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to or affecting the project site. C.3 ENVIIt( NNII° ti I'AL, C IT_'A t NC:I; PIII,PAIt k'TION Provided below is a description of the separate CEQA and NEPA compliant documents that are proposed for this project. CEQA Compliance — Based on conversations with City staff, it is URS' understanding that the project remains as proposed in the 1990 Final EIS/EIR; no changes in the project engineering are include in this scope of work. 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. Based on our understanding of the project, the widening of Bristol Street within the limits of Phases 3 and 4, as originally analyzed in the Final EIS/EIR (1990), would not meet any of the above -listed criteria pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15162 or 15163 requiring preparation of a Subsequent or Supplemental EIR, respectively. Therefore, URS will document the re-evaluation of Phases 3 and 4 of the overall widening of Bristol Street through preparation of a CEQA Addendum — one Addendum will be prepared to address both Phases 3 and 4. The updated technical studies that are prepared for the NEPA re-evaluation, as applicable, would be incorporated by reference into the CEQA Addendum. As described in Section 15164(e) of the CEQA Guidelines, a brief explanation (e.g., memorandum report) of the decision not to prepare a Subsequent EIR pursuant to Section 15162 of the CEQA Guidelines shall be included in the EIR Addendum — the Addendum does need not be circulated for public review.