California Code of Regulations
Title 14 - Natural Resources
Division 5 - San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission
Chapter 15 - Implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act
Subchapter 1 - When the Commission is the Lead Agency
Article 3 - Preparation of an Environmental Assessment
Section 11520 - Use of a Federal Environmental Assessment or Environmental Impact Statement as an Environmental Assessment
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) When a federal environmental assessment or environmental impact statement or its equivalent has been or will be prepared in time for the Commission to use it as an environmental assessment, the Commission may use it as an environmental assessment if it contains all the information needed in an assessment or if the Commission can supplement it so it will contain all the information needed in an assessment.
(b) If the Commission uses a federal environmental assessment or environmental impact statement or its equivalent as its environmental assessment, it should add or supplement a discussion of mitigation, growth- inducing impact, and energy conservation if the environmental assessment or environmental impact statement does not include an adequate discussion of these elements.
1. New section filed 5-18-87; operative 6-17-87 (Register 87, No. 30).
2. Change without regulatory effect amending section heading, section and NOTE filed 12-31-2020 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2021, No. 1). (OAL review extended 60 calendar days pursuant to Executive Order N-40-20.)
3. Amendment of NOTE filed 6-2-2022; operative 10-1-2022 (Register 2022, No. 22).
Note: Authority cited: Section 66632(f), Government Code; and Sections 21082 and 29201(e), Public Resources Code. Reference: Section 21080.5, Public Resources Code.
