California Senate Bill SB154 Latest Draft

 BILL NUMBER: SB 154INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Huff FEBRUARY 2, 2015 An act to amend Section 21061 of the Public Resources Code, relating to the environment. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 154, as introduced, Huff. California Environmental Quality Act. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared by contract, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report, as defined, on a project 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. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the definition of "environmental impact report." 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 21061 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read: 21061.  (a)    "Environmental impact report" means a detailed statement setting forth the matters specified in Sections 21100 and  21100.1; provided that   21100.1. The  information or data  which   that  is relevant to  such a   the  statement and is a matter of public  record   record,  or is generally available to the public need not be repeated in its entirety in  such   the  statement, but may be specifically cited as the source for conclusions stated  therein; and provided further that such   in the statement. The  information or data shall be briefly described  , that its   in the statement. The  relationship  between the information or   data  to the environmental impact report shall be indicated  , and that the   in the statement. The  source  thereof   of the information and data  shall be reasonably available for inspection at a public place or public building. An environmental impact report also includes any comments  which   that  are obtained pursuant to Section 21104 or 21153, or  which   that  are required to be obtained pursuant to this division.  An   (b)     An  environmental impact report is an informational document  which   that  , when its preparation is required by this division, shall be considered by every public agency prior to its approval or disapproval of a project. The purpose of an environmental impact report is to provide public agencies and the public in general with detailed information about the effect  which   that  a proposed project is likely to have on the environment; to list ways in which the significant effects of  such a   the proposed  project might be  minimized;   minimized  and to indicate alternatives to such a   the proposed  project.  In   (c)     In  order to facilitate the use of environmental impact reports, public agencies shall require that such   the  reports contain an index or table of contents and a summary. Failure to include  such   the  index, table of contents, or summary shall not constitute a cause of action pursuant to Section 21167.