Utility Agreement
65.
Recommendation: Acting as the Governing Body of the County Waterworks
Districts (Districts), authorize the Director of Public Works to execute utility
agreements, including any revisions or amendments thereto, with the State
Department of Transportation (State DOT), and to approve projects, which are
the subject of the agreements, revisions, or amendments for any construction,
design, inspection, and/or related work by or on behalf of any of the Districts
necessary to relocate Districts facilities in conflict with a State DOT project,
provided the amount to be paid or reimbursed by a District under any such
utility agreement does not exceed $330,000; authorize the Director to comply
with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) for projects, in connection
with the exercise of the delegated authority to execute utility agreements with
the State DOT, when one or more of the Districts is acting as a responsible
agency for the proposed utility agreements, revisions, or amendments
described herein, determine whether execution of the proposed utility
agreements, revisions, or amendments are exempt from CEQA or within the
scope of a previous finding of exemption, review and consider previously
approved Environmental Impact Reports (EIRs), Mitigated Negative Declarations
(MNDs) and Negative Declarations (NDs), determine whether or not a project is
within the scope of a previously certified EIR and any approved addenda, or
previously adopted MND or ND, determine whether or not a project described in
an EIR, MND, or ND, would have a significant effect on the environment, make
findings pursuant to CEQA guidelines, Section 15091, adopt a mitigation
monitoring program pursuant to CEQA Guidelines, Sections 15091 and 15096,
and file and post notices pursuant to Section 21152 of the Public Resources
Code; find that the delegation of authority to the Director to enter into utility
agreements and make necessary findings under CEQA is not a project under
CEQA; and
Also, acting as the Governing Body of the County Waterworks District No. 29,
Malibu, approve a utility agreement between the County Waterworks District No.
29, Malibu, and the State DOT, and authorize the Director to execute such
agreement, including any necessary revisions or amendments thereto, with an
estimated amount of $43,300 and not to exceed $330,000, to be paid by the
County Waterworks District 29, Malibu; and acting as a responsible agency,
find that approval and execution of the utility agreement is exempt from CEQA.
(Department of Public Works) APPROVE (24-1788)
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