Bill Text: CA SB633 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: State parks.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2014-09-26 - In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending. [SB633 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB633-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 633	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Pavley

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 21166 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to environmental quality.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 633, as introduced, Pavley. CEQA: environmental impact reports.

   The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead
agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify
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 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 prescribes certain
requirements for the review of draft EIRs, as specified. CEQA
prohibits a lead agency or responsible agency from requiring a
subsequent or supplemental EIR when an EIR has been prepared for a
project pursuant to its provisions, unless one or more of specified
events occurs, including, among other things, that new information,
which was not known and could not have been known at the time the EIR
was certified as complete, becomes available.
   This bill would specifically require that the new information that
becomes available was not known and could not have been known by the
lead agency or any responsible agency at the time the EIR was
certified as complete.
   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 21166 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   21166.  When an environmental impact report has been prepared for
a project pursuant to this division, no subsequent or supplemental
environmental impact report shall be required by the lead agency or
by any responsible agency, unless one or more of the following events
occurs:
   (a) Substantial changes are proposed in the project  which
  that  will require major revisions of the
environmental impact report.
   (b) Substantial changes occur with respect to the circumstances
under which the project is being undertaken  which 
 that  will require major revisions in the environmental
impact report.
   (c) New information, which was not known and could not have been
known  by the lead agency or any responsible agency  at the
time the environmental impact report was certified as complete,
becomes available.