NR 416 Lecture 6 questions with accurate answers
"Comment noted" Ans✓✓✓ - lead agency not obligated to prepare
detailed responses to opinion-based comments
- "comment noted" not prohibited by CEQA, but not advised: meaning is
uncertain, does not encourage meaningful public participation
Instead...consider the following:
"Section 15088 of the CEQA Guidelines only requires detailed
responses when a comment raises significant environmental issues. This
comment relates to the merits of the project, not to the issues analyzed in
the EIR. Thus, no changes to the document are necessary. The comment
will, however, become part of the administrative record and will be
considered by the decision makers. Thank you for participating in the
CEQA process."
Administrative Final and Final EIR Ans✓✓✓ Administrative final EIR
- responses to comments
- good faith effort of full disclosure
- do not have to respond to non-relevant comments
- discuss any alternatives suggested during public review
- May be in the form of revisions to the Draft EIR or a separate Final
EIR document
, - No separate review period
- Written response to commenting agencies: 10 days prior to
certification
- Better to discuss everything than ignore difficult issues
Contents of a DEIR/an Admin Draft EIR Ans✓✓✓ - table of contents
- executive summary
- project description
- environmental setting
- environmental impact analysis (direct, indirect, short term, long term,
cumulative, unavoidable)
- mitigation measures
- growth inducing impacts
- effects found not to be significant
- alternatives (no project alternative, environmentally superior
alternative)
- significant irreversible changes
- references, organizations, and persons consulted
Dealing with change prior to certification Ans✓✓✓ Required if
"significant new information" is added to the EIR after the close of
public comment period, but before FEIR certification
"Comment noted" Ans✓✓✓ - lead agency not obligated to prepare
detailed responses to opinion-based comments
- "comment noted" not prohibited by CEQA, but not advised: meaning is
uncertain, does not encourage meaningful public participation
Instead...consider the following:
"Section 15088 of the CEQA Guidelines only requires detailed
responses when a comment raises significant environmental issues. This
comment relates to the merits of the project, not to the issues analyzed in
the EIR. Thus, no changes to the document are necessary. The comment
will, however, become part of the administrative record and will be
considered by the decision makers. Thank you for participating in the
CEQA process."
Administrative Final and Final EIR Ans✓✓✓ Administrative final EIR
- responses to comments
- good faith effort of full disclosure
- do not have to respond to non-relevant comments
- discuss any alternatives suggested during public review
- May be in the form of revisions to the Draft EIR or a separate Final
EIR document
, - No separate review period
- Written response to commenting agencies: 10 days prior to
certification
- Better to discuss everything than ignore difficult issues
Contents of a DEIR/an Admin Draft EIR Ans✓✓✓ - table of contents
- executive summary
- project description
- environmental setting
- environmental impact analysis (direct, indirect, short term, long term,
cumulative, unavoidable)
- mitigation measures
- growth inducing impacts
- effects found not to be significant
- alternatives (no project alternative, environmentally superior
alternative)
- significant irreversible changes
- references, organizations, and persons consulted
Dealing with change prior to certification Ans✓✓✓ Required if
"significant new information" is added to the EIR after the close of
public comment period, but before FEIR certification
