BILL NUMBER: SB 811 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY AUGUST 5, 2013
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 24, 2013
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 28, 2013
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 6, 2013
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 3, 2013
INTRODUCED BY Senator Lara
FEBRUARY 22, 2013
An act to add Section 103.1 to the Streets and Highways Code,
relating to transportation.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 811, as amended, Lara. State Highway Route 710.
Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has
full possession and control of the state highway system. Existing law
imposes various requirements for the development and implementation
of transportation projects.
This bill would impose various additional requirements on the
department, or on another agency, if that agency agrees to assume
responsibility as the lead agency with respect to the I-710
expansion corridor project in the County of Los
Angeles from State Highway Route 60 in East Los Angeles to Ocean
Boulevard in Long Beach. The bill would require the lead agency, in
consultation with all interested community organizations, to include,
within the environmental review process for the project,
alternatives to address the air quality, public health, and mobility
impacts the project will have on neighboring communities, including,
in its entirety, Community Alternative 7, as defined, as a complete
project alternative. The bill would require the final environmental
document approved by the lead agency to include an investment in
identified mitigation measures and community benefits for the
affected communities and the Los Angeles River. The bill would
require the lead agency to submit a report in that regard to the
Legislature at least 90 days prior to approving the final
environmental document for the project, and would require
the Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing and the Assembly
Committee on Transportation to hold a public joint hearing on the
proposed final environmental document at least 60 days prior to
approval of the final environmental document project
. The bill would make legislative findings and declarations.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 103.1 is added to the Streets and Highways
Code, to read:
103.1. (a) As used in this section, the following terms have the
following meanings:
(1) "I-710 expansion project" corridor
project " means the proposed program of improvements
to the State Highway Route 710 Corridor in the County of Los Angeles
within the State Highway Route 710 Corridor project study area,
which extends from State Highway Route 60 in East Los Angeles to
Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach. The I-710 expansion
corridor project does not include any extension of State
Highway Route 710 through South Pasadena from State Highway Route 10
to State Highway Route 210.
(2) "Community Alternative 7" means an alternative infrastructure
plan developed by a coalition of community partners, and submitted
for consideration to the I-710 expansion
corridor project's lead agency in response to the first draft
environmental review document. Community Alternative 7
includes mitigation measures and community benefits to address
existing and future public health concerns for the affected area.
document, and voted on by the I-710 EIR/EIS Project
Committee to be included in the recirculated draft EIR/Supplemental
EIS document.
(3) "Lead agency" means the department, unless another agency
agrees to assume responsibility as the lead agency for the I-710
expansion corridor project under the
California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with
Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code), in which case "lead
agency" means that other agency.
(4) "Los Angeles River" or "river" means the Los Angeles River
within the State Highway Route 710 Corridor project study area,
including the adjacent tributaries of Compton Creek and Rio Hondo.
(5) "Project committee" means the committee facilitated by the
project's lead agency as a part of the I-710 expansion
corridor project community participation
framework, and is comprised of elected officials from I-710
expansion corridor project corridor communities
and funding partner representatives who make recommendations to the
funding partners and the department on key assumptions and decisions
in the environmental review process. The funding partners include the
department, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation
Authority, the Gateway Cities Council of Governments, the Southern
California Association of Governments, the Ports of Los Angeles and
Long Beach, and the Interstate 5 Joint Powers Authority.
(b) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(1) The proposed I-710 expansion corridor
project is a project of national significance that is intended
to expand capacity on State Highway Route 710 in the County of Los
Angeles to accommodate the movement of freight from and to the Ports
of Los Angeles and Long Beach, thereby providing economic benefits in
the region and beyond. However, the I-710 expansion
corridor project, as proposed, will
may have adverse public health, air quality, and
quality-of-life impacts on residents residing near the corridor from
East Los Angeles to Long Beach.
(2) The proposed I-710 expansion corridor
project is a "goods movement" project that should be aligned
with the principles laid out in the 2007 Goods Movement Action Plan,
prepared by the California Environmental Protection Agency and the
Business, Transportation and Housing Agency. These principles
require that the project be developed in a way that provides
highlight the importance of goods movement projects
that provide local communities with benefits and improvements. This
supports the goal that one of the I-710 alternatives should provide
improvements to the communities housing the project. For the
I-710 expansion corridor project, these
improvements include all of may include, but
are not limited to, the following:
(A) River improvements including those that contribute to
revitalization of the river and green, active space along the river.
(B) Bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure; public transit
infrastructure and operations.
(C) Targeted hiring and job training related to the construction
and operation of the project.
(D) Improvements to conditions at sensitive sites, such as
schools, homes, and elderly care
facilities. facilities, and homeless care facilities.
(3) The proposed I-710 expansion corridor
project is a transportation project that should be
aligned consistent with the goals of Assembly
Bill 32 (Chapter (Ch. 488,
Statutes of Stats. 2006) and Senate Bill 375
(Chapter (Ch. 728, Statutes of
Stats. 2008) of reducing greenhouse gases by
reducing vehicle miles traveled and increasing public transit use and
active transportation.
(4) Community Alternative 7 includes these principles, goals, and
improvements. On January 31, 2013, the project committee for the
proposed I-710 expansion corridor
project voted to recommend that the lead agency consider Community
Alternative 7 in its entirety in the draft environmental review
document for the project.
(c) The lead agency, in consultation with all interested community
organizations, shall include, within the environmental review
process, alternatives to address the air quality, public health, and
mobility impacts that the I-710 expansion
corridor project will
could have on neighboring communities, and shall
identify measures to improve conditions presently affecting the
communities surrounding the existing Route 710 freeway.
communities. One of these alternatives shall be Community
Alternative 7, considered studied in
its entirety, as a complete project alternative.
(d) The final environmental document approved by the lead agency
for the I-710 expansion corridor
project shall include an investment in identified mitigation measures
and community benefits for where there are
impacts to the affected communities and the Los Angeles River.
(e) At least 90 days prior to approving the final environmental
document for the I-710 expansion corridor
project, the lead agency shall submit a report to the
Legislature describing the identified mitigation measures and
community benefits that will be included in the project and providing
evidence of meeting the requirements of this section. The report
shall be submitted pursuant to Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(f) At least 60 days prior to approval by the lead agency of the
final environmental document for the I-710 expansion project, the
Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing and the Assembly
Committee on Transportation shall hold a public joint hearing on the
proposed final environmental document.