Bill Text: CA AB1273 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: levee repairs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-07-11 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Failed passage. [AB1273 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 1273 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Gallagher |
February 17, 2017 |
An act to add and repeal Section 21080.12 of the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1273, as amended, Gallagher.
California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: levee repairs.
Existing law, 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, as defined, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect, unless the project is exempt from the act.
CEQA provides for various exemptions from the requirements of the act.
This bill would, until July 1, 2028, 2023, exempt from
the requirements of CEQA repairs of critical levees of the State Plan of Flood Control within an existing levee footprint to meet standards of public health and safety. safety, except as otherwise provided in a specified regulation. The bill would require the lead agency to take certain actions regarding the repairs.
Digest Key
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 21080.12 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:21080.12.
(a) This division does not apply to the repair of critical levees of the State Plan of Flood Control specified pursuant to Section 8361 of the Water Code within an existing levee footprint to meet standards of public health and(b) For purposes of undertaking urgent levee repairs, the lead agency shall do all of the following:
(1) Conduct outreach efforts in the vicinity of the project to ensure public awareness of the proposed repair work prior to approval of the project.
(2) To the extent feasible, comply with standard construction practices, including, but not limited to, any rules, guidelines, or regulations adopted by the applicable air district for construction equipment and for control of particulate matter emissions.
(3) To the extent feasible, use equipment powered by emulsified diesel fuel, electricity, natural gas, or ultralow sulfur diesel as an alternative to conventional diesel-powered construction equipment.
(c) This section shall become
inoperative on July 1, 2028, 2023, and, as of January 1, 2029, 2024, is repealed.
