BILL NUMBER: SB 245	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Aanestad

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2007

   An act to amend Section 21060.5 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to the environment.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 245, as introduced, Aanestad. Environment: CEQA.
   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 on a
project, as defined, 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 and nonsubstantive changes to the
definition of "environment."
   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 21060.5 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   21060.5.  "Environment" means the physical conditions 
which   that  exist within the area which will be
affected by a proposed project, including land, air, water, minerals,
flora, fauna, noise,  or  objects of historic or aesthetic
significance.