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time for widening from two to four lanes. The added mitigation measures are to be incorporated into the environmental documentation for the Neighborhood "F"project which will be tiered onto the MSIR. As such, no major revisions are needed to the MSIR to incorporate these changes. Some roadway segments have improved levels of service that now require no mitigation improvements for 2010. However, it is expected that these improvements will still be needed in the future beyond 2010. The Master Plan and MEIR require a full traffic impact analysis for each Specific Plan; and at this time, by the latest, additional traffic studies will be prepared for cumulative traffic impacts with an expanded time frame. Finding: There is no new available information of substantial importance which was not known and could not have been known at the time the Mountain House New Communitv Master Plan and Specific Plan I EIR was certified. CEQA Requirements:To more clearly address the required findings above, Section 15162 of CEQA has been addressed below. This section deals with Subsequent EIRs and Negative Declarations but defines more clearly the issues of "new available information of substantial importance." (3) New information ofsubstantial importance, which was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time the previous EIR was certified as complete shows any of the following: (A) The project will have one or more significant effects not discussed in the previous EIR or negative declaration; (B) Significant effects previously examined will be substantially more severe than shown in the previous EIR; (C) Mitigation measures or alternatives previously found not to be feasible would in fact be feasible, and would substantially reduce one or more significant effects of the project, but the project proponents decline to adopt the mitigation measure or alternative; or (D) Mitigation measures or alternatives which are considerably d fferent from those analyzed in the previous EIR would substantially reduce one or more significant effects on the environment, but the project proponents decline to adopt the mitigation measure or alternative. Statement of Fact: The initial study prepared for the Neighborhood F project identified no new significant effects that were not already discussed in the 1 E=. The initial study conducted for the Neighborhood "F"evaluated the information, impacts and mitigation measures contained in the MEIR. The Initial Study identified three areas where there was new information, geology and cumulative growth. Studies were prepared for noise and traffic thereby generating new information for these areas. The new information identified below does not result in the need to prepare a subsequent or supplemental EIR. A-7 Appendix A