1 miramar beach resort and bungalows project 2 - Santa Barbara ...

1 actually do an EIR, and I was wondering if you would
2 address that small issue. Given that we have a lot of
3 the work done, is that -- my own take on that is that is
4 not a small task; that is a big task. It's not
5 something we're going to just run through.
6 MS. BLACK: No.
7 MR. BIERIG: I'm not addressing whether we
8 need it or not. I'm just talking about what it takes to
9 do one.
10 MS. BLACK: Mr. Chair, it's hard because
11 we're kind of in the middle, and I think we've collected
12 most all of the information that we would include in an
13 EIR, but an EIR is not a small project to put together,
14 and there are --
15 MR. BIERIG: But it has various noticing
16 requirements. There are set time frames and so forth.
17 MS. BLACK: Right. We would have to do a
18 notice of preparation, and you do a notice of
19 preparation at least 30 days before you release a draft
20 environmental document, which is obviously the time that
21 it takes to prepare the draft.
22 And then there's a minimum 45-day public
23 review period on a draft, and you need to respond to all
24 the comments that are received. On this project it was
25 no small feat on the focused EIR that we did prepare.
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