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City of San Leandro 880 Doolittle Drive Industrial Project 1-8 1.3 Scope and Content This EIR addresses impacts identified by the Initial Study to be potentially significant. The following issues were found to include potentially significant impacts and have been studied in the EIR:  Greenhouse Gas Emissions  Hazards and Hazardous Materials  Noise  Transportation In preparing the EIR, use was made of pertinent City policies and guidelines, certified EIRs and adopted CEQA documents, and other background documents. A full reference list is contained in Section 7, References and Preparers. The alternatives section of the EIR (Section 5) was prepared in accordance with Section 15126.6 of the CEQA Guidelines and focuses on a range of reasonable alternatives that are capable of eliminating or reducing significant adverse effects associated with the project while feasibly attaining most of the basic project objectives. In addition, the alternatives section identifies the “environmentally superior” alternative among the alternatives assessed. The alternatives evaluated include the CEQA-required “No Project” alternative and two alternative development scenarios for the project site. The level of detail contained throughout this EIR is consistent with the requirements of CEQA and applicable court decisions. Section 15151 of the CEQA Guidelines provides the standard of adequacy on which this document is based. The CEQA Guidelines state: An EIR should be prepared with a sufficient degree of analysis to provide decisionmakers with information which enables them to make a decision which intelligently takes account of environmental consequences. An evaluation of the environmental effects of the proposed project need not be exhaustive, but the sufficiency of an EIR is to be reviewed in light of what is reasonably feasible. Disagreement among experts does not make an EIR inadequate, but the EIR should summarize the main points of disagreement among the experts. The courts have looked not for perfection, but for adequacy, completeness, and a good faith effort at full disclosure. 1.4 Issues Not Studied in Detail in the EIR Table 1-2 lists the environmental resource areas that were addressed in the Initial Study (Appendix A). A full analysis of each resource area listed in Table 1-2 can be found in Appendix A. As indicated in the Initial Study, there is no substantial evidence that the proposed project may have a significant impact on the environment in any of these issue areas, either with or without mitigation, depending on the specific impact.