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SAVE STRAWBERRY CANYON
Save Strawberry Canyon is a citizens’ group that seeks to preserve and protect the watershed lands and cultural landscape of Strawberry Canyon. Save Strawberry Canyon was formed out of the urgent need to take action in response to the threat of intrusive, inappropriate development on the Canyon lands. Strawberry Canyon, opposite the Golden Gate, is a unique link to the East Bay Regional Park District lands and, by its streams and views, to San Francisco Bay. The Canyon itself with its streamside vegetation, oak-bay woodlands, grasslands, and surrounding slopes, is arich repository of wildlife directly adjacent to the dense urban populations of the UC Berkeley Campus and the cities of Berkeley and Oakland. Save Strawberry Canyon seeks to inform the public about the impacts of proposed developments, to encourage location of such developments to more suitable sites, and to promote better public access to the beautiful Canyon with its wildlife and scenic resources. — Mission Statement
April 28, 2010
Kim Abbott, Document Manager
Re: Proposed Seismic Life Safety Phase 2B Project vis-à-vis National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA)/California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Dear Mr. Abbott: Requested herewith is clarification regarding LBNL's Environmental Assessment (EA) for the subject project. We believe the first announcement of its preparation was in late November of 2008. Save Strawberry Canyon is now concerned that the NEPA review has not proceeded in a timely way so as to be concurrent with the requisite CEQA review of this project. It is our understanding that the Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) for this project is scheduled to go before the Regents of the University of California for CEQA certification at its meeting in May. We are concerned that the Regents may then approve the project for immediate construction before a full federal NEPA review has been completed. Please assure that no aspect of the subject project will commence until federal environmental review in full compliance with NEPA has been completed. Thank you for your attention given to this matter. We shall look forward to your reply.
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