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Sequoia Ecological Consulting, Inc. CalVTP Project-Specific Analysis and Addendum Augustin Bernal Community Park Fuel Reduction November 2025 4-59 4.8.1. Discussion 4.8.1.1. Impact ENG-1 The use of vehicles and mechanical equipment during initial treatment and treatment maintenance activities would result in the consumption of energy in the form of fossil fuels. The CalVTP PEIR identified a less than significant impact for the potential wasteful, inefficient, or unnecessary consumption of energy because the treatments analyzed do not involve grid-based energy use, rely primarily on short-term use of petroleum fuels for treatment activities, and would incorporate practices that minimize energy waste. The consumption of energy during implementation of the Project is within the scope of the PEIR because the types of activities, as well as the associated equipment and duration of proposed use, are consistent with those analyzed in the PEIR. Diesel and gasoline would be used temporarily to operate heavy-duty vehicles and mechanical equipment and transport personnel, tools, and livestock to, from, and within the project site. However, this use of petroleum fuels would be short-term and would not constitute a wasteful or inefficient use of energy. Additionally, the Project would aid in fire prevention and suppression by lowering wildfire risk and reducing the intensity of emergency responses, which typically involve rapid deployment of personnel and equipment from statewide or national sources and lead to inefficient energy use. There are no SPRs applicable to this impact. Overall, the project treatment activities would not result in wasteful, inefficient, or unnecessary consumption of energy, and impacts would be less than significant. This determination is consistent with the PEIR and would not constitute a substantially more severe significant impact than what was covered in the PEIR. The inclusion of approximately 93 acres of land that is outside the CalVTP treatable landscape in the proposed treatment area constitutes a change to the geographic extent presented in the PEIR. However, the existing environmental and regulatory conditions are essentially the same within and outside the treatable landscape, and the types of treatment activities and associated use of energy are of the same scale and scope as analyzed in the PEIR; therefore, the energy impact is also the same. No SPRs are applicable to this impact. This determination is consistent with the PEIR and would not constitute a substantially more severe significant impact than covered in the PEIR. 4.8.1.2. New Energy Resource Impacts The project proponent has considered the site-specific characteristics of the proposed treatment project both inside and outside the treatable landscape and determined they are consistent with the applicable regulatory and environmental conditions presented in the CalVTP PEIR (Sections 3.9.1, Regulatory Setting, and 3.9.2, Environmental Setting, in Volume II of the Final PEIR), since the added acreage would not expand the total annual acreage of 250,000 acres per year proposed for treatment under the PEIR. Therefore, the impacts of the proposed project are consistent with those considered in the PEIR. No changed