Bill Text: CA AB782 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: public agencies: land transfers.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-08-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 181, Statutes of 2019. [AB782 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB782-Chaptered.html
nia 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 the acquisition, sale, or other transfer of interest in land by a public agency for certain purposes, or the granting or acceptance of funding by a public agency for those purposes.
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this act to clarify the timing of the environmental review required pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code) where a public agency is involved in the funding, acquisition, sale, or other transfer of interests in land for purposes set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 21080.28 of the Public Resources Code. This act is not intended to otherwise alter the applicability of the California Environmental Quality Act to an action that may cause a physical change in the environment.SEC. 2.
Section 21080.28 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:21080.28.
(a) This division does not apply to either of the following:(1)s division pursuant to this section and the lead agency determines to approve or carry out the activity, the
lead agency shall file a notice with the Office of Planning and Research and with the county clerk in the county in which the land is located in the manner specified in subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 21152.
