California Environmental Quality Act: administrative and judicial streamlining benefits: hospital: City of Emeryville.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details about the conditions a hospital campus project needs to meet for streamlined review.

Streamlining Environmental Review for Hospital Project in Emeryville

The bill establishes special rules to speed up the environmental review and legal process for an environmentally leadership hospital campus project in Emeryville.

What This Bill Does

• Defines a construction project of a hospital campus in Emeryville as an 'environmental leadership hospital campus project'.
• Requires the City of Emeryville's city council to certify the project for streamlined judicial review if it meets certain conditions.
• Sets up rules for courts to resolve legal challenges within 365 days after filing the certified record of proceedings with the court.
• Requires concurrent preparation of the environmental impact report and the administrative record.

Who It Names or Affects

• The City of Emeryville's city council
• Project applicants for hospital campus projects in Emeryville
• Courts handling legal challenges related to this type of project

Terms To Know

Environmental Impact Report (EIR)

A document that explains the environmental effects of a proposed project and ways to reduce those effects.

Lead agency

The government body responsible for approving or carrying out a project, which must follow CEQA rules.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify the exact conditions that the hospital campus project needs to meet.
• Requires local agencies to take on additional duties without extra funding.

Official Summary Text

SB 830, as amended, Arreguín.
California Environmental Quality Act: administrative and judicial streamlining benefits: hospital: City of Emeryville.
The 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 (EIR) 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. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA establishes administrative procedures for the review and certification of the EIR for a project and judicial review procedures for any action or proceeding brought to challenge
the lead agency’s decision to certify the EIR or to grant project approvals.
This bill would establish streamlined procedures for the administrative and judicial review of the environmental review and approvals granted for an environmental leadership hospital campus project, defined by the bill as a construction project of a hospital campus in the City of Emeryville, under certain conditions. The bill would require the city council of the City of Emeryville, as the lead agency for the hospital campus project, to certify the project for the streamlined judicial review, as specified, if it finds the project will meet those conditions. The bill would require the project applicant of the environmental leadership hospital campus project to take certain actions in order for those specified procedures to apply to the project. The bill would require the Judicial Council, on or before July 1, 2026, to adopt rules of court establishing procedures
requiring actions or proceedings seeking judicial review of the certification of an environmental impact report for an environmental leadership hospital campus project or the granting of any project approval, including any appeals to the court of appeal or the Supreme Court, to be resolved, to the extent feasible, within
270
365
calendar days of the filing of the certified record of proceedings with the court. The bill would require the lead agency to concurrently prepare the record of proceedings with the environmental review, as provided.
Because the bill would impose additional duties on a local agency, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations
as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Emeryville.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Current Bill Text

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