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4 Environmental Analysis 4.18 Wildfire responsibilities to ensure the effective management of emergency operations within the Alameda Operational Area. Cities and towns within the County participate in the Alameda Office of Emergency Services coordination of emergency management activities (Alameda County 2012). Alameda County Community Wildfire Protection Plan The Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP)for Alameda County, updated in 2015, provides a comprehensive analysis of wildfire hazards and risks in the wildland-urban interface of Alameda County. The CWPP contains an action plan, which identifies wildfire mitigation measures. These measures are organized into four broad categories, including education planning priorities, enhanced suppression capability and emergency preparedness, fuel reduction treatments, and improving survivability of structures. The goal of the CWPP is to reduce hazard through increased information and education about wildfires, hazardous fuels reduction, actions to reduce structure ignitability, and other recommendations to assist emergency preparedness and fire suppression efforts (Alameda County 2015). San Joaquin County Local Hazard Mitigation Plan In September 2022, the San Joaquin County Office of Emergency Services launched an effort to reassess risks posed by natural and human-caused disasters and identify ways to reduce those risks and began updating the previously FEMA-approved 2018 LHMP. The LHMP intends to provide strategies for the County and other local jurisdictions to identify and implement mitigation actions for reducing damages from various natural and technological disasters. The LHMP outlines a process for assessing and analyzing those hazards to which San Joaquin County is most vulnerable. The process can improve the County's resilience by performing a hazard risk assessment, using available tools to complete a capabilities assessment, and then identifying mitigation actions for these hazards. The LHMP analyzes the risk posed to people and property by earthquakes, landslides, floods, wildfires, drought, severe weather, and other hazards, such as climate change, and considers mitigation actions that the County could implement before such events. The goal is to reduce the risk to life and safety and the risk of property damage and service disruption caused by these natural hazards. The LHMP establishes prioritized mitigation goals and adopts a 5-year implementation timeline, which the County would seek to implement, subject to funding and resource limitations (San Joaquin County 2022b). Alameda County Local Hazard Mitigation Plan The Alameda County LHMP was last updated in 2021 and adopted by the County Board of Supervisors and approved by FEMA in March 2022. The purpose of this plan, a requirement of FEMA, is to identify the natural hazards in our area, determine how they will impact our community, and develop strategies to lessen the effect of those hazards and create a more disaster resilient Alameda County. The plan includes a discussion of climate change adaptation and will also maximize the CRS credit for County residents under the auspices of the NFIP (Alameda County 2022). Griffith Energy Storage Project 4.18-12 Tetra Tech/SCH 2022120675 Draft Environmental Impact Report August 2023