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City of Santa Ana – The Bowery May 11, 2020 Page 2 of 28 the EIR for the Project. (Citizens for Clean Energy v City of Woodland (2014) 225 Cal. App. 4th 173, 191 [finding that any party who has objected to the Project’s environmental documentation may assert any issue timely raised by other parties].) Moreover, Commenters request that the Lead Agency provide notice for any and all notices referring or related to the Project issued under the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”), Pub. Resources Code § 21000 et seq, and the California Planning and Zoning Law (“Planning and Zoning Law”), Gov. Code §§ 65000– 65010. Pub. Resources Code §§ 21092.2, and 21167(f) and Gov. Code § 65092 require agencies to mail such notices to any person who has filed a written request for them with the clerk of the agency’s governing body. The City must seriously consider proposing that the Applicant provide additional community benefits such as requiring local hire and paying prevailing wages to benefit the City. Moreover, it would be beneficial for the City to require the Applicant to hire workers: (1) who have graduated from a Joint Labor Management apprenticeship training program approved by the State of California, or have at least as many hours of on-the-job experience in the applicable craft which would be required to graduate from such a state approved apprenticeship training program and; (2) who are registered apprentices in an apprenticeship training program approved by the State of California. I. EXPERTS This comment letter includes comments from air quality and greenhouse gas experts Matt Hagemann, P.G., C.Hg. and Paul Rosenfeld, Ph.D. concerning the DEIR. Their comments, attachments, and Curriculum Vitae (“CV”) are attached hereto and are incorporated herein by reference. Matt Hagemann, P.G., C.Hg. (“Mr. Hagemann”) has over 30 years of experience in environmental policy, contaminant assessment and remediation, stormwater compliance, and CEQA review. He spent nine years with the U.S. EPA in the RCRA and Superfund programs and served as EPA’s Senior Science Policy Advisor in the Western Regional Office where he identified emerging threats to groundwater from perchlorate and MTBE. While with EPA, Mr. Hagemann also served as Senior Hydrogeologist in the oversight of the assessment of seven major military facilities undergoing base closer. He led numerous enforcement actions under provisions of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and directed efforts to improve hydrogeologic characterization and water quality monitoring.