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<br />consultation with the appropriate agency/agencies to ensure that site assessment, cleanup, and monitoring activities,
<br />as needed, are completed prior to development of each affected parcel. The governmental agencies mentioned in this
<br />“Hazards and Hazardous Materials” section of this document have legal jurisdiction over their respective areas of
<br />expertise and have the authority to withhold grading, building, and other permit necessary for project construction.
<br />These uniformly applicable policies, standards, and regulations would adequately assure that possible health and safety
<br />impacts related to exposure to existing hazardous materials contamination would be less than significant.
<br /> As noted above, the proposed Commercial Component would not create a significant hazard to the public or the
<br />environment through reasonably foreseeable upset and accident conditions involving the release of hazardous
<br />materials into the environment, nor would the Commercial Component emit hazardous emissions or handle hazardous
<br />materials under general office operations and the handling of hazardous materials under a R&D/Laboratory use would
<br />be subject to federal, state, and local regulations, design standards and permit requirements to reduce the risk of upset
<br />and accident conditions. As a result, this Commercial Component would be consistent with the analysis in the
<br />EIR/SEIR because it would not create new impacts or increase impacts, and there is no new information of substantial
<br />importance for CEQA purposes.
<br />c. The DTPP program EIR (pp. 14-12 through 14-13) concluded that the potential impact on schools from hazardous
<br />materials transport, use, or disposal, or from risk of upset and accident conditions involving the release of hazardous
<br />materials, would represent a less-than-significant impact with existing General Plan policies and federal, State, and
<br />local regulation and oversight of hazardous materials. The DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments program SEIR (pp. 14-10
<br />through 14-11) concurred with this conclusion.
<br /> However, the DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments program SEIR noted that future development “would require
<br />construction and possibly demolition activities, which would require the emission, transport, use, and disposal of
<br />hazardous materials within one-quarter mile of a school” and explained that “all activities [including potential R&D
<br />Laboratory space] associated with handling hazardous materials during future development would be subject to the
<br />federal, state, and local laws in place to ensure the proper handling of hazardous materials in the event of an accidental
<br />release.” The proposed Commercial Component would result in the emission, transport, use, and disposal of
<br />hazardous materials within one-quarter mile of Sequoia High School, which is across El Camino Real and less than
<br />0.25 miles from the Commercial Component site, albeit, the nearest structures are outdoor athletic facilities. As
<br />discussed in item (a) and item (b), the proposed Commercial Component would involve routine transport, use, or
<br />disposal of hazardous materials, and could result in hazardous emissions, though as explained in item (a) and item (b),
<br />it would involve a lower level of biohazards (BSL-1 and BSL-2) and compliance with standard applicable federal,
<br />State, County, and local regulations and also with City permit conditions pertaining to the this component’s
<br />R&D/Laboratory use would ensure that potentially significant hazards would be less than significant. Because the
<br />Commercial Component would not create a significant hazard to the public or the environment through reasonably
<br />foreseeable upset and accident conditions involving the release of hazardous materials into the environment, and
<br />project component handling and emissions of hazardous materials would be strictly regulated, the potential impact to
<br />schools related to the Commercial Component-related hazardous materials emissions or handling would be less than
<br />significant. As a result, this component would be consistent with the analysis in the EIR/SEIR because it would not
<br />create new impacts or increase impacts, and there is no new information of substantial importance for CEQA purposes.
<br />d. The DTPP EIR concluded that, due to the numerous existing hazardous materials sites in the area, construction
<br />activities associated with future development within the amended DTPP area could expose workers, the public, and/or
<br />the environment to contaminated soil and/or groundwater. The DTPP EIR further concluded that compliance with
<br />existing state and local laws and regulations would adequately address any potential impacts associated with exposure
<br />to contaminated soil and/or groundwater and/or hazardous fumes. The DTPP EIR determined that the impact would
<br />be less than significant, and no mitigation was required. The DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments program SEIR concurred
<br />that impacts related to exposing people and/or the environment to prior contamination associated with existing
<br />hazardous materials sites would be less than significant.
<br /> The proposed Commercial Component is not located on a site that is included on a list of hazardous materials sites
<br />compiled pursuant to Government Code Section 65962.5 (Cortese List) (https://calepa.ca.gov/sitecleanup/corteselist/,
<br />viewed 6/11/2024). While the Commercial Component site is not included in a Cortese List database, there are three
<br />State Water Resources Control Board GeoTracker database listings for sites either on the Commercial Component site
<br />or located immediately adjacent to the subject site:
<br /> (1) one site is identified as Cissna Chevron, located at 999 El Camino Real, and is listed as a leaking underground
<br />storage tank with the status of “Open - Site Assessment,” which means “Site characterization, investigation, risk
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