California Air Resources Board

Summary

Authorizes special environmental review procedures similar to the Jobs and Economic Improvement through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011 (AB 900, Buchanan, Chapter 345, Statutes of 2011) for the San Diego Area Council of Governments for a suite of transit projects on an underused U.S. Navy site in San Diego.  The procedures include authorizing California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) streamlining in exchange for complying with several environmental requirements and a CARB greenhouse gas emission determination with specified local mitigation measures.

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Summary

Would have expanded existing school site acquisition and environmental certification requirements under the California Education Code for public and State-funded schools to include private and charter schools.  The requirements would have included evaluation of the schoolsite for hazardous substances, waste, and air emissions, among other provisions.  The bill would have also extended the requirements for the purchase of a schoolsite or the construction of a school under the California Environmental Quality Act to include charter schools.  Was not heard in the Senate Environmental Quality Committee. 

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