Climate Action Plan Update

Climate Action Plan Update

The project is an updated climate action plan (CAP Update) that fulfills the mitigation requirements established in the environmental impact report (EIR) prepared for the County's 2011 General Plan (State Clearinghouse No. 2002111067). The CAP Update includes measures and actions to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the unincorporated county and from County operations to meet or exceed GHG reduction goals established by the State. The CAP Update proposes nine strategies, 21 measures, and 70 actions that the County would implement to reduce GHG emissions. To improve alignment with between State regulation, the proposed CAP Update, and the County's 2011 General Plan, the project also includes changes to Goal COS-20 and Policy COS-20 of the 2011 General Plan and mitigation measures adopted in the certified Final Program EIR (Mitigation Measures CC-1.2, CC-1.7, and CC-1.8). This draft SEIR has been prepared subsequent to the 2011 Program EIR and evaluates and discloses the environmental impacts related to implementation of the CAP Update, which is a mitigation requirement of the 2011 GPU PEIR, per the requirements of State CEQA Guidelines Section 15163. This document addresses whether the CAP Update, Associated General Plan amendments, County of San Diego Guidelines for Determining Significance: Climate Change, and GHG Threshold (including the CAP Consistency Review Checklist) would result in any new or substantially more severe environmental impacts than those previously evaluated in the certified 2011 Program EIR for the General Plan.

San Diego

Countywide

California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Coastal Commission (CCC), California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Marin Region 7 (CDFW), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, South Coast Region 5 (CDFW), California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, California Department of Transportation, Division of Transportation Planning (DOT), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), California Energy Commission, California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES), California Highway Patrol (CHP), California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Natural Resources Agency, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Diego Region 9 (RWQCB), California San Diego River Conservancy (SDRC), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Department of Toxic Substances Control, Office of Historic Preservation, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Quality, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights, California Department of Transportation, District 11 (DOT), California Department of Transportation, Division of Aeronautics (DOT)

California Department of Transportation, District 11 (DOT), California Department of Transportation, Division of Aeronautics (DOT)

Other (potential to result in indirect infrastructure improvements)

General Plan Amendment

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Energy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Growth Inducement, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Noise, Transportation, Tribal Cultural Resources, Wildfire