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ti I (h) Environmental Quality Act of 1970 . The phrase "Environ- mental Quality Act of 1970" or the term "the Act" means Division 13 (commencing with §21000) of the California Public Resources Code as the same now exists or may from time to time be amended. (i) Feasible. The term " feasible" means capable of being accomplished in a successful manner by reasonably available, economic, and workable means . (j) Guidelines. The term "guidelines" means "Guidelines for Implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970, " as adopted and promulgated pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 21083 in Chapter 3 (com- mencing with §15000) , Division 6, Title 14, of the California Administrative Code, and as the same now exists or may from time to time be amended. (k) Lead Agency. The phrase " lead agency" means the public agency which has the principal responsibility for carrying out or approving a project which may have a significant effect on the environment where more than one public agency is involved with the same underlying activity. (1) Ministerial Project. The phrase "ministerial project" means a project undertaken or approved by a governmental decision made by an officer or agency of the City upon a given state of facts in a prescribed manner in obedience to the mandate of legal authority. Such decision must be made upon the given facts without regard to the officer' s or agency' s own judgment or opinion concerning the propriety or wisdom of the Act although the statute, ordinance or regulation under which decision is made may require, in some degree, a construction of its language by the officer or agency. (m) Negative Declaration. The phrase "negative declaration" means the statement that a project, not excepted from the requirements hereof as a categorical exemption or an emergency exemption, has been determined to have no significant effect on the environment, and therefore constitutes a project for which no environmental impact report is required. (n) Notice of Completion. The phrase "notice of completion" means the brief report required by Public Resources Code Section 21161 and the guidelines to be filed with the Secretary for Resources upon completion of a draft environmental impact report and its availability for review. (o) Notice of Determination. The phrase "notice of determination" means the brief notice to be filed with the County Clerk pursuant to the provisions of Public Resources Code Section 21152 upon approval of, or determination to carry out, a project subject to the requirements of the Act and the guidelines. -3-