze in the SEIR. Task 3. Administrative Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (SEIR) The analysis in the SEIR will evaluate the effects of the project compared to an existing baseline(to be established, generally, at the time a NOP is issued for the SEIR). Because this document will supplement the previously prepared,the analysis will evaluate whether implementation of the Johnson Drive Economic Development Zone would result in any new or substantially more severe impacts than those identified in the prior General Plan and GPA EIRs,whether due to changes in the project,changes in circumstances,or the availability of new information. Because the previous EIRs—particularly,the GPA EIR—are relatively recent, we anticipate that changes to the project(i.e., implementation of the general 1-2 City of Pleasanton Johnson Dnve Economic Development Zone EIR