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Ytid Study—LID Annexation ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT CHECKLIST: An environmental impact checklist and accompanying analyses follow in Section 2 of this Initial Study. EARLIER ANALYSES AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE: The California Environmental Quality Act(CEQA) provides for the use of earlier environmental analyses where, pursuant to the tiering, program EIR, or other provisions of CEQA, environmental effects may be considered adequately analyzed in an earlier EIR or Negative Declaration. Under Section 15051 (d) of the Government Code (CEQA Guidelines) both San Joaquin County and the San Joaquin County Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo)will act as co-lead agencies for this Project. In the previous River Islands SEIR and other City infrastructure related EIRs, the City of Lathrop has been the lead agency. With the original formation of the LID and the adoption of its sphere of influence, LAFCo was the lead agency and adopted a Mitigated Negative Declaration in 2001. Since Public Utilities Code Section 9607(e) requires a County to be lead agency for environmental analysis related to electrical service facility construction and service provision, this Initial Study is being drafted and processed by both San Joaquin County under the applicable PUC code section and by LAFCo, by virtue of its lead agency status with the previously adopted initial study/negative declaration in 2001. The environmental effects of the LID annexation and the provision of services to the River Islands Project were addressed in previous environmental documents certified by the Lathrop City Council and in the negative declaration adopted previously by LAFCo. The purpose of this Initial Study is to determine whether there are new or substantially more severe environmental impacts relating to the LID's provision of services to the River Islands project. The previous General Plan and River Islands EIRs, cited below, encompassed and addressed the environmental effects of the proposed River Islands project, and along with several other recent EIRs provide sufficient analysis for the proposed LID annexation. LID is only one of several possible service providers that may provide water, sewer, recycled water, electric and telecommunication services to the River Islands development. LID is merely an alternative to other service providers that may also serve this development, e.g., the City of Lathrop and Pacific Gas and Electric. Because the impacts associated with the actual provision of services and construction of certain facilities were analyzed previously, the alternative of making LID the service provider(which is the subject of this annexation)triggers no new or substantially more severe impacts. In accordance with Sections 15153 and 15162 of the State CEQA Guidelines, this Initial Study incorporates by reference those prior documents included in the various "References" sections located in Section 2 of this document and finds that there are no new or potentially more adverse impacts previously analyzed. The referenced documents are referenced and elements are discussed and summarized throughout this Initial Study. Copies of each of these documents are available for review at the City of Lathrop Community Development Department Planning Division, 390 Towne Centre Drive, Lathrop, California 95330 (209/941-7290), San Joaquin County LAFCO, 1860 Hazelton Avenue, Stockton, California 95205 (209/488-3198)or the San Joaquin County Community Development Department, 1810 E.Hazelton Avenue, Stockton,California 95205 (209/468-3124). The subsequent checklist and the following narrative(1) identifies the environmental effects of the project that are within the scope of, and adequately analyzed in the earlier EIR documents, and (2) indicates whether such effects were addressed by mitigation measures identified in the earlier analysis. The checklist and narrative also identify whether the proposed project would involve any new significant environmental effects, or environmental effects that would be substantially more severe than those identified in the General Plan,River Islands EIR or other previous certified EIRs. 8