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03/25/2013 1. OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION These findings are made with respect to the "Project Approvals" (as defined below) for the Reusable Bag Ordinances (the "Project") to be adopted by the County of San Mateo (the "County") and various municipalities in the County and in Santa Clara County and state the findings of the Board of Supervisors (the "Board") of the County relating to the pofential environmental effects of the Project. The following findings are required by the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA"), Public Resources Code Sections 21081, 21081.5 and 21081.6, and Title 14, California Code of Regulations (the "CEQA Guidelines") Sections 15091 through 15093, for the Project. Pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 21081 and CEQA Guidelines Section 15091, no public agency shall approve or carry out a project where an Environ- mental Impact Report ("EIR") has been certified, which identifies one or more significant impacts on the environment that would occur if the Project is approved or carried out, unless the public agency makes one or more findings for each of those significant impacts, accompanied by a brief explanation of the rationale of each finding. The possible findings, which must be supported by substantial evidence in the record, are: a. Changes or alterations have been required in, or incorporated into, the Project that mitigate or avoid the significant impact on the environment. b. Changes or alterations are within the responsibility and jurisdiction of another public agency and have been, or can and should be, adopted by that other agency. c. Specific economic, legal, social, technological or other considerations make infeasible the mitigation measures or project alternatives identified in the EIR. For those significant impacts that cannot be mitigated to below a level of signifi- cance, the public agency is required to find that the specific overriding economic, legal, social, technological, or other benefits of the Project outweigh the significant impacts on the environment. As discussed in detail below, the Project would not result in any significant unavoidable effects; all potential impacts identified by Draft Program EIR and Final Program EIR are either beneficial or less than significant such that no mitigation measures are required. The Project EIR determines that no siqnificant impacts on the environment would occur if the Project is approved or carried out and onlv identifies impacts that would be considered less than siqnificant without need for mitiqation and impacts that would be considered beneficial to the environment. Findings for each of the 2 ORD.#2393 FORMERLY MUFF#305