Bill Text: CA SB834 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Environmental quality: the Sustainable Environmental

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-26 - Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [SB834 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: SB 834	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Huff

                        JANUARY 6, 2014

   An act to add Section 21080.38 to the Public Resources Code,
relating to environmental quality, and declaring the urgency thereof,
to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 834, as introduced, Huff. California Environmental Quality Act:
exemption: retooling of manufacturing facilities.
   (1) The California Environmental Quality Act 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. 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.
   This bill would exempt from the requirements of the act a project
or an activity related to the retooling or alteration for
manufacturing purposes of an existing manufacturing facility within
its existing footprint. Because a lead agency would be required to
make a determination on the applicability of this exemption, the bill
would impose a state-mandated local program.
   (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse
local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
   (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately
as an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 21080.38 is added to the Public Resources Code,
to read:
   21080.38.  This division does not apply to a project or an
activity related to the retooling or alteration for manufacturing
purposes of an existing manufacturing facility within its existing
footprint.
  SEC. 2.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because a
local agency or school district has the authority to levy service
charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or
level of service mandated by this act, within the meaning of Section
17556 of the Government Code.
  SEC. 3.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   To facilitate the retooling or alteration of existing
manufacturing facilities thereby creating and retaining manufacturing
jobs in the state, it is necessary for this measure to take effect
immediately.