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Research and Data Collection URS will research and collect information related to the proposed project to support preparation of the environmental studies, including conducting detailed site reconnaissance and obtaining project-related reports, as-builts and record drawings, agreements, right-of-way data, and future improvements plans adjacent to or affecting the project site. 2. ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTATION PREPARATION Provided below is a description of the separate CEQA and NEPA compliant documents that are proposed for this project. CEQA Compliance - The RFP suggests that a Supplemental EIR to the originally certified EIR (2002) may be required for the project described herein. Based on conversations with City staff, it is URS' understanding that the description of the project alternatives included in the originally certified EIR have not changed for the proposed widening of Grand Avenue between First and Fourth Streets. It too is understood that there are no other reasonable or feasible alternatives beyond what were analyzed in the previous EIR. Section 15162(a) of the CEQA Guidelines states that when an EIR has been certified for a project, no Supplemental or Subsequent EIR shall be prepared for that project unless the Lead Agency determines, on the basis of substantial evidence in light of the whole public record, one of the following: Substantial changes are proposed in the project which will require major revisions of the previous EIR due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects; Substantial changes occur with respect to the circumstances under which the project is undertaken which will require major revisions of the previous EIR due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant impacts; New information of substantial importance, which was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time of the previous EIR was certified as complete, shows any of the following: • The project will have one of more significant effects not discussed in the previous EIR; or • Significant effects previously examined will be substantially more severe than shown in the previous EIR; or • Mitigation measures or alternatives previously found not to be feasible would in fact be feasible, and would substantially reduce one or more significant effects of the project, but the project proponents decline to adopt the mitigation measures or alternative; or • Mitigation measures or alternatives which are considerably different from those analyzed in the previous EIR would substantially reduce one or more significant effects on the environment, but the project proponents decline to adopt the mitigation measure or alternative. 9