Symbio One - California Hydrogen Fuel Cell Manufacturing and Training Facility

2023020447

California Energy Commission

NOE - Notice of Exemption

2/17/2023

2/17/2023

Pilar Magana

California Energy Commission

Air Pollution Specialist

Lead/Public Agency

715 P Street MS 27
Sacramento, CA 95814

(916) 477-1548

pilar.magana@energy.ca.gov

32°56'32.8"N 117°2'46.3"W

Stowe Drive, Community Road

92064

Suites H-J

63

Interstate 15, Highway 67

Marine Corp Air Station

Dingeman Elementary, Creekside Elementary, Legacy Montessori

Poway Creek, Lake Miramar

Industrial Zone

Categorical Exemption

15301 "Existing Facilities", 15304 "Minor Alterations to Land"

Cal. Code Regs., Title 14, Sec. 15301 provides that projects which consist of the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features, and which involve negligible or no expansion of use beyond that existing at the time of the responsible agency’s determination, are categorically exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act. Cal. Code Regs., Title 14, Sec. 15304 provides that projects which consist of minor public or private alterations in the condition of land, water, and/or vegetation which do not involve removal of healthy, mature, scenic trees except for forestry and agricultural purposes are categorically exempt from the provisions of CEQA. In this project, minor trenching and directional boring may be necessary to lay conduit from the existing or new electrical infrastructure (transformer, switchgear, etc.) to the charging equipment. The trenching/boring will take place on currently paved ground and Notice of Exemption Authority cited: Sections 21083 and 21110, Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections 21108, 21152, and 21152.1, Public Resources Code Revised 2011 surface will be restored. Therefore, the project falls within section 15304 and will not have a significant effect on the environment. Poway: Modification of existing ground level loading door from 10’x12’ to 12’x14’ and adding an additional 12’x14’ GL loading door, hydrogen enabled facility. Pipelines are low pressure (indoor) pipelines that will not impact CEQA. Temecula: Modifications of existing facility to add walls, expand workspaces, offices, test labs, and hydrogen enabled facility. Pipelines are low pressure (indoor) pipelines that will not impact CEQA. This project does not involve impacts on any particularly sensitive environment; any cumulative impacts of successive projects of the same type in the same place that might be considered significant; does not involve unusual circumstances that might have a significant effect on the environment; will not result in damage to scenic resources within a highway officially designated as a state scenic highway; the project site is not included on any list compiled pursuant to Government Code section 65962.5, and the project will not cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of a historical resource. Therefore, none of the exceptions to categorical exemptions listed in CEQA Guidelines section 15300.2 apply to this project and this project will not have a significant effect on the environment.