Bill Text: CA SB154 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: California Environmental Quality Act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB154 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB154-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 154	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Huff

                        FEBRUARY 2, 2015

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 154, as introduced, Huff.  California Environmental Quality
Act.
   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.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the
definition of "environmental impact report."
   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 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; provided that  
21100.1. The  information or data  which  
that  is relevant to  such a   the 
statement and is a matter of public  record  
record,  or is generally available to the public need not be
repeated in its entirety in  such   the 
statement, but may be specifically cited as the source for
conclusions stated  therein; and provided further that such
  in the statement. The  information or data shall
be briefly described  , that its   in the
statement. The  relationship  between the information or
  data  to the environmental impact report shall be
indicated  , and that the   in the statement.
The  source  thereof   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  which   that  are
obtained pursuant to Section 21104 or 21153, or  which
  that  are required to be obtained pursuant to
this division. 
   An 
    (b)     An  environmental impact
report is an informational document  which  
that  , when its preparation is required by this division, shall
be considered by every public agency prior to 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  which  
that  a proposed project is likely to have on the environment;
to list ways in which the significant effects of  such a
  the proposed  project might be 
minimized;   minimized  and to indicate
alternatives to such a   the proposed 
project. 
   In 
    (c)     In  order to facilitate the
use of environmental impact reports, public agencies shall require
that such   the  reports contain an index
or table of contents and a summary. Failure to include  such
  the  index, table of contents, or summary shall
not constitute a cause of action pursuant to Section 21167.