California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2778

Introduced by Assembly Member Salas

February 19, 2016

An act to amend Section 21067 of the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2778, as introduced, Salas. California Environmental Quality Act: lead agency.

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 defines lead agency to mean the public agency that has the principal responsibility for carrying out or approving a project that may have a significant effect upon the environment.

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 1.  

Section 21067 of the Public Resources Code is
amended to read:

21067.  

“Lead agency” means the public agency begin delete which end delete begin insert that end insert has
the principal responsibility for carrying out or approving a project
begin delete which end delete begin insert that end insert may have a significant effect upon the environment.