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• • COUNCIL MINUTES OCTOBER 14, 2002 • It is the City's document and the City has a responsibility to ensure, to the best of its ability, that it is complete and accurate. 2. City approves the EAW for distribution. 3. There is a list of agencies to which the EAW must be distributed. The project proposer will make all the necessary copies and distribute them to the required agencies. We will have a copy available in the library in City Hall. 4. Availability of the EAW is published in the EQB Monitor. City provides press release to newspaper. 5. Thirty -day public comment period begins on day of publication in EQB Monitor. 6. After comment period closes, City determines if it has enough information to make a determination. • If not, it can postpone the decision for 30 more days: to gather information. 7. If City has sufficient information, it should make a determination within 30 days of the close of the comment period. • • A negative declaration means there ' .be no significant environmental effects from the project and an EIS is not necessary. A positive declaration means an EIS s ecessary. 8. The City provides its decision within % ` ys-to the distribution list and everyone who submitted a comment. 9. The City must respond to all substantive coents and distribute the responses. City Planner Smyser advised distribution of the EAW. mending Council approve Resolution 02-142 approving Councilmember Carlson stated she had questions and apologized for not having these more organized into categories, but she had just received the document on Wednesday. She stated if she had the earlier verson she could have asked the questions Wednesday. She expressed concern as to whether or not the document was complete. On page 36, she noted, the regulating government unit certifies that information contained in this document is accurate and complete to the best of their knowledge -- and secondly, that the EAW describes a complete project, there are no other projects, stages or components other than those described in this document. She felt this raised a number of questions. Councilmember Carlson stated on page 1, "Reason for the EAW Preparation," it is marked "proposer volunteered" with a note indicating that a citizen petition was submitted to the EQB Board on May 10, 2002. The information that the Citizens' Environmental Quality Board application had that the 12