Design and Planning for the Installation of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Serving Nevada County Facilities

2024110964

California Energy Commission

NOE - Notice of Exemption

11/26/2024

11/26/2024

LIEN HUYNH

Energy Commission

Grants Analyst

Lead/Public Agency

715 P Street
Sacramento, CA 95814

(916) 246-8252

lien.huynh@energy.ca.gov

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1-County Government Center 950 Maidu Ave. Nevada City 2-Wayne Brown Correctional Facility 925 Maidu Ave. Nevada City 3-Madelyn Helling Library 980 Helling Way, Nevada City 4-Facilities Service Center 10014 N.Bloomfield Road, Nevada City 5-County Storage Facility 12740 Loma Rica Drive, Grass Valley 6-Brighton Greens 988 McCourtney Road, Grass Valley 7-Crown Point 500 Crown Point Circle, Grass Valley 8-McCourtney Road transfer station 14741 Wolf Mountain Road, Grass Valley 9-Nevada County Airport 13059 John Bauer Ave. Grass Valley 110-Nevada County Operations Center 12350 La Barr Meadows Road, Grass Valley 11-Lake of the Pines Water Treatment Facility 10984 Riata Way, Auburn 12-Lake Wildwood Water Treatment Facility 12625 Pleasant Valley Road, Penn Valley 13-Sheriff’s Office Regional Dispatch and Training Facility 15434 CA 49, Nevada City 14-Truckee Library 10031 Levon Ave. Truckee 15-Joseph Government Center 10075 Levon Ave. Truckee 16-Gold Country Senior Services Center 231 Colfax Ave. Grass Valley

Categorical Exemption

Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, § 15301

California Code of Regulations, title 14, section 15301 provides that projects that consist of the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, licensing, and minor alteration of existing public or private structures, facilities, and mechanical equipment, involving negligible or no expansion of use, are categorically exempt from the provisions of CEQA. This project involves designing, planning and permitting for EV charging infrastructure at 16 existing facilities sites. The planning for EV charging will support existing fleets and public use of the existing facilities and would be considered a negligible expansion of use. Therefore, the project falls under Section 15301 and will not have a significant impact on the environment. The project will not impact an environmental resource of hazardous or critical concern where designated, precisely mapped, and officially adopted pursuant to law by federal, state, or local agencies; do not involve any cumulative impacts of successive projects of the same type in the same place that might be considered significant; do 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 sites are not included on any list compiled pursuant to Government Code section 65962.5; and the projects 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 these projects will not have a significant effect on the environment.

Categorical Exemption

Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, § 15306

Per Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, § 15306 projects consisting of basic data collection, research, and resource evaluation activities which do not result in a serious or major disturbance to an environmental resource. This project involves community outreach, design of ZEV charging infrastructure at 15 existing County-owned locations and one existing public facility, and development of cost estimates and an implementation plan. The project also includes identifying gaps and updating local guidelines for EV charging infrastructure. The proposed project's outreach and planning activities will have no significant effect on the environment and fall within the categorical exemption of section 15306. The project will not impact an environmental resource of hazardous or critical concern where designated, precisely mapped, and officially adopted pursuant to law by federal, state, or local agencies; do not involve any cumulative impacts of successive projects of the same type in the same place that might be considered significant; do 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 sites are not included on any list compiled pursuant to Government Code section 65962.5; and the projects 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 these projects will not have a significant effect on the environment.

Statutory Exemption

Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14 § 15262

Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14 § 15262 applies projects involving only feasibility and planning studies for possible future actions which the agency, board, or commission has not approved, adopted, or funded does not require the preparation of an environmental document. This project involves community outreach, design of ZEV charging infrastructure at existing County-owned locations, cost estimates and an implementation plan and will not have a significant impact on the environment The project will not impact an environmental resource of hazardous or critical concern where designated, precisely mapped, and officially adopted pursuant to law by federal, state, or local agencies; do not involve any cumulative impacts of successive projects of the same type in the same place that might be considered significant; do 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 sites are not included on any list compiled pursuant to Government Code section 65962.5; and the projects 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 these projects will not have a significant effect on the environment.