California Code of Regulations
Title 14 - Natural Resources
Division 6 - Resources Agency
Chapter 3 - Guidelines for Implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act
Article 3 - AUTHORITIES GRANTED TO PUBLIC AGENCIES BY CEQA
Section 15042 - Authority to Disapprove Projects

Universal Citation: 14 CA Code of Regs 15042
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024

A public agency may disapprove a project if necessary in order to avoid one or more significant effects on the environment that would occur if the project were approved as proposed. A lead agency has broader authority to disapprove a project than does a responsible agency. A responsible agency may refuse to approve a project in order to avoid direct or indirect environmental effects of that part of the project which the responsible agency would be called on to carry out or approve. For example, an air quality management district acting as a responsible agency would not have authority to disapprove a project for water pollution effects that were unrelated to the air quality aspects of the project regulated by the district.

1. Change without regulatory effect amending NOTE filed 10-6-2005 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2005, No. 40).

Note: Authority cited: Section 21083, Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections 21002 and 21002.1, Public Resources Code; Friends of Mammoth v. Mono County, 8 Cal. App. 3d 247; San Diego Trust and Savings Bank v. Friends of Gill, 121 Cal. App. 3d 203.

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