Energy and Environment Committe

ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2026 - 3:30 PM EDWARD R. ROYBAL BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS SESSION ROOM ROOM 350, CITY HALL 200 NORTH SPRING STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 MEMBERS: COUNCILMEMBER ADRIN NAZARIAN, CHAIR COUNCILMEMBER KATY YAROSLAVSKY COUNCILMEMBER YSABEL JURADO COUNCILMEMBER NITHYA RAMAN COUNCILMEMBER IMELDA PADILLA (Michael Espinosa - Legislative Assistant - (213) 978-1064 or michael.espinosa@lacity.org) Submit written comment at LACouncilComment.com The audio for Committee meetings is broadcast live on the internet at https://clerk.lacity.gov/calendar. The Committee will take public comment from members of the public in-person only; there will be no public comment by teleconference. Additional information regarding Committee procedures provided at the end of this agenda. Spanish language interpretation is available at all City Council and Committee meetings. SE OFRECE SERVICIO DE TRADUCCIÓN AL ESPAÑOL EN TODAS LAS REUNIONES DEL CONSEJO Y COMITÉ MUNICIPAL. For interpretation services in additional languages and Sign Language Interpreters, at no cost, please contact clerk.interpretation@lacity.org or call (213) 978-1133 and provide the language desired, specific meeting, meeting date, and the number of people in the group. All requests should be submitted with as much advance notice as possible, preferably two business days prior to the meeting you wish to attend for additional language interpretation and five business days for Sign Language Interpretation. We will do our best to accommodate requests with shorter notice, but securing last-minute interpreters or captioners may not always be feasible. MULTIPLE AGENDA ITEM COMMENT GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT ITEM(S) (1) 25-1360 Environmental Impact Report (EIR) SCH No. 2023050366. Board of Water and Power Commissioners Resolution No. 026071, Statement of Overriding Considerations, Mitigation Monitoring Program, and related California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Findings; Department of Water and Power report and consideration of the CEQA Section 21151(c) Appeal filed by Sierra Club, Food and Water Watch, Communities for a Better Environment, Los Angeles Waterkeeper, Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles, and the Center for Biological Diversity of the action taken by the Board of Water and Power Commissioners on October 28, 2025 to adopt the Final EIR for the Scattergood Generating Station Units 1 and 2 Green Hydrogen- Ready Modernization Project. Fiscal Impact Statement: No Community Impact Statement: None submitted (2) 26-0190 Exemption, Board of Water and Power Commissioners and City Attorney reports, and Ordinance relative to updating regulatory programs and adding new types of environmental energy and renewable energy credit products available for purchase, sale, and exchange. Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted (3) 26-0191 Exemption, Board of Water and Power Commissioners and City Attorney reports, and Ordinance relative to the Large Power Transformers and Variable Shunt Reactors for Various Substations Project. Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted  TIME LIMIT FILE - APRIL 12, 2026 (LAST DAY FOR COUNCIL ACTION - MARCH 27, 2026) (4) 26-0192 Exemption and Board of Water and Power Commissioners report relative to the acceptance of two easement deeds with long-term indemnification from U.S. Borax Inc., located in Bishop, Inyo County, California, near Owens Lake, a portion of the Assessor Parcel Number (APN) 029-180-29. Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted TIME LIMIT FILE - APRIL 12, 2026 (LAST DAY FOR COUNCIL ACTION - MARCH 27, 2026) (5) 26-0220 City Clerk annual report relative to the Bradley Landfill Community Trust Fund for Fiscal Year 2023-24. Fiscal Impact Statement: No Community Impact Statement: None submitted (6) 26-0158 Motion (Nazarian - Hutt) relative to the status of the Hydration Station Initiative Program, and related matters. Community Impact Statement: None submitted (7) 26-0052 General Exemption, Board of Water and Power Commissioners and City Attorney reports, and Ordinance relative to quitclaiming a portion  of a water facility easement, located in the City and identified as Assessor’s Parcel No. 2706-007-035, to Sodnom Demberel and Batzoring Erdenechukhal, Wife and Husband, as Joint Tenants, at no cost to the Department of Water and Power. Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted (8) 06-2072-S4 Board of Water and Power Commissioners report relative to the Second Amendment to an agreement with Black and Veatch Corporation for the North Haiwee Dam Seismic Improvement Project. Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted TIME LIMIT FILE - APRIL 12, 2026 (LAST DAY FOR COUNCIL ACTION - MARCH 27, 2026) (9) 26-0056 Exemption, Board of Water and Power Commissioners and City Attorney reports, and Ordinance relative to the use of the competitive sealed bid proposal method for the award of one or more contracts to accelerate the implementation of the Plug into Power: Community Distributed Energy Resources Project. Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted (10) 26-0053 Exemption, Board of Water and Power Commissioners and City Attorney reports, and Ordinance relative to the utilization of an alternative project delivery method on a competitive sealed proposal basis and approval of project delivery criteria for the Encino Reservoir Floating Pilot Project.  Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted (11) 26-0051 General Exemption, Board of Water and Power Commissioners and City Attorney reports, and Ordinance relative to quitclaiming a public power facility easement, located in the City and identified as Assessor’s Parcel No. 2119-017-041, to Level Up Motors RE, LLC, a Kansas Limited Liability Company. Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted (12) 25-1380 General Exemption, Board of Water and Power Commissioners and City Attorney reports, and Ordinance relative to quitclaiming a water facility easement, located in the City and identified as Assessor’s Parcel No. 5571-001-004, to Jalmia Creek Investments, LLC, a California Limited Liability Company. Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted SUPPORTING MATERIALS Materials relating to items on the agenda are available on the Office of the City Clerk's Council File Management System found at https://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect by entering the Council File number (e.g., 00-0000) associated with the agenda item. PUBLIC INPUT AT CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE MEETINGS Members of the public who wish to speak on one or multiple items shall have an opportunity to speak up to one minute per item up to a total of two minutes for two or more agenda items. At regular meetings, members of the public shall also have an opportunity to speak up to one minute for general public comment on any matter within the subject-matter jurisdiction of the Committee. The Committee is not required to take general public comment at special meetings. The Committee may limit the total amount of time for public comment on any specific agenda item, on all agenda-items collectively, and/or on general public comment, based on the anticipated time required to hear from public speakers on any given or all agenda items, on the availability of Committee members and the need to maintain quorum, and on any other relevant factor. The Committee shall not discuss or take action relative to any general public comment except as explicitly permitted under the Brown Act. 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Telecommunications Relay Service is a telephone service that allows persons with hearing or speech disabilities to place and receive telephone calls. TRS is available in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. territories for local and/or long distance calls. TRS providers - generally telephone companies - are compensated for the costs of providing TRS from either a state or a federal fund. There is no cost to the TRS user. What forms of TRS are available? There are several forms of TRS, depending on the particular needs of the user and the equipment available: TRS includes: Text to Voice TIY-Based TRS; Speech-to-Speech Relay Service; Shared Non-English Language Relay Service; Captioned Telephone Relay Service; Internet Protocol Relay Service; and Video Relay Service. Please visit this site for detail descriptions, https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/telecommunications-relay-service-trs. Don't hang up! 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