Lompoc Wind Energy Project
6 Documents in Project
Summary
SCH Number
2006071008
Lead Agency
Santa Barbara County
Document Title
Lompoc Wind Energy Project
Document Type
EIR - Draft EIR
Received
Present Land Use
Main project site: Land use is grazing/pasture, zoned agricultural (AG-II-100); Comprehensive Plan designation is Commercial Agriculture (AC).
Proposed power line route: Most of the route is on grazing/pasture, zoned agricultural (AG-II or 100-AG). Part of the route is in a County road right-of-way. The final two blocks are within the City of Lompoc, variously zoned.
Document Description
NOTE: Partial recirculation of aesthetic/visual resources section of Draft EIR.
Proposed wind energy generation facility on private agricultural properties adjacent to San Miguelito Road. A new power line would be constructed by PG&E from the project site to the southeast corner of Lompoc, where it would tie into an existing power line outside PG&E's Cabrillo Substation. The project would include 65 wind turbine generators, up to 397 feet high, which would generate a total of 80-120 megawatts of electricity. The project would include new onsite gravel access roads and improvement of existing farm roads, an operations and maintenance building, a new onsite electrical substation, electrical lines, and other ancillary facilities. The project would be constructed in up to three phases, the first of which would install approximately 82.5 megawatts of electrical generation capacity.
The Draft EIR was originally released July 17, 2007, and public comment period closed September 4, 2007. Analysis conducted in response to public and agency comments identified significant new visual impacts at Miguelito County Park, San Miguelito Road adjacent to the park, and in the vicinity of the proposed operations and maintenance building on San Miguelito Road at Sudden Road. Therefore, we are recirculating the complete revised text and all new or revised figures of the Aesthetic/Visual Resources section of the Draft EIR. Figures that have not been revised are not included in the recirculated draft. Reevaluation of visual impacts from La Purisima Mission Historic State Park is included, in response to comments from several reviewers.
Contact Information
Name
John Day
Agency Name
Santa Barbara County
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Lompoc
Counties
Santa Barbara
Cross Streets
3525 to 5555 San Miguelito Road
Total Acres
2,950
Parcel #
083-080-004; 083-090-001 thru 004; 083-100-004, 007, 008; 083-250-011, 019
Railways
Southern Pacific
Airports
Vandenberg AFB
Waterways
San Miguelito Creek, Honda Creek
Notice of Completion
State Review Period Start
State Review Period End
State Reviewing Agencies
California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, South Coast Region 5 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 5 (DOT), California Energy Commission, California Highway Patrol, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Coast Region 3 (RWQCB), Department of Water Resources, Resources Agency
Development Types
Power:Wind (Wind Turbine Generation)(Megawatts 80-120 MW max)
Local Actions
Use Permit
Project Issues
Aesthetics
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