California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) has completed a Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR plus Appendices Appendices A-D, Appendix E ) for an updated Campus Master Plan, including a Utility Master Plan (Divided into smaller files... Table of Contents, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6 ). The Master Plan provides for facilities and improvements to accommodate the gradual growth in student enrollment, projected to reach 31,000 full-time equivalent students within the horizon year of 2020, while furthering CSULB’s aims to achieve greater distinction with strategic priorities of student success, academic quality, service excellence, and campus life and environment.

The FEIR concludes that the project’s potentially significant impacts can be reduced to less than significant levels as they relate to traffic at five intersections on the Atherton Corridor; noise from athletic events at a proposed soccer facility; water use; construction-related traffic, parking, diesel emissions, and solid waste generation; and, archaeological resources. The project will result in remaining significant impacts related to project-specific and cumulative vehicular traffic on one segment of Interstate 405 and at two study intersections; project-specific and cumulative air quality impact from vehicular emissions; cumulative contribution to solid and hazardous waste disposal at regional landfills; and short-term construction-related project-specific and cumulative air quality, noise, and vibration.

The FEIR will be presented to the California State University Board of Trustees for approval May 13-14, 2008.