Delta Adapts Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment
Summary
SCH Number
2021060703
Public Agency
Delta Stewardship Council
Document Title
Delta Adapts Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
6/30/2021
Document Description
Delta Adapts: Creating a Climate Resilient Future (Delta Adapts) is the Delta Stewardship Council’s climate change study consisting of a first-ever climate change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Strategy for the Delta and Suisun Marsh. The first phase of Delta Adapts, a Vulnerability Assessment, has been completed, released for public review and was adopted by the Council on June 24, 2021. The Council determined that the Vulnerability Assessment with attachments are exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
Contact Information
Name
Jeff Henderson
Agency Name
Deputy Executive Officer
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Cities
Antioch, Benicia, Brentwood, Byron, Fairfield, Isleton, Lathrop, Manteca, Oakley, Rio Vista, Sacramento, Stockton, Suisun City, Tracy, West Sacramento
Counties
Alameda, Contra Costa, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Solano, Yolo
Regions
Northern California, San Francisco Bay Area
Total Acres
854,000
State Highways
Multiple
Railways
UPRR, SPRR
Airports
Byron, Rio Vista
Schools
Multiple
Waterways
Multiple
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Class 6 - Information Collection (14 CCR section 15306)
Reasons for Exemption
The Vulnerability Assessment with attachments is a study that may lead to an action that the Council has not yet approved, adopted, or funded. It has involved data collection and research in the form of consulting with other public agencies, public input, and the input of a Technical Advisory Committee. None of these activities involved or resulted in a disturbance to environmental resources.
Exempt Status
Statutory Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Feasibility and Planning Studies (Public Resources Code section 21102)
Reasons for Exemption
The Vulnerability Assessment with attachments involves only evaluations of scientific climate change information and may lead to recommendations for possible future planning actions (it is the first step in a planning study) that the Council has not yet approved, adopted, or funded; it will not have a legally binding effect on later activities and will not have a significant effect, or any physical effect, on the environment. Because this is only the first step of a planning study, there are no environmental factors to consider.
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Common Sense Exemption (14 CCR section 15061(b)(3))
Reasons for Exemption
The Vulnerability Assessment with attachments consists of an evaluation of the best available scientific information concerning climate change impacts and vulnerabilities in the Delta and makes findings regarding existing and future climate vulnerabilities in the Delta. The Vulnerability Assessment informs a future Adaptation Strategy, which may make recommendations regarding possible changes to the Delta Plan and other Council activities for future consideration by the Council as part of an ongoing planning process. Any recommendations on possible changes to the Delta Plan or other Council documents would be considered a separate process and are outside the scope of Delta Adapts. As the Vulnerability Assessment involves only the study of evaluations and recommendations for possible future planning actions, the Vulnerability Assessment will not have a significant effect, or any physical effect, on the environment.
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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