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BALE//!/FEL®E Bright People.Right Solutions. Utilities and Service Systems Global Climate Change Mandatory Findings of Significance Environmental Evaluation Checklist Terminology The potential environmental effects of the proposed project are evaluated in the following Environmental Evaluation Checklist. The checklist includes a list of environmental considerations against which the project is evaluated. For each question, the agency determines whether the project would involve: 1) No Impact, 2) a Less Than Significant Impact, 3) a Less Than Significant Impact With Mitigation Incorporated, or 4) a Potentially Significant Impact. A Potentially Significant Impact occurs when there is substantial evidence that the project would involve a substantial adverse change to the physical environment, i.e. that the environmental effect may be significant, and mitigation measures have not been defined that would reduce the impact to a less than significant level. If there are one or more Potentially Significant Impact entries in the Initial Study, an EIR is required. A Less Than Significant Impact occurs when the project would involve effects on a particular resource, but the project would not involve a substantial adverse change to the physical environment, and no mitigation measures are required. An environmental effect that is Less Than Significant With Mitigation Incorporated is a Potentially Significant Impact that can be avoided or reduced to a less than significant level with the application of mitigation measures. A determination of No Impact is self-explanatory. Summary of Environmental Effects and Mitigation Measures The following pages contain Table 1-1, Summary of Impacts and Mitigation Measures. The table is drawn from the Environmental Checklist Form Chapter 3. The potential environmental impacts of the proposed project are summarized in the left-most column of this table. The level of significance of the impact is indicated in the second column, mitigation measures proposed to minimize the impacts are shown in the third column, and the significance of the impact, after mitigation measures are applied, is shown in the fourth column. In this environmental document, those entities or persons responsible for the project application and/or its ultimate construction and operation are known as the "owners, developers and/or successors-in-interest." This is abbreviated as 121339/ST011 R226 1-3 October 14, 2011 copyright 2011 Kleinfelder