Item 23 - Installment Sale Agreement for the Septic to Sewer Island Project

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California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Determination City of Santa Ana (Applicant) Septic to Sewer Island (Project) Project Number: C-06-8478-110 As the Deputy Director for the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board), Division of Financial Assistance, I have been delegated the authority to approve and execute financing agreements for projects that are routine and non -controversial. The execution of a financing agreement is an action that is subject to CEQA. The authority to make this CEQA determination necessarily accompanies the delegation to approve and execute the financing agreement for this Project. The Applicant is the CEQA Lead Agency and has prepared an Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) titled Septic to Gravity Sewer Conversion Project, for the Project which was circulated through the Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR), State Clearinghouse (No. 2020100428) for review and comments. The Applicant adopted the MND and a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP) and approved the Project on December 15, 2020. The Applicant filed a Notice of Determination with the Orange County Clerk on September 20, 2021 and the OPR on September 24, 2021. 2. The State Water Board is a Responsible Agency under CEQA. A Responsible Agency complies with CEQA by considering the MND and MMRP prepared by the Lead Agency and by reaching its own conclusions on whether and how to approve the Project involved. The State Water Board has independently considered the MND and MMRP, and pursuant to my delegated authority, I make the following determinations regarding the Project: • The Project will not result in any significant adverse water quality impacts. The MND and MMRP include mitigation measures for Tribal Cultural Resources, Geology and Soils, and Hazards and Hazardous Materials, that mitigate potential environmental impacts to less than significant levels for these impact categories. Changes or alterations to the Project based on these mitigation measures are within the responsibility and jurisdiction of other public agencies and are not within the jurisdiction of the State Water Board. Such changes either have been adopted by other relevant agencies or can and should be adopted by such other agencies. A final copy of the MND, MMRP, comments and responses, and records of the financing approval for the Project are available to the general public at the State Water Board, Division of Financial Assistance at 1001 1 Street, 16th Floor, Sacramento, CA 95814.