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November 8, 2024 Page 4 7357-013acp printed on recycled paper I. STATEMENT OF INTEREST East Bay Residents is an unincorporated association of individuals and labor organizations that may be adversely affected by the potential public and worker health and safety hazards and environmental and public service impacts of the Project. The association includes International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 595, UA Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 342, Sheet Metal Workers Local 104, Sprinkler Fitters Local 483, their members and families, and other individuals that live and/or work in Alameda County. Individual members of East Bay Residents and its affiliated labor organizations who live, work, recreate and raise their families in Alameda County. They would be directly affected by the Project’s environmental and health and safety impacts. Individual members may also work on the Project itself. Accordingly, they will be first in line to be exposed to any health and safety hazards that exist onsite. East Bay Residents has an interest in enforcing environmental laws that encourage sustainable development and ensure a safe working environment for its members. Environmentally detrimental projects can jeopardize future jobs by making it more difficult and more expensive for business and industry to expand in the region, and by making it less desirable for businesses to locate and people to live there. II. LEGAL BACKGROUND CEQA has two basic purposes, neither of which the DEIR satisfies. First, CEQA is designed to inform decision makers and the public about the potential, significant environmental effects of a project.10 CEQA requires that an agency analyze potentially significant environmental impacts in an EIR.11 The EIR should not rely on scientifically outdated information to assess the significance of impacts, and should result from “extensive research and information gathering,” including consultation with state and federal agencies, local officials, and the interested public.12 To be adequate, the EIR should evidence the lead agency’s good faith effort at full disclosure.13 The EIR has been described as “an environmental ‘alarm bell’ whose purpose it is to alert the public and its responsible officials to environmental 10 CEQA Guidelines, § 15002, subd. (a)(1). 11 See Pub. Resources Code, § 21000; CEQA Guidelines, § 15002. 12 Berkeley Keep Jets Over the Bay Comm. v. Board of Port Comm. (“Berkeley Jets”) (2001) 91 Cal.App.4th 1344, 1367.; Schaeffer Land Trust v. San Jose City Council (1989) 215 Cal.App.3d 612, 620. 13 CEQA Guidelines, § 15151; see also Laurel Heights Improvement Assn. v. Regents of University of California (“Laurel Heights I”) (1988) 47 Cal.3d 376, 406.