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City of Santa Ana Environmental Checklist As discussed earlier under Regulatory Setting and demonstrated above in Table 3-10, the proposed project would be consistent with California's goal of reducing GHG emissions state-wide under All 32 through its reduction of emissions by 30% compared to the BAU conditions. The proposed project's amount of emissions, without considering other cumulative global emissions, would be insufficient to cause climate change. The proposed project also would be consistent with the state's goals of reducing GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. As such, the proposed project's contribution to climate change/worldwide GHG emissions would be less than significant Hazards and Hazardous Materials The scope of analysis for cumulative impacts associated with accidental spills, releases, or explosions of hazardous materials encompasses the project vicinity, including adjacent jurisdictions. Implementation of the proposed project has the potential to contribute to cumulative impacts on hazards and hazardous materials through the transport, storage, use, or handling of hazardous materials. Most of the past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future projects in the area surrounding the project site include religious, residential, and commercial land uses. Many of these may use, handle, store, and/or transport hazardous materials. However, past, present, and foreseeable future projects must comply with all existing hazardous material regulations in place through the local, state, and federal government. Furthermore, since the proposed project involves development of a school, present and foreseeable future projects within 0.25 of the project site would be required per CEQA Guidelines to consider the impacts of emitting hazardous emissions or handling hazardous or acutely hazardous materials, substances or waste near a proposed or existing school. These regulations are in place to reduce the potential of accidental releases, spill, or explosions of hazardous materials and to minimize the environmental and public health impact should one occur. Although projects cannot completely eliminate the probability associated with an accidental release, explosion, or spill, the existing regulations reduce the overall probability and minimize the impacts during a release. Therefore, past, present, and foreseeable future project are not cumulatively considerable. Some types of hazardous materials would be used during construction of the proposed project and hazardous materials would be needed for fueling and servicing construction equipment on the site on a temporary basis. Operation of the proposed residential and school activities generally use hazardous materials including solvents, cleaning agents, paints, pesticides, batteries, and aerosol cans. Although the project would utilize common types of hazardous materials, normal routine use of these products would not result in a significant hazard to residents or workers in the vicinity of the project. As discussed in Section Vlll, "Hazards and Hazardous Materials;" all impacts resulting from the proposed project related to hazards and hazardous materials would be less than significant. Thus, hazards and hazardous materials impacts related to the proposed project would be less than significant and would not be cumulatively considerable. Hydrology and Water Quality The geographic scope for cumulative impacts on hydrology and water quality Includes the Santa Ana River watershed and the Coastal Plain of Orange County Groundwater Basin. The cumulative setting for hydrology and water quality includes all the development and infrastructure that have occurred in the City of Santa Ana in the past and would be expected to occur in the future, including the projects listed in Table 3.26. Implementation of the proposed project has the potential to contribute to cumulative impacts on hydrology and water quality through the generation of stormwater runoff during construction and operation. The majority of the past, present, and reasonably foreseeable The Bat Nha Buddhist Meditation Center 3-101 June 2013 Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration ICF 00215.12 31 C-157