Bill Text: CA SB1293 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Environment: guidelines: vegetation management projects.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-06-30 - Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. [SB1293 Detail]
Download: California-2009-SB1293-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 1293 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 30, 2010
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 13, 2010
INTRODUCED BY Senators Hollingsworth and Ducheny
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
An act to add Section 21083.02 to the Public Resources Code,
relating to the environment , and declaring the urgency thereof,
to take effect immediately .
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1293, as amended, Hollingsworth. Environment: guidelines:
vegetation management projects.
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 (EIR) 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 requires the
Office of Planning and Research to prepare and develop guidelines for
the implementation of CEQA by public agencies.
This bill would require the office, on or after January 1, 2011,
at the time of the next update of the guidelines for implementing
CEQA, in cooperation with the Department of Forestry and Fire
Protection, to prepare, develop, and transmit to the Secretary of the
Natural Resources Agency recommended proposed changes or amendments
to the initial study for the inclusion of questions related to
vegetation management projects to reduce fire hazards that are
located in state responsibility areas and high fire hazard severity
zones. This bill would also require the Secretary of the Natural
Resources Agency to certify and adopt these recommended proposed
changes or amendments.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
Vote: majority 2/3 . Appropriation:
no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 21083.02 is added to the Public Resources Code,
to read:
21083.02. (a) On or after January 1, 2011, at the time of the
next review of the guidelines prepared and developed to implement
this division pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 21083, the
Office of Planning and Research, in cooperation with the Department
of Forestry and Fire Protection, shall prepare, develop, and transmit
to the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency recommended
proposed changes or amendments to the initial study of the guidelines
implementing this division for the inclusion of questions related to
vegetation management projects to reduce fire hazards that are
located on lands classified as state responsibility areas, as defined
in Section 4102, and on lands classified as very high fire hazard
severity zones, as defined in subdivision (i) of Section 51177 of the
Government Code.
(b) Upon receipt and review, the Secretary of the Natural
Resources Agency shall certify and adopt the recommended proposed
changes or amendments prepared and developed by the Office of
Planning and Research pursuant to subdivision (a).
SEC. 2. This act is an urgency statute necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety
within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go
into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
Because of the prolonged drought in California and the imminent
danger of fire, and the need to establish an effective vegetation
management to ensure the general safety and appropriate evacuation of
the public, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.
