Pub. Resources Code § 21082
CEQA: General Provisions, Exemptions and Review

Pub. Resources Code § 21082

Agency procedures for CEQA reviewDIVISION 13. ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › CHAPTER 2.6. General

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Every public agency adopts its own CEQA objectives, criteria, and procedures consistent with the Guidelines.

  • Adopt procedures. Public agencies adopt by ordinance, resolution, rule, or regulation objectives, criteria, and procedures for evaluating projects and preparing EIRs and negative declarations. § 21082
  • Coterminous districts. A school or other district with boundaries coterminous with a city or county may use that jurisdiction’s procedures. § 21082
  • Consistency. The procedures must be consistent with CEQA and the Guidelines adopted under § 21083. § 21082
  • Deadline. Agencies must adopt them within 60 days after the Guidelines are adopted. § 21082

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§ 21082

All public agencies shall adopt by ordinance, resolution, rule, or regulation, objectives, criteria, and procedures for the evaluation of projects and the preparation of environmental impact reports and negative declarations pursuant to this division. A school district, or any other district, whose boundaries are coterminous with a city, county, or city and county, may utilize the objectives, criteria, and procedures of the city, county, or city and county, as may be applicable, in which case, the school district or other district need not adopt objectives, criteria, and procedures of its own. The objectives, criteria, and procedures shall be consistent with the provisions of this division and with the guidelines adopted by the Secretary of the Resources Agency pursuant to Section 21083. Such objectives, criteria, and procedures shall be adopted by each public agency no later than 60 days after the Secretary of the Resources Agency has adopted guidelines pursuant to Section 21083.

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History. (Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1312.)

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