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California Law (Last Updated: March 4, 2014) |
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Public Resources Code - PRC |
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Division 13. ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY |
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Chapter 3. State Agencies, Boards and Commissions |
Section 21100.2.
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(a) (1) For projects described in subdivision (c) of Section 21065, each state agency shall establish, by resolution or order, time limits that do not exceed the following:
(A) One year for completing and certifying environmental impact reports.
(B) One hundred eighty days for completing and adopting negative declarations.
(2) The time limits specified in paragraph (1) shall apply only to those circumstances in which the state agency is the lead agency for a project. These resolutions or orders may establish different time limits for different types or classes of projects, but all limits shall be measured from the date on which an application requesting approval of the project is received and accepted as complete by the state agency.
(3) No application for a project may be deemed incomplete for lack of a waiver of time periods prescribed in state regulations.
(4) The resolutions or orders required by this section may provide for a reasonable extension of the time period in the event that compelling circumstances justify additional time and the project applicant consents thereto.
(b) If a draft environmental impact report, environmental impact report, or focused environmental impact report is prepared under a contract to a state agency, the contract shall be executed within 45 days from the date on which the state agency sends a notice of preparation pursuant to Section 21080.4. The state agency may take longer to execute the contract if the project applicant and the state agency mutually agree to an extension of the time limit provided by this subdivision.
(c) (1) A public agency may establish a process that would allow an applicant for a natural gas pipeline safety enhancement activity to elect to pay additional fees to be used by the public agency in determining whether to approve a natural gas pipeline safety enhancement activity by entering into a contract with one or more third parties to assist the public agency to perform the analysis, consistent with Article VII of the California Constitution and Section 19130 of the Government Code and the charter of a chartered city or county, as applicable. The public agency may, but is not required to, offer an applicant the option to pay those fees and subject a project to this process.
(2) All fees paid by a natural gas pipeline safety enhancement activity applicant shall be used exclusively for analysis of that applicant's application for certification.
(3) For purposes of this section, "natural gas pipeline safety enhancement activity" has the same meaning as defined in paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Section 21080.21.
(d) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2018, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2018, deletes or extends that date.