Level of Environmental Review
Projects may be exempt from CEQA if they are ministerial in nature, have been exempted by the California Congress through a statutory exemption, or categorical projects that do not have a significant impact on the environment. If the lead agency determines the project could have no significant environmental impacts after completing the initial study, no EIR will be necessary, but the lead agency must still prepare a Negative Declaration (Neg Dec) that discloses the impact analysis. If the project could have significant environmental impacts, but the lead agency has incorporated mitigation measures to lower those impacts to less than significant, no EIR will be necessary, but the lead agency must prepare a Mitigated Negative Declaration. Finally, if the lead agency determines the project may have significant environmental impacts, the lead agency must prepare an EIR.
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