Proposition 45: Modifies Environmental Review For Certain Projects. Initiative Statute.
Proposition 45: Modifies Environmental Review For Certain Projects. Initiative Statute.
Applicants for certain projects could choose a faster environmental review process, with deadlines for agencies and courts and changed rules for alternatives and lawsuits.
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Proposal impacts
Impact on Housing project developers
Covered housing applications could use a 365 business day deadline for an agency decision on environmental reports.
Covered housing applications today face review deadlines that agencies and applicants can sometimes extend by agreement.
Impact on Affiliated tribal members
Tribal consultation under the optional process would exclude their tribes despite ties to a project's land.
Tribal consultation today lets their tribes request notice and discuss protections for cultural sites.
Impact on Nearby project residents
Nearby residents would have 45 days to comment on draft environmental reports for covered projects.
Nearby residents today have minimum comment periods on draft reports, and agencies may give them extra time.
Impact on Covered project reviewers
Agency review staff would face firm deadlines and changed rules for considering ways to reduce environmental harm.
Agency review staff today must develop and consider a range of reasonable ways to reduce environmental harm.
Impact on Project challenging environmentalists
Environmental lawsuits could generally stop the affected part of a covered project, not its entire approval.
Environmental lawsuits today can suspend all of a project's approval while agencies correct a review violation.
Impact on California taxpayers
State spending would cover new review rules and court work, partly offset by fees from applicants and lawsuits.
State spending today covers project reviews, while private applicants typically pay agency costs through fees.
