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Sequoia Ecological Consulting, Inc. CalVTP Project-Specific Analysis and Addendum Augustin Bernal Community Park Fuel Reduction November 2025 1-4 The CalVTP PEIR identified 20.3 million acres across the State of California within 31-million-acre State Responsibility Areas (SRAs) that may be appropriate for vegetation treatments as part of the CalVTP. The PEIR calls this the “treatable landscape” or “treatable areas.” CalVTP recognizes that the treatable landscape represents areas suitable for CalVTP vegetation treatments, but projects would not necessarily occur in every location within the treatable landscape. The location and geographic extent of projects would be determined based on several factors, including environmental constraints and treatment objectives, which are analyzed for the proposed project within this PSA. Of the approximately 162-acre project footprint, approximately 69.5 acres are located within the CalVTP treatable landscape, and approximately 92.4 acres are outside of the defined treatable landscape (Figure 3). An Addendum to an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) is appropriate where a previously certified EIR has been prepared and some changes or revisions to the project are proposed, or the circumstances surrounding the project have changed, but none of the changes or revisions would result in new or substantially more severe significant environmental impacts, consistent with California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Section 21166 and CEQA Guidelines Sections 15162, 15163, 15164, and 15168. In this case, there are no changed circumstances, but the proposed revision or change in the Project, compared to the PEIR, is the inclusion of areas of the scattered sections of Local Responsibility Area (LRA) outside of the CalVTP treatable landscape. The PSA checklist (refer to Section 3.0, Environmental Checklist) includes the criteria to support an Addendum to the CalVTP PEIR for the inclusion of proposed treatment areas outside the CalVTP treatable landscape. The checklist evaluates each resource in terms of whether the later treatment project, including the “changed condition” of additional geographic area, would result in significant impacts that would be substantially more severe than those covered in the CalVTP PEIR and/or would result in any new impacts that were not covered in the PEIR. This document serves as both a PSA and an Addendum to the CalVTP PEIR to provide CEQA compliance for the proposed vegetation treatments within and outside of the treatable landscape. The project-specific mitigation monitoring and reporting program (MM RP), which includes the CalVTP standard project requirements (SPRs) and mitigation measures (MMs) applicable to the proposed project, is presented in Attachment A. The SPRs identified in the MMRP have been incorporated into the proposed vegetation treatments as a standard part of treatment design and implementation of the proposed Project. 1.2. California Environmental Quality Act The CalVTP PEIR evaluated the potential environmental effects of implementing qualifying vegetation treatments to reduce the risk of wildfire within the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s (CAL FIRE) SRA.