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Local Guidelines for Implementing the <br />California Environmental Quality Act (2019) GENERAL PROVISIONS, PURPOSE AND POLICY. <br /> <br />1.06 T ERMINOLOGY. <br />cision being left to the discretion of the City. <br />1.07 P ARTIAL I NVALIDITY. <br />In the event any part or provision of these Local Guidelines shall be determined to be <br />invalid, the remaining portions that can be separated from the invalid unenforceable provisions <br />shall continue in full force and effect. <br />1.08 E LECTRONIC D ELIVERY OF C OMMENTS AND N OTICES. <br />Individuals may file a written request to receive copies of public notices provided for <br />under these Local Guidelines or the State CEQA Guidelines. The requestor may elect to receive <br />these notices via email rather than regular mail. Notices sent by email are deemed delivered <br />when the staff person sending the email sends it to the last email address provided by the <br />requestor to the City. Any request to receive public notices shall be in writing and shall be <br />renewed annually. <br />Individuals may also submit comments on the CEQA documentation for a project via <br />email. Comments submitted via email shall be treated as written comments for all purposes. <br />Comments sent to the City via email are deemed received when they actually arrive in an email <br />account of a staff person who has been designated or identified as the point of contact for a <br />particular project. <br /> CEQA also requires the lead agency to make copies of certain environmental documents <br />available in an electronic format (such as Draft Environmental Impact Reports, Draft Negative <br />Declarations and Draft Mitigated Negative Declarations), upon request. <br />1.09 T HE C ITY M AY C HARGE R EASONABLE F EES F OR R EPRODUCING E NVIRONMENTAL <br />D OCUMENTS. <br />A public agency may charge and collect a reasonable fee from members of the public that <br />request a copy of an environmental document, so long as the fee does not exceed the cost of <br /> public <br />agencies to seek reimbursement for include: initial studies, negative declarations, mitigated <br />negative declarations, draft and final EIRs, and documents prepared as a substitute for an EIR, <br />negative declaration, or mitigated negative declaration. <br /> The City may choose to make documents available to the public-at-large on its website <br />or charge a reasonable fee for reproducing the document in hard-copy form, on compact discs, <br />email attachments, or other digital transfers. Requests for documents made pursuant to the <br />California Public Records Act must comply with the Government Code. (See, for example, <br />Government Code Section 6253.9 for information regarding providing documents in electronic <br />format.) <br /> <br />2019 City of Santa Ana Local Guidelines 1-3 ©Best Best & Krieger LLP <br /> <br />