AB 756, as introduced, Melendez. Environmental quality: California Environmental Quality Act.
The 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.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 21100 of the Public Resources Code is
2amended to read:
(a) begin deleteAll lead agencies end deletebegin insertA lead agency end insertshall prepare, or
4cause to be prepared by contract, and certify the completion of, an
5environmental impact report onbegin delete anyend deletebegin insert aend insert projectbegin delete whichend deletebegin delete they proposeend delete
6begin insert
that it proposesend insert to carry out or approve that may have a significant
P2 1effect on the environment. Whenever feasible, a standard format
2shall be used forbegin insert anend insert environmental impactbegin delete reportsend deletebegin insert reportend insert.
3(b) The environmental impact report shall include a detailed
4statement setting forth all of the following:
5(1) All significant effects on the environment of the proposed
6project.
7(2) In a separate section:
8(A) Any significant effect
on the environment that cannot be
9avoided if the project is implemented.
10(B) Any significant effect on the environment that would be
11irreversible if the project is implemented.
12(3) Mitigation measures proposed to minimize significant effects
13on the environment, including, but not limited to, measures to
14reduce the wasteful, inefficient, and unnecessary consumption of
15energy.
16(4) Alternatives to the proposed project.
17(5) The growth-inducing impact of the proposed project.
18(c) The report shall also contain a statementbegin delete briefly indicatingend delete
19begin insert that briefly
statesend insert
the reasons for determining that various effects
20on the environment of a project are not significant and consequently
21have not been discussed in detail in the environmental impact
22report.
23(d) For purposes of this section, any significant effect on the
24environment shall be limited to substantial, or potentially
25substantial, adverse changes in physical conditions which exist
26within the area as defined in Section 21060.5.
27(e) Previously approved land use documents, including, but not
28limited to, general plans, specific plans, and local coastal plans,
29may be used in cumulative impact analysis.
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