25G - AGMT - ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES - 200 E FIRST AMERICAN WAY

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Environmental Consulting Services (200 East First American Way) City of Santa Ana discipline, as needed. As required, the documents will include a discussion of direct, indirect, growth-inducing, and cumulative impacts. Following the City's review and approval of the administrative draft documents, ICF will incorporate the City's comments and will revise the document accordingly. For scoping and costing purposes, we have assumed one round of administrative draft submittals. Cumulative Impacts The cumulative impacts analysis will focus on the potential for environmental impacts from this project, along with other proposed and reasonably foreseeable projects in the area. We will develop the list of cumulative projects in coordination with City staff, and reach out to surrounding jurisdictions. We will evaluate and discuss the project's contribution to the overall cumulative baseline to identify "cumulatively considerable" impacts. Mitigation measures will be developed for any cumulatively considerable impacts, if applicable. Alternatives Analysts ICF will work closely with the City to identify and screen a reasonable range of alternatives for analysis in the EIR. In accordance with CEQA, we will qualitatively analyze the alternatives at a reduced level of detail in comparison to the proposed project, and we will compare the impacts of each of the alternatives with those of the proposed project, which will be presented in a narrative and a matrix format. CEQA requires that the FIR identify an environmentally superior alternative, and this summary matrix format will support that determination. We assume that the alternatives analysis will involve the No Project Alternative, a Reduced Project Alternative, and up to two other potential build-out scenarios. Growth-Inducing Impacts ICF will evaluate whether the proposed project would have the potential to directly or indirectly foster economic or population growth. This will include an assessment of whether the project or its components would directly contribute to growth or remove obstacles to population growth, such as through the extension of infrastructure. We will evaluate whether the project would result in additional impacts to existing community resources or would encourage and facilitate other activities that could significantly affect the environment. Significant Irreversible Environmental Changes ICF will summarize the significant unavoidable impacts resulting from the project and will identify any significant irreversible changes and irretrievable commitments of the environment. This will include a discussion of the use of nonrenewable resources, permanent conversion of land uses, improvements to areas previously inaccessible, and other factors that would commit future generations to similar environmental effects. Effects Found Not To Be Significant ICF will provide a qualitative explanation of issues found not to be significant during the IS process, as well as effects that were studied in the EIR that were determined to be less than significant. Deliverables ¦ Screencheck Draft EIR including all Technical Studies- 5 hardcopies and one round of review is assumed in the budget ¦ Electronic files and CD of the Screencheck Draft EIR Use or disclosure of data contained on this shmi is subject to lheresoictlon on the title page ofthis proposal Page 16 25G-28