Sentence examples for negative declaration from inspiring English sources

The documents for the restoration project include a mitigated negative declaration, which declares that the project will not have significant environmental impacts.

A Negative Declaration — or Neg Dec for short — is basically a document that says that the project will have no adverse effect.

In an unpublished opinion, the California Court of Appeal reversed a trial court decision that upheld a negative declaration prepared pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) for the Highland Park Transit Village Project in Los Angeles, a residential development composed of 20 condominiums and a 50-unit building for affordable housing.

While state law requires environmental impact statements to be compiled before some large developments can proceed, the city was able to avoid such a study in February when the Industrial Development Agency issued what is known as a negative declaration, in effect saying there was no possibility that a planned project would have a significant negative effect on the area.

But the suit seeks to annul the negative declaration by the Industrial Development Agency, determine that the issuance of the declaration was "a violation of law, arbitrary and capricious" and force the agency to prepare a new or supplemental environmental impact statement.

Since the location of the mutation is known, we took a liberal approach to identify candidate genes in the target region to avoid making a false negative declaration (i.e., rather committing a Type I than Type II error).

"We obviously want to maintain normal relations, but it is very difficult when the president continues in his very negative declarations and his irresponsible declarations about my country," Mr. Noriega told reporters in Washington.

Almost overnight, his negative declarations about education changed in tone, and he went silent.

"We had negative declarations from each of the individuals in the group and the reverend himself," he said.

Mitigated negative declarations are filed if the project could have a significant impact on the environment, but could be reduced if actions are taken.

If all the findings are negative, then the declaration is made.