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, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009, declares that the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is a critically important natural resource for California and the nation and it serves as both the hub of the California water system and the most valuable estuary and wetland ecosystem on the west coast of North and South America.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature that, among other things, no revisions shall be made to CEQA for purposes of the Delta Conveyance Project.

Statutes affected:
SB 607: 21080.1 PRC, 21167.6 PRC
02/20/25 - Introduced: 21080.1 PRC, 21167.6 PRC
03/24/25 - Amended Senate: 21064 PRC, 21064 PRC, 21064.5 PRC, 21064.5 PRC, 21080 PRC, 21080 PRC, 21080.1 PRC, 21083 PRC, 21083 PRC, 21167.6 PRC, 21168.9 PRC, 21168.9 PRC
05/01/25 - Amended Senate: 21064 PRC, 21064.5 PRC, 21080 PRC, 21080.1 PRC, 21082.2 PRC, 21082.2 PRC, 21083 PRC, 21167.6 PRC, 21168.9 PRC
05/13/25 - Amended Senate: 21064 PRC, 21064.5 PRC, 21080 PRC, 21080.1 PRC, 21082.2 PRC, 21083 PRC, 21167.6 PRC, 21168.9 PRC
05/28/25 - Amended Senate: 21064 PRC, 21064.5 PRC, 21080 PRC, 21080.1 PRC, 21082.2 PRC, 21083 PRC, 21167.6 PRC, 21168.9 PRC