BILL NUMBER: AB 2245	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 15, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Smyth

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to add Section 21080.38 to the Public Resources Code,
relating to environmental quality.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2245, as amended, Smyth. Environmental quality: California
Environmental Quality Act: exemption: bikeways.
   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 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 also requires
a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a
project that may have a significant effect on the environment if
revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and
there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would
have a significant effect on the environment.
   CEQA exempts from its requirements specified projects and
activities.
   This bill would additionally exempt a  Class II  bikeway
project  , as defined for purposes of the Streets and Highways
Code,  undertaken by a city, county, or a city and county within
an existing road right-of-way.
   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 21080.38 is added to the Public Resources Code,
to read:
   21080.38.  This division does not apply to a project for 
Class II  bikeways, as  defined in  
specified in subdivision (b) of  Section 890.4 of the Streets
and Highways Code, undertaken by a city or county within an existing
road right-of-way.