To: Board of Supervisors
From: Planning and Building Department
Agenda Section: Public Hearing
SUBJECT:
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Samoa Peninsula Wastewater Project (SPWP) Environmental Impact Report (EIR) Certification, Project Approval and Local Coastal Program Amendment Initiation; Record Number PLN-2020-16642
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Open the public hearing, receive and consider the staff report, and accept public comment;
2. Close the public hearing and deliberate;
3. Adopt Resolution No. _____ (Attachment 1) Making Findings of Fact, Certifying the Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) for the SPWP (Attachment 3), adopting the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (Attachment 2), approving the SPWP, and initiating amendments to the Humboldt Bay Area Plan that are necessary to allow the SPWP to proceed;
4. Direct Planning and Building staff to file a Notice of Determination with the Humboldt County Clerk and State Clearinghouse; and
5. Direct Planning and Building staff to prepare amendments to the Humboldt Bay Area Plan necessary for the SPWP to proceed.
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SOURCE OF FUNDING:
282-3109, State Water Resources Control Board Planning Grant Agreement No. D16-04034 in the amount of $550,000.
DISCUSSION:
This item involves construction of a proposed wastewater system to serve existing development on the Samoa Peninsula outside the Town of Samoa. The project will reduce water quality impacts from existing septic systems which currently discharge into the high groundwater in the area. It will benefit residents in the towns of Fairhaven, and Finntown, Samoa Peninsula Union School, existing industrial uses, the Samoa boat ramp and RV park, and smaller commercial operations located on or near the City of Eureka Samoa Field.
The wastewater project aligns with and adds value to the planning for improvements to the Town of Samoa wastewater treatment plant and efforts by the Humboldt Bay Harbor Recreation and ...
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