California Public Resources Code

§ 21094

PRC § 21094 Effective Sep 29, 2010Div. 13 · Ch. 2.6

Statute text

(a)Where a prior environmental impact report has been prepared and certified for a program, plan, policy, or ordinance, the lead agency for a later project that meets the requirements of this section shall examine significant effects of the later project upon the environment by using a tiered environmental impact report, except that the report on the later project is not required to examine those effects that the lead agency determines were either of the following:

(1)Mitigated or avoided pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 21081 as a result of the prior environmental impact report.

(2)Examined at a sufficient level of detail in the prior environmental impact report to enable those effects to be mitigated or avoided by site-specific revisions, the imposition of conditions, or by other means in connection with the approval of the later project.

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Legislative history

Repealed (in Sec. 3.5) and added by Stats. 2010, Ch. 496, Sec. 4. (SB 1456) Effective September 29, 2010. Section operative January 1, 2016, by its own provisions.