California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California AB2410: Wildfire safety: fuels reduction projects: California Environmental Quality Act.
Status: In committee, August 13, 2026
What the bill says
An act to add and repeal Section 21080.7 of the Public Resources Code, relating to wildfire safety. wildfire safety Wildfire safety: fuels reduction projects: California Environmental Quality Act. 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…
From the committee substitute text, July 9, 2026:
An act to add and repeal Section 21080.7 of the Public Resources Code, relating to wildfire safety. wildfire safety Wildfire safety: fuels reduction projects: California Environmental Quality Act. 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. CEQA exempts from its requirements certain projects. This bill would, until January 1, 2030, exempt from CEQA critical fuels reduction projects that address extremely flammable species, are conducted in communities located in high fire threat districts or very high fire hazard severity zones, and remove specified nonnative species or common species. The bill would require projects exempt from CEQA pursuant to this exemption to comply with the best management practices under the 2025 …