NOTICE OF EXEMPTION
TO: ___ Office of Planning and Research FROM: Monterey
Peninsula Water Mgt. Dist.
1400 Tenth Street, Room 121 PO Box 85
Sacramento, CA 95814 Monterey,
CA 93942-0085
_XX_ County Clerk--County of Monterey
240 Church Street, PO Box 29
Salinas, CA 93902
Project
Title: Adoption of Ordinance No. 106 Amending Fees
for MPWMD Permits
Project
Location -- Specific: Monterey Peninsula Water Management District (MPWMD)
Project
Location -- City: service area of MPWMD
County: Monterey
Description of Nature,
Purpose and Beneficiaries of Project: The nature of proposed Ordinance No. 106 is to
amend MPWMD Rules and Regulations that govern fees for permit applications for
water distribution system and other permits.
The ordinance purpose is to ensure a better balance between revenues
from permit processing fees and the actual staff and legal costs incurred by
MPWMD to process permit applications.
Beneficiaries are rate-payers and tax payers within the MPWMD.
Name
of Public Agency Approving Project: Monterey Peninsula Water
Management District
Name
of Person or Agency Carrying Out Project: MPWMD
Exempt
Status: (check one)
_____ Ministerial (Sec. 15073)
_____ Declared Emergency (Sec. 15269 (a))
_____ Emergency Project (Sec. 15269 (b) and (c))
_____ Categorical Exemption.
__X_ Statutory Exemption, Guidelines 15273
(a) (1), Rates, Tolls, Fares and Charges
Reason(s) Why Project Is
Exempt: Ordinance No. 106 is for the purpose of
meeting operating expenses, including employee wage rates. Findings are included as part of Ordinance
No. 106; additional rationale and documentation are provided in staff
information packages of December 16, 2002 (second reading of Ordinance No. 105)
and January 30, 2003 (first reading of Ordinance No. 106). Ordinance approval would have no significant
effect on the environment and is not considered a “project” under CEQA.
Agency
Contact Person Area Code Telephone Extension
Henrietta
Stern 831
658-5621 n/a
________________________________ ____________________
Ernesto A. Avila Date
MPWMD General Manager
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