CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The 2021-2022 Legislative Session was light on CEQA amendments, and once again did not produce any significant reform. While not amendments to CEQA itself, these new targets are worth noting as they will invariably appear in CEQA documents. As a ministerial approval, these projects would not be subject to CEQA review.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

1) held the San Diego County Board of Supervisors committed a prejudicial abuse of discretion in granting project opponents’ appeals of the Planning Commission’s decision upholding County’s use of the CEQA Guidelines section 15183 exemption for a construction debris and inert materials recycling facility project. Hilltop Group, Inc.,

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CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2023

On April 7, 2023, the Third District Court of Appeal filed a lengthy published opinion – the latest installment in one of the longer ongoing CEQA battles in recent memory – affirming a judgment finding an EIR for the Federal relicensing of Oroville Dam and related hydropower facilities legally adequate. 5th 630 ( Butte I ).

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Solicitation for data on the presence and treatment of PFAS in wastewater discharges : On March 17, 2021, EPA published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking seeking information and data regarding discharges of PFAS from industrial facilities in the Organic Chemicals, Plastics, and Synthetic Fibers point source category.[[N: 14560 (Mar.

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