The District's Architect has completed the plans for all the modernization projects and submitted them to the Division of the State Architect (DSA). To streamline the approval from the CDE, the Resolution declares that the District desires to request a categorical CEQA exemption from the State Superintendent which is allowable because none of the modernization projects involve the following: (a) the cumulative impact of successive projects of the same type in the same place, which over time are significant; (b) an activity where there is a reasonable possibility that the activity will have a significant effect on the environment due to unusual circumstances; (c) a project which may result in damage to scenic resources, including but not limited to, trees, historic buildings, rock outcroppings, or similar resources, within a highway officially designated as a state scenic highway; (d) a hazardous waste site which is included on any list compiled pursuant to Section 65962.5 of the Government Code; and (e) a project which may cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of a historical resource;
The Resolution also authorizes and directs the Superintendent or her designee to file and process a Notice of CEQA Exemption.
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