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KEETON KREI TZER CONSULTING STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS -CITY OF SANTA ANA Keeton Kreitzer Consulting has developed a comprehensive task -by -task scope of work, which can be revised to address the environmental analysis necessary fAa specific project. This scope of work will ensure that the work undertaken for a project responds to the mandates of the State CEQA Guidelines as well as those adopted for the specific lead agency. Prior to the initiation of each task during the environmental review and analysis process, the lead agency will be provided the opportunity to assess the environmental documentation and determine whether additional, more detailed analysis is needed. The aim of this approach to conducting environmental analysis is to ensure that decision -makers have the most complete and accurate information available to aid them in making crucial public decisions, which affect both the existing environmental conditions and resources. The preparation of a CEQA document would necessarily involve several integral work tasks or elements. Typically, these tasks include the following: Project Management/Coordination Project management will be an integral part of the planning process. As a result, this task will involve management and coordination of all work to be undertaken to prepare the environmental document. In order to. ensure that work associated with the preparation of the document is progressing in accordance with the schedule, meetings as determined necessary will be conducted that include representatives of the CEQA/NEPA consultant, project applicant, City of Santa Ana and/or other agencies having an interest in the proposed project. Specifically, this task may include several meetings, including scooping meetings. The remainder of this task encompasses day-to-day project management and coordination necessary to complete the environmental analysis. The KKC project manager will coordinate the work efforts of the individual, technical consultants to ensure that their work addresses the issues identified in the initial study and in NOP comments. In addition, the entire work effort will be conducted pursuant to the City's environmental review process. As a result, close coordination with the City's project manager will be necessary. Prepare Initial Study/Notice of Preparation (NOP) At the City's direction, KKC will prepare the initial study (IS) for a proposed project in order to thoroughly evaluate a project's environmental impacts and identify mitigation measures to incorporate into a Negative Declaration. Where such finding cannot be made, the IS will identify the nature and extent of the issues to be analyzed in a Draft EIR, including those issues where it cannot be shown that where potentially significant impacts are anticipated, the can be avoided or mitigated. Specifically, the purpose of the initial study is twofold: (1) to identify those issues that will be the subject of the analysis contained in the Draft EIR; and (2) to eliminate from further analysis those environmental issues, if any, where it can be shown that potential impacts resulting from project implementation will be less than significant. The initial study will contain environmental analysis to support the conclusion that where an environmental impact has been identified as less than significant, no further analysis is required and the issues would not be included in the Draft EIR. This analysis, therefore, must be necessarily comprehensive and exhaustive and, where necessary, it will identify specific mitigation measures and/or standard conditions that must be incorporated into the project to ensure that any potentially significant impacts that may occur are reduced to a level of significance in order to eliminate additional analysis in the Draft EIR. Where necessary, information and technical analysis prepared by the EIR consultant team as well as the applicant and/or applicant's technical consultants will also be used to evaluate the potential impacts associated with project implementation. Keeton Kreitzer Consulting Statement of Qualifications — Santa Ana, CA April 18, 2008