Bill Text: CA SB659 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

California Senate Bill 659 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Environmental quality: archaeological resources: qualifications.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB659 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB659-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: SB 659	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 7, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 9, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hancock
    (   Coauthors:   Senators  
Corbett   and Gaines   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to add Section 21083.2.5 to the Public Resources Code,
relating to environmental quality.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 659, as amended, Hancock. Environmental quality: archaeological
resources: qualifications.
   The California Environmental Quality Act, referred to as 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
requires a lead agency to determine whether a project may have a
significant effect on archaeological resources.
   CEQA requires the Office of Planning and Research to prepare,
develop, and review on a biennial basis, and the Secretary of the
Natural Resources Agency to certify and adopt, guidelines for the
implementation of CEQA.
   This bill would require the office, on its next review of the
guidelines, to prepare and develop proposed changes and amendments to
the guidelines to establish  professional qualifications for
a person performing an   standards for proper 
archaeological evaluation  conducted  for the purposes of
CEQA.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 21083.2.5 is added to the Public Resources
Code, to read:
   21083.2.5.  (a) On or after January 1, 2014, 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 State
Historical Resources Commission, shall prepare, develop, and transmit
to the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency recommended
proposed changes or amendments to the guidelines establishing
 professional qualifications for a person performing an
  standards for proper  archaeological evaluation
 conducted  for the purposes of Section 21083.2.
   (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 pursuant to subdivision
(a).