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1 Sequoia Ecological Consulting,inc. CaIVTP Project-Specific Analysis and Addendum Augustin Bernal Community Park Fuel Reduction C-2 \:1111 November 2025 Public Resources Code section 21061.1 defines "feasible"to mean "capable of being accomplished in a successful manner within a reasonable period of time, taking into account economic, environmental, social, legal, and technological factors" (see also Citizens of Goleta Valley v. Bd. of Supervisors [1990] 52 Cal.3d 553, 565). With respect to a project for which significant impacts are not avoided or substantially lessened, a public agency, after adopting proper findings, may nevertheless approve the project if the agency first adopts a Statement of Overriding Considerations setting forth the specific reasons why the agency found that the project's "benefits" rendered "acceptable" its"unavoidable adverse environmental effects" (CEQA Guidelines,Sections 15093, 15043, subd. (b); see also Pub. Resources Code, Section 21081, subd. (b)). The California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection(the Board) adopted Findings and a Statement of Overriding Considerations on December 30, 2019. Here, as explained in the Board's Findings, the Draft Program EIR (Draft PEIR, and the Final PEIR (collectively, the "PEIR"), the CaIVTP would result in significant and unavoidable environmental effects to Aesthetics; Air Quality; Archaeological, Historical, and Tribal Cultural Resources; Biological Resources; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Transportation; and Public Services, Utilities, and Service Systems. For reasons set forth in the Board's Statement of Overriding Considerations, however, the Board determined that overriding economic, social, and other considerations outweigh the significant, unavoidable effects of the CaIVTP. When a responsible agency approves a vegetation treatment project using a within the scope finding for all environmental impacts, it must adopt its own CEQA findings, pursuant to Section 15091 of the CEQA Guidelines and, if needed, a statement of overriding considerations, pursuant to Section 15093 of the CEQA Guidelines (see CEQA Guidelines Section 15096[h]). According to case law, a responsible agency's findings need only address environmental impacts "within the scope of the responsible agency's jurisdiction" (Riverwatch v. Olivenhain Municipal Water District [2009] 170 Cal.App.4th 1186, 1202). Although each responsible agency must adopt its own findings, such agencies have the option of reusing, incorporating, or adapting all or part of the findings adopted by the Board for the CaIVTP PEIR to meet the agency's own requirements to the extent the findings are applicable to the proposed vegetation treatment project.The following document sets forth the required findings for an agency's project-specific approval that relies on and implements the CaIVTP PEIR. The Project Proponent adopts these findings to document its exercise of its independent judgment regarding the potential environmental effects analyzed in the PEIR and to document its reasoning for approving the vegetation treatment project under the CaIVTP in spite of these effects. BACKGROUND AND PROJECT DESCRIPTION PD-3: Project Description The proposed project would create and maintain a 162-acre reduced fuel zone in the San Francisco East Bay within and adjacent to the Augustin Bernal Community Park, located in the high fire hazard severity zone on Pleasanton Ridge in Alameda County, California (Figures C-1 and C-2; CAL FIRE 2022).The Project would be implemented on