BILL NUMBER: AB 460	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 17, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wyman

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2001

    An act to add Section 21080.25 to the Public Resources
Code, relating to environmental quality.   An act
relating to energy, and making an appropriation therefor. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 460, as amended, Wyman.   Environmental protection
  Energy  : transmission Path 15.
   The existing 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 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.
   This bill would  exempt from the requirements of CEQA any
project primarily involving the planning, funding, design, site
acquisition, construction, operation, or maintenance of new or
replacement facilities or structures associated with the transmission
path known as "Path 15" near Los Banos   appropriate
$10,000,000 to the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission for the purpose of funding the environmental
studies of Path 15, to be completed by the Transmission Authority of
Northern California during 2001  .
   Vote:   majority   2/3  .
Appropriation:   no   yes  .  Fiscal
committee: yes.  State-mandated local program:  no.


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

  
  SECTION 1.  Section 21080.25 is added to the Public  
  SECTION 1.  The sum of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) is hereby
appropriated from the General Fund to the State Energy Resources
Conservation and Development Commission for the purpose of funding
the environmental studies of Path 15, to be completed by the
Transmission Authority of Northern California during 2001. 
 Resources Code, to read:
   21080.25.  This division does not apply to any project primarily
involving the planning, funding, design, site acquisition,
construction, operation, or maintenance of new or replacement
facilities or structures associated with the transmission path known
as "Path 15" near Los Banos.