PREFACE
March 26, 2019
In
response to a request under the California Public Records Act, the City of
Vallejo is exercising its discretion to make public the unfinished draft Final
Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) for the VMT/Orcem project. The current
version of this document is not ready for certification under the purposes of
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). As of this date,
clarification is needed as to who is the responsible party for certain
indemnity and mitigation measures, and who has site control and ownership of
the project site. While this clarification is obtained processing of the EIR
has been paused.
As
of March 26, 2019, the City, as lead agency, has determined that the
VMT/Orcem project is not yet ready for approval and that the environmental
documents that have been prepared do not yet achieve a compliance with CEQA
(Cal. Code Regs, Titl. 14 Section 15090(a)(1)) Thus, the FEIR is not ready to
be presented to the City Council for certification and project approval under
CEQA (Cal. Code Regs, Titl. 14 Section 15090(a)(2)).
While
the processing of the application has been paused, staff will endeavor to work
with applicants to obtain an updated environmental justice analysis, and data,
as well as commitments from the applicants to perform certain mitigation
measure in order to present them as feasible. Feasible in this context means
capable of being accomplished in a successful manner within a reasonable period
of time, taking into account economic, environmental, legal, social, and
technological factors (Cal. Code Regs, Titl.14 Section 15364).
Recognizing
that the applicants and the public have requested release of the draft FEIR for
public viewing, the City is accommodating these requests by posting the
documents here. A progress report on this project is expected to be
presented to Council by April 23, 2019.
DRAFT FEIR Documents can be found by clicking HERE