SB 1018: Interstate 710 North Gap Closure project: cost-benefit analysis.

Session Year: 2015-2016
House: Senate

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(1)Existing law creates the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority with specified powers and duties relative to transportation planning, programming, and operations in Los Angeles County.

This bill would require the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, before making a final decision on the Interstate 710 North Gap Closure project, to take specified actions on a specified cost-benefit analysis for the project.

(2)This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Interstate 710 North Gap Closure project.

(3)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.

(4)This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

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 (EIR) 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 establishes a public review period for a draft EIR of a project and requires the lead agency to consider the comments submitted during the review period and to respond to the comments.

This bill would deem a certain cost-benefit analysis prepared for the State Route 710 North Study to be a technical study to be included in the comprehensive analysis of the alternatives described in the draft EIR for the State Route 710 North Study and would require the lead agency to consider and respond, in writing, to any comments regarding the analysis submitted during the public review period.

This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for State Route 710 North Study.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Discussed in Hearing