BILL NUMBER: SB 584	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 20, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Nguyen

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to  amend   add  Section 
21061   21080.06  of the Public Resources Code,
relating to the environment.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 584, as amended, Nguyen.  California Environmental Quality
 Act.   Act: exemption. 
   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, as
defined, on a project 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.  The act 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 specified
projects from its provisions. 
   This bill would  make technical, nonsubstantive changes to
the definition of "environmental impact report."  
exempt from the requirements of CEQA a project for the resurfacing of
a city or county park, as specified. 
   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 21080.06 is added to the 
 Public Resources Code   , to read:  
   21080.06.  This division does not apply to a project for the
resurfacing of a city or county park. For purposes of this section,
"resurfacing" means changing the surface of a field while retaining
the original purpose of the park as a recreational facility,
including, but not limited to, changing a grass field to a baseball
field or an artificial turf field.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 21061 of the Public
Resources Code is amended to read:
   21061.  (a) "Environmental impact report" means a detailed
statement setting forth the matters specified in Sections 21100 and
21100.1. The information or data that is relevant to the statement
and is a matter of public record, or is generally available to the
public need not be repeated in its entirety in the statement, but may
be specifically cited as the source for conclusions stated in the
statement. The information or data shall be briefly described in the
statement. The relationship between the information or data to the
environmental impact report shall be indicated in the statement. The
source of the information and data shall be reasonably available for
inspection at a public place or public building. An environmental
impact report also includes any comments that are obtained pursuant
to Section 21104 or 21153, or that are required to be obtained
pursuant to this division.
   (b) An environmental impact report is an informational document
that, when its preparation is required by this division, shall be
considered by every public agency before its approval or disapproval
of a project. The purpose of an environmental impact report is to
provide public agencies and the public in general with detailed
information about the effect that a proposed project is likely to
have on the environment, to list ways in which the significant
effects of the proposed project might be minimized, and to indicate
alternatives to the proposed project.
   (c) In order to facilitate the use of environmental impact
reports, public agencies shall require that the reports contain an
index or table of contents and a summary. Failure to include the
index, table of contents, or summary shall not constitute a cause of
action pursuant to Section 21167.