California Environmental Quality Act
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires State Parks to conduct a thorough analysis of the potential physical environmental impacts of implementing the El Capitan, Refugio, and Gaviota (ECRG) General Plan Update to inform decision makers and the public where significant impacts would be, and methods to reduce those impacts to the extent feasible.
State Parks will prepare an Environmental Impact Report (EIR), which will include an analysis of each of the CEQA Guidelines Appendix G, Environmental Checklist, topic areas as appropriate. The EIR will also include identification of baseline conditions; thresholds of significance; range of reasonable alternatives; cumulative impact analysis; growth-related impact discussion; description of significant effects of the proposed project on the environment; and mitigation measures proposed to avoid, minimize, rectify, reduce, eliminate, or compensate for any identified significant impacts. This programmatic EIR will be used to evaluate the impacts of the ECRG General Plan Update; future individual development projects would still need to complete project-specific CEQA reviews if necessary.
