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SA,CRrJV1E-1N`f'C' IVIUMI P A L UTILITY DISTRIC's' • NPDES • Air Quality • Water Quality • Hazardous Waste ® Conditional/Special Land Use NEPA Process 2.3.6 Miscellaneous Support the District in responding to various environmental issues, questions or problems. For instance — SMUD's Vegetation Management Program for keeping appropriate clearances from energized power lines occasionally encounters elderberry — some level of biological support might become necessary for this or other programs. 2.3.7 ADDITIONAL WORK: After the contract is awarded, the Contract Manager may add additional services that are normally provided by the Contractor, at the rates negotiated at the time the services arc requested. 2.3.8 WORKLOAD EXPECTATIONS Historical Perspective: The bulk of the CEQA work is for Distribution Substations and associated 69 kV power lines. The substation generally occupies an approximately 150 x 150 foot site and has 1 to 2 step down transformers (69 kV to 12 kV) overhead 69 kV lines and switches capacitors • control shed mise. small ancillary equipment 12 kV lines generally are underground and feed the local neighborhood. Since the initiation of CEQA until about a year ago, SMUD has been able to handle substation CEQA almost exclusively with negative declarations. Greater environmental protection requirements, encroachment of newer subdivisions into areas with giant garter snakes, Swainson's hawks, vernal pools and other wetlands coupled with longer nuns of 69 kV line to serve new development, and greater levels of public activity has over the last year forced SMUD to, in several instances, perform an EIR process instead of a negative declaration process. With the continued building boom in the Sacramento region, SMUD expects to conduct multiple, overlapping time frame CEQA processes to keep up with the permitting and constniction of Distribution Substations and 69 kV lines. Additionally, in the next few years one to two bulk substations are expected to be needed requiring the CEQA process before construction. A bulk substation occupies from 5 to 10 acres and steps 115 kV or 230 kV down to 69 kV to be sent to neighborhood distribution substations. Bulk substations are best located adjacent to existing transmission lines, otherwise extensions of large (I 15kV or 230 kV) power lines become necessary. Bulk substations have larger equipment than distribution substations 2-3 RFP040300RM.doe RFP Scn ices.dot lo. 4