Bill Text: CA SB1354 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: California Environmental Quality Act: project.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-08 - Referred to Com. on RLS. [SB1354 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB1354-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1354	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Dutton

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1354, as introduced, Dutton. California Environmental Quality
Act: project.
   Existing law, the California Environmental Quality Act, requires a
lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared by
contract, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact
report (EIR) on a project, as defined, 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 a technical, nonsubstantive change in the
provisions defining a project.
   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 may cause either a
direct physical change in the environment, or a reasonably
foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment, and which is
any of the following:
   (a) An activity directly undertaken by  any  
a  public agency.
   (b) An activity undertaken by a person which 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.