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The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA / ˈ s iː. k w ə /) is a California statute passed in 1970 and signed in to law by then-governor Ronald Reagan, [1] [2] shortly after the United States federal government passed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), to institute a statewide policy of environmental protection.
California Senate Bill 35 (SB 35) is a statute streamlining housing construction in California counties and cities that fail to build enough housing to meet state mandated housing construction requirements, and exempts construction under the law from California Environmental Quality Act review. [1]
Bills looking at streamlining and increasing productions remove red tape delaying affordable housing construction, create more CEQA exemptions, add a density bonus law for residential care ...
In 2023, Newsom signed AB 434, which empowers the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to enforce the streamlining of HOME Act projects concerning ministerial processing of lot splits in single-family residential zones, along with the streamlining of projects which fall under the ADU law, SB 6 (2022), SB 4 (2023), SB 684 (2023) and AB 1218 (2023), and requires the department ...
The Swiss cheese approach to dealing with California's landmark environmental quality law has created huge inequities and slowed or stopped development for reasons that have nothing to do with ...
Opponents of the $1.1 billion project have successfully delayed the project on environmental and public review grounds. Controversial Capitol annex project would be exempt from environmental law ...
Senate Bill 375 was introduced as a bill in order to meet the environmental standards set out by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32). Since its implementation in 2006, AB 32 has facilitated the passage of a cap-and-trade program in 2010 which placed an upper limit on greenhouse gas levels emitted by the state of California.
Standards for performing a Phase I site assessment have been promulgated by the US EPA [1] and are based in part on ASTM in Standard E1527-13. [ 2 ] If a site is considered contaminated, a Phase II environmental site assessment may be conducted, ASTM test E1903, a more detailed investigation involving chemical analysis for hazardous substances ...