BILL NUMBER: SB 1415	CHAPTERED  09/27/02

	CHAPTER  970
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 27, 2002
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 26, 2002
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 20, 2002
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 19, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 15, 2002

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Perata

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2002

   An act to add and repeal Section 29031.1 of the Public Utilities
Code, relating to the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1415, Perata.  San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District.
   Existing law authorizes the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit
District to acquire, construct, own, operate, control, or use
rights-of-way, rail lines, bus lines, stations, platforms, switches,
yards, terminals, parking lots, and any and all other facilities
necessary or convenient for rapid transit service within or partly
without the district, as specified. The existing California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined,
to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of,
an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry
out or approve that may have a significant effect on the
environment, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the
project will not have that effect. The act exempts from the
requirement specified discretionary projects, including specific
actions necessary to prevent or mitigate an emergency.
   The bill would include in those exempt actions, until June 30,
2005, the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District's seismic
retrofit work on any existing structures or facilities, as specified,
necessary for rapid transit service if the district conducts 3
workshops and other outreach efforts to ensure public awareness of
the proposed seismic retrofit work prior to commencement of
construction.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 29031.1 is added to the Public Utilities Code,
to read:
   29031.1.  (a) If the district conducts three workshops and other
outreach efforts to ensure public awareness of the proposed seismic
retrofit work prior to commencement of construction, the district's
seismic retrofit work on any existing structures or facilities
contained in the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
Seismic Retrofit Program Phase I-Segment I necessary for rapid
transit service shall be considered to be an action necessary to
prevent or mitigate an emergency, for the purposes of paragraph (4)
of subdivision (b) of Section 21080 of the Public Resources Code.
   (b) This section shall become inoperative on June 30, 2005, and,
as of January 1, 2006, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2006, deletes or
extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.