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                                <ns0:ActionText>INTRODUCED</ns0:ActionText>
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                <ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Gallagher</ns0:AuthorText>
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                <ns0:Title>An act to add Section 21080.65 to the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality.</ns0:Title>
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                        <ns0:Subject>California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: Five-Mile Basin.</ns0:Subject>
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                        <html:p>The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment.</html:p>
                        <html:p>This bill would exempt from the
                         requirements of CEQA a project to remove sediment from the Five-Mile Basin in the City of Chico.</html:p>
                        <html:p>This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Chico.</html:p>
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                <ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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                        <ns0:Num>SECTION 1.</ns0:Num>
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                                Section 21080.65 is added to the
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                                , to read:
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                                                        <html:p>This division does not apply to a project to remove sediment from the Five-Mile Basin in the City of Chico. </html:p>
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                                <html:p>The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the significant flooding risk present until a sediment removal project is complete within the Five-Mile Basin is unique to the City of Chico and the area that immediately surrounds it.</html:p>
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