BILL NUMBER: SB 1226	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Dutton

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act to amend Section 21080.21 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to environmental quality.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1226, as introduced, Dutton. Environmental quality: California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA): pipelines: exemption.
   The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead
agency to prepare, or cause to be prepared, 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, as defined, or to adopt a
negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that
effect. CEQA provides some exemptions from its requirements for
specified projects, including for a project of less than one mile in
length within a public street or highway or another public
right-of-way for the installation of a new pipeline or the
maintenance, repair, restoration, reconditioning, relocation,
replacement, removal, or demolition of an existing pipeline.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 21080.21 of the Public Resources Code is
amended to read:
   21080.21.  This division does not apply to  any 
 a  project of less than one mile in length within a public
street or highway or any other public right-of-way for the
installation of a new pipeline or the maintenance, repair,
restoration, reconditioning, relocation, replacement, removal, or
demolition of an existing pipeline. For purposes of this section,
"pipeline" includes subsurface facilities but does not include
 any   a  surface facility related to the
operation of the underground facility.