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Responses to <br />Environmental Checklist <br />For CEQA Compliance <br />Evaluation of Environmental Impacts: <br />A brief explanation is required for all answers except "No Impact" answers that are adequately supported <br />by the information sources a lead agency cites in the parentheses following each question. A "No Impact" <br />answer is adequately supported if the referenced information sources show that the impact simply does <br />not apply to projects like the one involved (e.g., the project falls outside a fault rupture zone). A "No <br />Impact" answer should be explained where it is based on project-specific factors as well as general <br />standards (e.g., the project will not expose sensitive receptors to pollutants, based on a project-specific <br />screening analysis). <br />All answers must take account of the whole action involved, including off-site as well as on-site, <br />cumulative as well as project-level, indirect as well as direct, and construction as well as operational <br />impacts. <br />111. Once the lead agency has determined that a particular physical impact may occur, then the checklist <br />answers must indicate whether the impact is potentially significant, less than significant with mitigation, or <br />less than significant. "Potentially Significant Impact" is appropriate if there is substantial evidence that an <br />effect may be significant. If there are one or more "Potentially Significant Impact" entries when the <br />determination is made, an EIR is required. <br />IV. "Negative Declaration: Less Than Significant With Mitigation Incorporated" applies where the incorporation <br />of mitigation measures has reduced an effect from "Potentially Significant Impact" to a "Less Than <br />Significant Impact." The lead agency must describe the mitigation measures, and briefly explain how they <br />reduce the effect to a less than significant level (mitigation measures from "Earlier Analyses," as <br />described in (V) below, may be cross-referenced). <br />V. Earlier analyses may be used where, pursuant to the tiering, program EIR, or other CEQA process, an <br />effect has been adequately analyzed in an earlier EIR or negative declaration. Section 15063(c)(3)(D). In <br />this case, a brief discussion should identify the following: <br />a) Earlier Analysis Used. Identify and state where they are available for review. <br />b) Impacts Adequately Addressed. Identify which effects from the above checklist were within the scope of <br />and adequately analyzed in an earlier document pursuant to applicable legal standards, and state whether <br />such effects were addressed by mitigation measures based on the earlier analysis. <br />c) Mitigation Measures. For effects that are "Less than Significant with Mitigation Measures Incorporated," <br />describe the mitigation measures which were incorporated or refined from the earlier document and the <br />extent to which they address site-specific conditions for the project. <br />VI. Lead agencies are encouraged to incorporate into the checklist references to information sources for <br />potential impacts (e.g., general plans, zoning ordinances). Reference to a previously prepared or outside <br />document should, where appropriate, include a reference to the page or pages where the statement is <br />substantiated. <br />VII. Supporting Information Sources: A source list should be attached, and other sources used or individuals <br />contacted should be cited in the discussion. <br />VIII. This is only a suggested form, and lead agencies are free to use different formats; however, lead agencies <br />should normally address the questions from this checklist that are relevant to a project's environmental <br />effects in whatever format is selected. <br />IX. The explanation of each issue should identify: <br />a) The significance criteria or threshold, if any, used to evaluate each question; and <br />b) The mitigation measure identified, if any, to reduce the impact to less than significance <br />75A-43