DEIR Comments

As a public service, CLAIM has taken on the immense task of hosting the IMMC DEIR comments online for all to use. The City of Grass Valley has not posted these comments online. The City provided a CD with the files on it which we have used to create this archive. The comments are not well organized, with many duplicates and numerous comments collected together in huge PDF files. Many thanks to Don P. and Barb M. for doing the vast majority of the index work. Let us know if you find a broken link or other improvement at CLAIM.

The comments that we received from our volunteers, other local non-profits, and several government agencies are indexed first. Following these comments are the remainder of the comments that were received by the City. There were several "comments" which were not targeted at the DEIR but which were typically requests for an extension of the review period. These are not counted. Of the approximately 188 unique comments submitted, over 80% were critical of the DEIR and / or the project.

Comments from CLAIM-GV

There are 5 files which constitute the entire comment package, the comment letter and 4 attachments.
CLAIM Comment Letter   Attachment1   Attachment2   Attachment3   Attachment4

Comments from Government Agencies

• CA Dept of Fish and Game
• CA Dept of Parts and Recreation
• City of Grass Valley, Engineering Department
• Northern Sierra Air Quality Management District
• Nate Beason, District 1 Supervisor, Nevada County

Comments from other local organizations

• Sierra Fund
• STAinNC
• Banner Mountain Homeowners Association
• Sierra Nevada Group of Sierra Club
• Bohemia Area Residents Committee
• Wolf Creek Community Alliance 1
• Wolf Creek Community Alliance 2
• Audubon Society
• Earth Justice Ministries

Comments from CLAIM-GV volunteers

These comments have been labeled based on the primary section or sections which were commented upon by the authors. In several cases authors have provided comments on most or all of the DEIR and these are noted as "EntireDEIR".

• Ralph Silberstein, entire DEIR
• Pete Barry, entire DEIR
• Suzanne Smith, entire DEIR
• Virginia Moran, entire DEIR
• Bob Bogart, General Comments on DEIR, several specific comments and Mitigation Inadequacies
• Tom Grundy, Ceramics plant plus Energy and Utilities and others
• Laurie Oberholtzer, Land Use, Housing, Traffic
• Marisha Finkler, Air Quality and Water Quality
• G & S Delgado, All Impacts are reviewed
• Anne Wallace, Biological Resources
• Geoff Thornton, Energy
• Kent Pernwarden, Inadequcy of Traffic Analysis
• Thomas C. Mooers, General Comments
• Greg Martin, Hazardous Materials
• David Sahuc, Noise
• Deni Silberstein, Storm Water
• Gary Griffith, entire DEIR
• Section 4.5 Geology
• Sally Bartindale, Aquatic Life

All Comments not provided in the above sections

NOTE: Comments were provided to us by the City of Grass Valley. In many cases a number of comments were included in one large PDF file. We cannot split these PDF's apart, so we have provided page numbers for you, as a reference inside the PDF. Some of these collected PDF's are very large and we do not recommend that anyone with a dial-up internet connection attempt to download these files. The largest PDF file is: immc_deir_comments_012109.PDF at 17MB.

In many cases comments are repeated since they were submitted via email and by hard copy. We have tried to eliminate the duplicates.

If you cannot find your comment or you have corrections or suggestions about making this index more valuable, please send us an email