SCH Number 2020080442

Project Info

Title

Revised Draft Environmental Assessment for Cargill, Incorporated Solar Sea Salt System

Description

This revised Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) analyzes the environmental impacts of the proposed continued maintenance and operation activities of Cargill, Incorporated’s (Cargill’s) Solar Salt System in Newark and Redwood City, California (Proposed Project). A Draft EA for the proposed Project was previously released on April 28, 2021. Subsequent to the release of the April 2021 Draft EA, Cargill has proposed changes to the Project, and BCDC has determined that it is appropriate to recirculate the Draft EA reflecting the revised information. With respect to Cargill’s proposed Project, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) serves as the lead agency for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). However, BCDC is exempt from typical CEQA requirements of a lead agency to prepare an environmental impact report, negative declaration, or mitigated negative declaration for Cargill’s Proposed Project because it instead implements a regulatory program that has been certified by the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency as meeting the requirements of section 21080.5 of CEQA. (See Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations section 15251(h).) Therefore, BCDC has prepared this revised Draft EA in compliance with its regulations implementing its certified regulatory program as codified at 14 CCR sections 11511 to 11521.BCDC is providing a public review period from August 22, 2024 until September 21, 2024 for the document. Written comments on the Draft EA are welcome and should be sent so as to be received no later than 5:00 p.m. on September 21, 2024, to: San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission Attn: Sam Fielding, Bay Resources Analyst 375 Beale Street, Suite 510 San Francisco, California 94105 Email: sam.fielding@bcdc.ca.gov Phone: 415-352-3665

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