BILL NUMBER: AB 880	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member V. Manuel Pérez

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to amend Section 21159.1 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to the environmental quality.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 880, as introduced, V. Manuel Pérez. Environmental quality:
CEQA: expedited environmental review.
   The 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 (EIR) 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. CEQA authorizes the
use of a focused environmental impact report for a project that
consists solely of the installation of pollution control equipment or
for a project that consists solely of the installation of that
equipment or other components in compliance with the California
Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the
provision of the act that authorizes the use of a focused
environmental impact report.
   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 21159.1 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   21159.1.  (a) A focused environmental impact report may be
utilized if a project meets all of the following requirements:
   (1) The project consists solely of the installation of either of
the following:
   (A) Pollution control equipment required by a rule or regulation
of an agency listed in subdivision (a) of Section 21159.4 and 
the  other components necessary to complete the installation of
that equipment.
   (B) Pollution control equipment and other components necessary to
complete the installation of that equipment that reduces greenhouse
gases  , as  required by a rule or regulation of an agency
listed in Section 21159.4 pursuant to the California Global Warming
Solutions Act of 2006 (Division 25.5 (commencing with Section 38500)
of the Health and Safety Code).
   (2) The agency  certified   certifies 
an environmental impact report on the rule or regulation or 
reviewed   reviews  it pursuant to a certified
regulatory program, and, in either case, the review  included
  includes  an assessment of growth inducing
impacts and cumulative impacts of, and alternatives to, the project.
   (3) The environmental review required by paragraph (2) 
was   is  completed within five years of
certification of the focused environmental impact report.
   (4) An environmental impact report is not required pursuant to
Section 21166.
   (b) The discussion of significant effects on the environment in
the focused environmental impact report shall be limited to
project-specific potentially significant effects on the environment
of the project that were not discussed in the environmental analysis
of the rule or regulation required pursuant to subdivision (a) of
Section 21159. A discussion of growth-inducing impacts or cumulative
impacts shall not be required in the focused environmental impact
report, and the discussion of alternatives shall be limited to a
discussion of alternative means of compliance, if any, with the rule
or regulation.