R-024-13 Adopting the Mitigated Negative Declaration for the Agua Mansa Sewer Main Improvement Project

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I RESOLUTION NO. R-24-13 2 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY 3 OF COLTON ADOPTING THE MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION FOR THE AGUA MANSA SEWER 4 MAIN IMPROVEMENT PROJECT. 5 WHEREAS, the City of Colton ("City") owns, operates, and maintains a wastewater 6 collection, pumping, and treatment system that serve's the City, neighboring City of Grand 7 Terrace, and unincorporated County areas; and 8 WHEREAS, The plant utilizes a conventional and extended aeration secondary treatment process to produce treated effluent in compliance with Regional Water Quality 9 Control Board regulations; and 10 WHEREAS, proposed new development in this area is requiring either amending the 11 agreement or building City own infrastructure to provide additional capacity of 120,000 gpd, and City staff has identified improvements in Agua Mansa Road as a high priority need based 12 on system infrastructure deficiencies and pending development in the area; and 13 WHEREAS, The Agua Mansa Sewer Main Improvement ("Project") is part of the 14 City's goal to serve the properties along the Agua Mansa Corridor and provide conveyance of wastewater from businesses and industrial facilities; and 15 WHEREAS, pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") (Pub. 16 Res. Code, § 21000 et seq.) and the State CEQA Guidelines (Cal. Code Regs, tit. 14 S 15000 et 17 seq.), the City is the lead agency for the proposed Project; and 18 WHEREAS City staff reviewed the Project and prepared an Initial Study pursuant to 19 CEQA; and 20 WHEREAS, on the basis of the Initial Study, which concluded that the Project will not have significant impacts on the environment with mitigation, the City determined that a 21 Mitigated Negative Declaration ("MND") should be prepared for the Project, and an MND was 22 prepared pursuant to CEQA and the State CEQA Guidelines; and 23 WHEREAS, the City provided copies of the draft MND and Initial Study to the public for a thirty -day review and comment period pursuant to Public Resources Code section 24 21091(b); and 25 WHEREAS as contained here, the City has endeavored in good faith to set forth the 26 basis for its decision on the proposed Project; and 27 WHEREAS, the City has endeavored to take all steps and impose all conditions 28 necessary to ensure that impacts to the environment would not be significant; and