SB 739, as introduced, Calderon. Environmental quality.
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 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.
Existing law defines “local agency” for the purposes of CEQA.
This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that definition.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 21062 of the Public Resources Code is
2amended to read:
“Local agency” meansbegin delete anyend deletebegin insert aend insert public agency other than
2a state agency, board, or commission. For purposes of this division
3a redevelopment agency and a local agency formation commission
4are local agencies, and neither is a state agency, board, or
5commission.
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