Senate Bill No. 584

An act to add Section 21080.06 of the Public Resources Code, relating to the environment.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 584, as amended, Nguyen. California Environmental Quality Act: exemption.

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. The act 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 specified projects from its provisions.

This bill would exempt from the requirements of CEQA a project for the resurfacing of a city or county park, as specified.

Vote: majority   Appropriation: no   Fiscal Committee: no   Local Program: no

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

SECTION 1.

Section 21080.06 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:

21080.06.

 This division does not apply to a project for the resurfacing of a city or county park. For purposes of this section, “resurfacing” means changing the surface of a field while retaining the original purpose of the park as a recreational facility, including, but not limited to, changing a grass field to a baseball field or an artificial turf field.

SB 584