California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California SB1375: California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: urban intermodal rail station project.
Status: Chaptered, September 30, 2026
What the bill says
An act to add Section 21080.76 to the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality. environmental quality California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: urban intermodal rail station project. 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 chaptered text, September 30, 2026:
An act to add Section 21080.76 to the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality. environmental quality California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: urban intermodal rail station project. 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. Existing law exempts from CEQA a public project for the improvement, institution, or increase of passenger rail service, including the maintenance, construction, or rehabilitation of stations, terminals, or existing operations facilities that will be exclusively used by zero-emission trains or specified rolling stock or locomotives, as provided. This bill would exempt from CEQA, except as specified, a public urban, intermodal rail station project within a long-urbanized area within the statewide passenger rail network, at …