HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 10091990 - 1.47 1-047
'00-0 Contra
TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Costa
FROM: Harvey E. Bragdon Co
OSTq"�-_-Tl -
Director of Community Development
By: Charles A. Zahn, Assistant Director
DATE: October 2, 1990
SUBJECT: Management of Environmental Impact Report for the Closure of the
Hazardous Waste Unit of the West Contra. Costa County Sanitary
Landfill
SPECIFIC REQUESTIS)OR RECOMMENDATION ISI&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION
Authorize the Director of Community Development to manage the preparation of
an Environmental .Impact Report for the State's Department of Health Services
(DOHS) for the closure of the hazardous waste .unit of the West Contra Costa
Sanitary Landfill, subject to the terms. of the May 16, 1989, Memorandum of
Understanding between the Board of Supervisors and the . State Department of
Health Services.
FINANCIAL IMPACT
None. The cost of preparing the Environmental Impact Report would be borne
by the landfill operator (Richmond Sanitary Service) .
BACKGROUND
State and regional - agencies in recent years have arranged for the Community
Development Department to manage the preparation of Environmental Impact
Reports for some of their "projects" under circumstances where the projects
are located in. Contra Costa County but when they are the Lead Agencies for
CEQA purposes and the County has no discretionary approvals. If there were
County discretionary approvals, the state and regional agencies would. prefer
to defer to the General-purpose local unit of government for EIR preparation.
Recent examples of EIR's the County has prepared for other agencies are the
EIR's for the DOW Hazardous Waste Incinerator (for DOHS) and for a set of co-
generation facilities (for the Bay Area Air Quality Management .District) .
Arrangements have been made for. the Community Development Department to
prepare the closure plan EIR for the IT Vine Hill-Baker facility, which DOHS
now expects to get underway in early 1991. The West Contra Costa Sanitary
Landfill hazardous waste unit closure project EIR would be similar to the IT
closure project in many respects.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: X YES SIGNATURE:
_RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR _RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S): nn
ACTION OF BOARD ON OCT 9 1990 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I HEREBY CERTIFY.THAT THIS IS A TRUE
UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ► AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
ATTESTED OCT 9 1990
CC: County Administrator (Risk Management) PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
County Counsel SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Community.Development (Orig. Dept.)
State Department of Health Services. (via CCD)
Richmond Sanitary Service
BY 4— DEPUTY
Among the reasons for the state and regional agencies to have the County
manage the preparation of certain of their EIR's are the Community
Development Department's familiarity with a broader range of local
environmental issues that could result from the projects and the Community
Development Department's greater experience with the CEQA process. A benefit
to the County's citizens is the opportunity to ensure that the broader range
of issues are addressed in the resulting EIR's.
DOHS informally approached the Community Development Department on this
matter approximately two years ago, but the landfill's closure plan was not
ready to be evaluated. DOHS now expects the plan to be submitted in early
1991, and sent a letter of request to the Board of Supervisors on August 7,
1990 asking for Board authorization. The Community Development would be able
to devote the moderate amount of time needed to oversee the EIR's
preparation, and is agreeable to again serving as the management agency.
Subsequent to the initial contact, the County and DOHS developed a Memorandum
of Understanding for the managementof the EIR's for DOHS in connection with
Preparations for the IT closure plan EIR. The Board approved the Memorandum
of Understanding on May 16, 1989. Since the terms of the Memorandum of
Understanding are generic, it is proposed to apply it to the program for
preparing the West Contra Costa Sanitary Landfill hazardous waste disposal
unit closure plan EIR.
Attachment: Memorandum of Understanding
jl59:wcccsl:brd