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i 1 1 Sec. 4 . 4 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 1 is responsible , eluding the determination of, whether the project will or will not have a signficanteff'ect on the environment and shall prepare or cause to be i prepared the EIR or Negative Declaration after con- sultation with all other public agencies which must approve the project in question or a part of the i project . To insure that the EIR or Negative Declara- tion reflects the concerns of all the public agencies involved, the City shall consult with public agencies which will issue approvals for the project at an iearly stage in development of the EIR. (b) A Lead Agency shall include in its Notice of Completion ia statement to the effect that it is a Lead Agency . ( c) The EIR prepared by the Lead Agency shall be consid- ered i by every public agency prior to its approval or disapproval of the project . Sec . 4 .5 Subsequent EIR. Where an EIR has been prepared, no addition- , al EIR need be prepared unless : • (a) Substantial changes are proposed in the project which will require major revisions of the EIR, due to the involvement of new environmental impacts not consid- ered in the original EIR; i (b ) There are substantial changes with respect to the circumstances under which the project is to be under- taken, such as a change in the proposed location of i the project , which will require major revisions in the EIR due to the involvement of new environmental impacts not covered in the original EIR. Sec . 4 .6 Use of a Single EIR. The City may employ a single EIR to describe more than one project , if such projects are essen- tially the same in terms of environmental impact . Further, i it may use an earlier EIR prepared in connection with an earlier project to apply to a later project , if the circum- stances of the projects are essentially the same . It may i elect to write EIR' s in advance for entire programs or regulations , in order to be prepared for project applications to come . Whenever it chooses to utilize any of these alter- s natives , however, it must find that the environmental effects of the projects are similar enough to warrant the same treatment in an EIR and that the EIR will adequately cover the impacts of any single project . If these tests are not i met , it should amend the EIR it prepares to a program to apply it to an individual project with unusual characteristics , -8-