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Responses to Comments on the EIR Addendum Building material manufacturer compliance with existing regulations combined with the characteristics of formaldehyde would limit the potential of human health and cancer risks to a less than significant level pursuant to the SCAQMD significance threshold of 10 per million. Therefore, health risks related to formaldehyde, including impacts associated with the project, would not result in a new significant impact. Response 11 The commenter restates Mr. Offermann's conclusion that the significant formaldehyde impact should be analyzed in an EIR and mitigation measures should be implementation to reduce the risk of formaldehyde exposure. The commenter lists a few of Mr. Offermann's recommended mitigation measures, such as requiring the use of no -added -formaldehyde composite wood products, requiring air ventilation systems that would reduce formaldehyde levels. As described in Response 10, the project would not exceed SCAQMD significance thresholds for formaldehyde. The project would be implemented pursuant to existing formaldehyde requirements, as all products manufactured or imported in the United States are required to meet these regulations. Application of these mandatory regulations would limit the potential of human health and cancer risks and avoid impacts related to formaldehyde. Therefore, no new significant impact would occur, and new mitigation measures related to formaldehyde are not necessary for the proposed project. Response 12 The commenter states that the City has a duty to investigate issues relating to a project' s potential environmental impacts, particularly those impacts raised by an expert's comments and those impacts on a project's users or residents that arise from the project's effects on the environment. The commenter states that the carcinogenic formaldehyde emissions identified by Mr. Offermann are not an existing environmental condition, rather those emissions would be a result from implementation of the project and are required to be addressed in the CEQA process. The commenter adds that the Addendum fails to disclose, analyze, or mitigate these new significant impacts. As discussed in Response 10, the project would be implemented pursuant to formaldehyde requirements, as all products manufactured or imported in the United States are required to meet these regulations. This would limit the potential of human health and cancer risks to a less than significant level pursuant to the SCAQMD significance threshold of 10 per million. As described in Response 10, the project would not exceed SCAQMD significance thresholds for formaldehyde and no new impact would occur. Response 13 The commenter summarizes the project's inconsistencies with the current UN-2 zone and associated zone change and variance, and states that these inconsistences with the zoning code and designations are significant impacts under CEQA that require analysis and mitigation in a supplemental EIR. The commenter states that these impacts were not analyzed in the 2010 FEIR since it was assumed that future projects would comply with the designated zoning and land use laws. 75C-291