Bill Text: CA AB2417 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: recycled water pipelines.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-18 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2417 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2417-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2417	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nazarian

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 21000 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to environmental quality.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2417, as introduced, Nazarian. Environmental quality.
   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 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. CEQA makes various
legislative findings regarding environmental quality.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
legislative findings.
   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 21000 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   21000.   (a)    The Legislature finds and
declares  as follows   the following  :

   (a) 
    (1)  The maintenance of a quality environment for the
people of this state now and in the future is a matter of statewide
concern. 
   (b) 
    (2)  It is necessary to provide a high-quality
environment that at all times is healthful and pleasing to the senses
and intellect of  man   people  . 

   (c) 
    (3)  There is a need to understand the relationship
between the maintenance of high-quality ecological systems and the
general welfare of the people of the state, including their enjoyment
of the natural resources of the state. 
   (d) The capacity of the environment is limited, and it is the
intent of the Legislature that the government of the state take
immediate steps to identify any critical thresholds for the health
and safety of the people of the state and take all coordinated
actions necessary to prevent such thresholds being reached. 

   (e) 
    (4)  Every citizen has a responsibility to contribute to
the preservation and enhancement of the environment. 
   (f) 
    (5)  The interrelationship of policies and practices in
the management of natural resources and waste disposal requires
systematic and concerted efforts by public and private interests to
enhance environmental quality and to control environmental pollution.

   (g) 
    (b)     (1)    It is the
intent of the Legislature that all agencies of the state government
 which   that  regulate activities of
private individuals, corporations, and public agencies  which
  that  are found to affect the quality of the
environment, shall regulate  such   those 
activities so that major consideration is given to preventing
environmental damage, while providing a decent home and satisfying
living environment for every Californian. 
   (2) The capacity of the environment is limited, and it is the
intent of the Legislature that the government of the state take
immediate steps to identify critical thresholds for the health and
safety of the people of the state and take all coordinated actions
necessary to prevent those thresholds from being reached.