BILL NUMBER: SB 783	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Dutton

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 21065 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to the environment.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 783, as introduced, Dutton. Environment: CEQA.
   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.
   CEQA defines various terms for the purposes of CEQA.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the term
"project" for the purposes of CEQA.
   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 21065 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   21065.  "Project" means an activity  which  
that  may cause either a direct physical change in the
environment, or a reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in
the environment, and  which   that  is any
of the following:
   (a) An activity directly undertaken by any public agency.
   (b) An activity undertaken by a person  which 
 who  is supported, in whole or in part, through contracts,
grants, subsidies, loans, or other forms of assistance from one or
more public agencies.
   (c) An activity that involves the issuance to a person of a lease,
permit, license, certificate, or other entitlement for use by one or
more public agencies.