Roderick Wright
- Democratic
Author
(1) 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 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 exempts certain specified projects from its requirements. Under existing law, every air pollution control district or air quality management district in a federal nonattainment area for any national ambient air quality standard is required to establish by regulation, a system by which all reductions in emissions of air contaminants that are to be used to offset certain future increases in the emission of air contaminants are banked prior to use. The South Coast Air Quality Management District (district) promulgated various rules establishing offset exemptions, providing Priority Reserve offset credits, and creating or tracking credits used for offset exemption or Priority Reserve projects. In Natural Resources Defense Council v. South Coast Air Quality Management District (Super. Ct. Los Angeles County, 2007, No. BS 110792) , the superior court found the promulgation of certain of these district rules to be in violation of CEQA. This bill would authorize the district to issue permits under specified circumstances, notwithstanding this court decision. The provisions of the bill would be repealed on May 1, 2012. (2) This bill would state the findings and declarations of the Legislature concerning the need for special legislation.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 206, Statutes of 2009.
Approved by Governor.
Enrolled. To Governor at 1 p.m.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 45. Noes 21. Page 3399.) To Senate.
Amended.
Read second time.
(Heard in committee on September 11.)
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.)
Senate concurs in Assembly amendments. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 2457.) To enrollment.
In Senate.
Joint Rule 62(a) file notice suspended. (Page 3319.)
From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on U. & C. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on U. & C.
(Heard in committee on September 9.)
Joint Rule 62(a) file notice suspended. (Page 3056.)
Read third time. Amended. (Page 3044.)
Re-referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and U. & C. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.
From inactive file to third reading file.
Notice of motion to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Torrico.
Placed on inactive file on request of Assembly Member Torrico.
From Consent Calendar to third reading.
Read second time. To Consent Calendar.
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.)
(Heard in committee on July 8.)
To Com. on G.O.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 928.) To Assembly.
Read second time. To Consent Calendar.
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 849.)
Set for hearing May 12.
To Com. on G.O.
From print. May be acted upon on or after April 19.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB827 | HTML |
| 03/19/09 - Introduced | |
| 09/04/09 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/12/09 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/15/09 - Enrolled | |
| 10/11/09 - Chaptered |
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