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Environmental Impact Reports
A Summary of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
(California Public Resources Code, Sections 21000 – 21178, and Title 14 CCR, Section 753, and Chapter 3, Sections 15000 – 15387)
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is California’s broadest environmental law. CEQA helps to guide the Department during issuance of permits and approval of projects. Courts have interpreted CEQA to afford the fullest protection of the environment within the reasonable scope of the statutes. CEQA applies to all discretionary projects proposed to be conducted or approved by a California public agency, including private projects requiring discretionary government approval.
The purpose of CEQA is to:
- Disclose to the public the significant environmental effects of a proposed discretionary project
- Prevent or minimize damage to the environment through development of project alternatives, mitigation measures, and mitigation monitoring.
- Disclose to the public the agency decision-making process utilized to approve discretionary projects through findings and statements of overriding consideration.
- Enhance public participation in the environmental review process through scoping meetings, public notice, public review, hearings, and the judicial process.
- Improve interagency coordination through early consultations, scoping meetings, notices of preparation, and State Clearinghouse review.
Merced County's Environmental Impact Reports
- 03-12-21 - City of Livingston Community Development Department - NOA - The Villages at Main Apartment Community
- 03-15-21 - Merced Community College District - NOE - Merced College Vocational Building Project
- 03-15-21 - City of Newman - NOI to Adopt a ND
- 03-17-21 - Stevinson Water District - NOE
- 03-23-21 - San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District - NOD - Guilherme Brasil Dairy Expansion Project
- 03-30-21 - San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District - Merced Pipeline, LLC
- 04-02-21 - University of California Merced - NOP
- 04-06-21 - City of Livingston - NOE - Park Irrigation with Surface Water
- 04-09-21 - City of Atwater - NOE
- 04-09-21 - City of Atwater - NOE - Conditional Use Permit No. 20-14-0100
- 04-09-21 - City of Atwater - NOE - Conditional Use Permit No. 20-15-0199
- 04-09-21 - City of Atwater - NOE - Conditional Use Permit No. 21-9-0100
- 04-12-21 - City of Atwater - NOE - Conditional Use Permit No. 568-19
- 04-12-21 - City of Atwater - NOE - Conditional Use Permit No. 564-19
- 04-12-21 - City of Atwater - NOE - Resolution No. PC 0125-19
- 04-12-21 - City of Atwater - NOE - RSO-PC081-19 CUP 560-19
- 04-12-21 - City of Atwater - NOE - Site Plan No. 722-19
- 04-13-21 - City of Atwater - NOE - Conditional Use Permit No. 20-17-0100
- 04-14-21 - San Luis and Delta - Mendota Water Authority - NOE - Subsidence Mitigation Geotechnical Exploration