Bill Text: CA AB431 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: projects in Town of Paradise and Butte County.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2019-02-15 - Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. [AB431 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB431-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 431 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Gallagher |
February 07, 2019 |
An act to add Sections 21080.50 and 21080.51 to the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 431, as introduced, Gallagher.
California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: projects in Town of Paradise and Butte County.
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.
This bill would exempt from CEQA projects or activities undertaken in the Town of Paradise related to the construction or
operation of a publicly owned treatment works or improvement of evacuation routes.
This bill would exempt from CEQA projects or activities undertaken in the County of Butte related to forest health and fuel reduction. Because a lead agency would be required to determine the applicability of this exemption to a project or activities, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Town of Paradise and the County of Butte.
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.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 21080.50 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:21080.50.
(a) This division does not apply to the construction or operation of a publicly owned treatment works located in the Town of Paradise.(b) This division does not apply to projects or activities undertaken by a public agency to improve evacuation routes, including maintenance, repair, expansion, or addition of new roadways, in the Town of Paradise.
