California Environmental Quality Act | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-15

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00:01:59 1 Policy
00:02:45 2 CEQA process overview
00:04:54 2.1 Lead agency and responsible agencies
00:06:30 2.2 Initial study
00:07:45 2.3 Thresholds of significance
00:09:53 3 Environmental impact analysis
00:10:33 3.1 Aesthetics
00:10:42 3.2 Agricultural resources
00:10:53 3.3 Air quality
00:11:02 3.4 Biological resources
00:11:12 3.5 Cultural Resources
00:11:22 3.6 Geology and Soils
00:11:32 3.7 Greenhouse gases
00:12:23 3.7.1 Introduction and setting
00:17:36 3.7.2 Analysis approach
00:21:34 3.7.2.1 Bay Area Air Quality Management District
00:24:04 3.7.2.2 South Coast Air Quality Management District
00:25:10 3.7.2.3 Impact mitigation measures
00:27:11 3.8 Hazards and Hazardous Materials
00:27:22 3.9 Hydrology and Water Quality
00:27:33 3.10 Land Use and Planning
00:27:43 3.11 Mineral Resources
00:27:52 3.12 Noise
00:28:01 3.13 Population and Housing
00:28:12 3.14 Public services
00:28:21 3.15 Recreation
00:28:30 3.16 Transportation and traffic
00:28:41 3.17 Tribal Cultural Resources
00:28:52 3.18 Utilities and Service Systems
00:29:02 3.19 Mandatory Findings of Significance
00:29:14 4 Level of environmental review
00:30:48 4.1 Ministerial decision
00:31:43 4.2 Statutory exemptions
00:33:46 4.3 Categorical exemptions
00:35:15 4.4 Negative Declaration (ND) / Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND)
00:37:35 4.5 Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
00:41:22 5 Comparisons to similar laws
00:41:45 5.1 National Environmental Policy Act
00:44:32 5.2 Laws in other states
00:45:38 6 Litigation
00:47:37 6.1 Settlements
00:48:05 7 Criticisms
00:52:06 8 See also



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The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is a California statute passed in 1970, shortly after the United States federal government passed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), to institute a statewide policy of environmental protection. CEQA does not directly regulate land uses, but instead requires state and local agencies within California to follow a protocol of analysis and public disclosure of environmental impacts of proposed projects and, in a departure from NEPA, adopt all feasible measures to mitigate those impacts.  CEQA makes environmental protection a mandatory part of every California state and local (public) agency's decision making process.  It has also become the basis for numerous lawsuits concerning public and private projects.
CEQA has been criticized for being "abused" (used for reasons other than environmental ones) to block, downsize, delay, or gain other concessions from new development. For example, one study found that 85% of CEQA lawsuits were filed by organizations with no record of environmental advocacy and 80% of CEQA lawsuits targeted infill development; CEQA requirements have dramatically increased the difficulty of creating bicycle lanes on already existing roads; and unions have used CEQA lawsuits or threats thereof to force developers to use union workers.