Bill Text: CA AB2778 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: California Environmental Quality Act: lead agency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - Died at Desk. [AB2778 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2778-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2778	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


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  which
  that  has the principal responsibility for
carrying out or approving a project  which  
that  may have a significant effect upon the environment.