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Item No. 6 (continued) 18. Appellants, or a member of the public speaking on their behalf at the hearing on appeal, contended that the San Mateo County Airport Land Use Committee, a subcommittee of the Regional Planning Committee of the County of San Mateo, had not been provided with an opportunity to review the DEIR. 19. The Airport Land Use Committee is an adjunct of the County of San Mateo and, therefore, to the extent said County determines that that Committee should review environmental impact reports, generally, it is the responsibility of the County to ensure that such reports are circulated to the Committee. A copy of the DEIR was submitted to the County in accordance with CEQA, the State CEQA Guidelines, and R.C. Res. No. 6882. Further, the FEIR does take into consideration studies of the Airport Land Use Committee (FEIR, pps. 2 -26 - 2 -30). 20. At the public hearing on appeal, the San Mateo County Director of Environmental Health, who also serves as the City's Health Officer, recommended that a "risk analysis" (i.e., an assessment of the effects of the former use of the Project site upon human occupancy thereof) be performed as a part of the current environmental review. 21. The intended use of the FEIR is to provide environmental information relating to a proposed change in the Specific Plan for the Project site. The Project site is subject to an existing Specific Plan and the terms and conditions of a Development Agreement consistent therewith. Further City entitlements will be necessary for the Project proponent to proceed with the Project including, but not limited to, recission of the existing Development Agreement, rezoning, subdivision approvals, (presumably) issuance of a planned development permit, and similar such actions, depending upon the ultimate nature of the Project and development techniques employed in connection therewith. 22. The State CEQA Guidelines provide, in pertinent part: "Section 15146. The degree of specificity required in an EIR will correspond to the degree of specificity involved in the underlying activity which is described in the EIR. " "(b) An EIR on a project such as the adoption or amendment of a comprehensive zoning ordinance or a local general plan should focus on the secondary effects that can be expected to follow from the adoption, or amendment, but the EIR need not be as detailed as an EIR on the specific construction projects that might follow." 23. The specificity required of the FEIR is similar to that described in subdivision (b) of the above - quoted Section 15146, since the purpose for which the FEIR has been prepared relates to a proposed amendment to the Specific Plan for the Project site. A "risk analysis" relating to the effects of the former solid waste disposal useage of the Project site would be premature in connection with the approval of amendments to the Specific Plan MINUTE BOOK NO. 48 PAGE No. 310 Reg.Mtg. 2/27/89 Page 11