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1. Project Description and Approach Initial review of the nronosed nroiect changes indicates that additional CEOA analysis is required to confirm that no additional or substantially more severe significant imnacts would result from the project change, as described further below. 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 plan amendment and rezoning for the Johnson Drive site) would likely be the cause of new and/or more severe impacts, should any be identified. ESA will prepare a SEIR including a robust technical analysis of the identified key environmental issues. Based upon the RFP, for the purposes of this proposal ESA assumes that four issues — Aesthetics. Air Quality, Noise, and Transportation —will be fully analyzed in the SEIR, with the remainder of the environmental topics on the CEQA Checklist assumed to be discussed in lesser detail, in a separate section of the document. Mitigation measures from the General Plan EIR and/or GPA EIR will be reviewed for the applicability to the proposed Johnson Drive project. revised scope of work Includes cuff hours m update the SEIR project deswiution and associated technical analivis comnloted to-date with the current nroieordesorimtiunj As set forth in the RFP, ESA will provide the City with €rve-(-5)thirtv -five (35) printed copies of the ADEIR. as well as one unbound copy and an electronic copy. CO 0, Pleasanton Joimson Orin Eoonont Devebpment Zone SR 2