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Draft Environmental Impact Report Now Available for GSNR’s Forest Resiliency Project
On October 22, 2024, the draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for GSNR’s proposed forest resiliency project was officially released by the project’s lead agency, Golden State Finance Authority (GSFA) for public review and comment. GSFA has provided a 60-day public review period for the DEIR with the review period beginning October 22, 2024 and ending on December 23, 2024. The GSFA Executive Committee will consider adding additional time to the comment period at their November 6 meeting.
The DEIR is a comprehensive document that assesses the potential environmental impacts of the project. The public review period allows individuals and organizations to provide feedback on the project’s potential impacts and proposed mitigation measures.
You can find the DEIR, along with the appendices and translations, on GSNR’s website here and GSFA’s website here.
To inform the public about the report, staff are conducting outreach through a number of methods. Approximately two weeks prior to the release of the DEIR, staff provided notification of the impending GSNR release on the GSNR and GSFA websites and sent out an email notification to interested parties. Following the DEIR release, in addition to the formal/legal notices required by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), staff sent out email notification, posted information on the GSNR and GSFA websites, created social media posts and flyers for distribution, sent out a press release, and placed print copies at various locations in project communities.
GSFA is also in the process of hosting public meetings to inform the community regarding the DEIR and how to participate in the review process.