BILL NUMBER: SB 1350	CHAPTERED  06/24/04

	CHAPTER  63
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JUNE 24, 2004
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JUNE 23, 2004
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JUNE 14, 2004
	PASSED THE SENATE  MAY 10, 2004

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Morrow

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2004

   An act to repeal Section 21084.2 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to environmental quality.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1350, Morrow.  California Environmental Quality Act:
guidelines: steam sterilization.
   The existing California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires
a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared by
contract, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact
report on a project, as defined, 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.  CEQA requires the Office of Planning and Research,
when the office revises its CEQA guidelines after January 1, 1996,
to recommend changes to those guidelines that would determine if
specified regulations apply to the treatment of medical waste by
steam sterilization and clarifying revisions to the guidelines to
expressly state that the treatment is subject to a categorical
exemption under specified provisions of the CEQA guidelines.  CEQA
requires the office, if it determines that those provisions of the
guidelines do not categorically exempt that treatment, and if such an
exemption is consistent with existing law, to recommend a
categorical exemption for the treatment in its recommended revision
of the guidelines.
   This bill would repeal those provisions.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 21084.2 of the Public Resources Code is
repealed.