Survey

Thank you for your interest and for your concerns about protecting Santa Cruz County. The CPBA Signatories are working with an Independent Environmental Consultant to identify protections and mitigation measures. The Signatories are interested in ensuring that community concerns around protections are given the proper review. Please submit the form below by August 7th, 2026.

Stakeholder Input for Protections

Framework Logic

Concern → Evidence → Risk Pathway → Requested Protection → Trigger → Accountability → Benefit

Purpose

The purpose of this form is to gather specific, evidence-based input to help shape potential community protections, monitoring commitments, and accountability measures related to the Hermosa Project.

This is not a general opinion form. Submissions should identify a specific concern, explain the basis for that concern, describe the potential pathway of impact, and recommend a practical protection, monitoring measure, trigger, or accountability provision that could be considered for inclusion in a Community Protections and Benefits Agreement.

Submissions should focus on practical, measurable, and implementable protections or benefits that can be monitored, verified, and incorporated into a formal agreement.

Section 1: Stakeholder Information

Section 3: Specific Concern or Opportunity

What specific concern, risk, gap, or opportunity are you identifying?

Section 5: Impact Pathway

Describe the impact pathway below.

Use this structure:
Source → Pathway → Receptor → Consequence

Example: Mine-related dust → wind transport during dry conditions → nearby residents / schools / workers → increased exposure to particulate matter or metals.

Section 7: Trigger and Response

Section 9: Community Support or Offset

Section 12: Final CPBA Recommendation. Complete this sentence: