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AB-2734 California Environmental Quality Act: geographic terms: maps.(2019-2020)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.

 Section 21083.8 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:

21083.8.
 (a) The Office of Planning and Research may prepare and develop, and the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency may review, adopt, amend, or repeal, maps for purposes of this division to illustrate or clarify geographic terms, such as agricultural land, bus rapid transit, infill site, major transit stop, or urbanized area.
(b) Maps adopted under subdivision (a) are not subject to the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code).
(c) (1) The maps adopted under subdivision (a) establish a rebuttable presumption of the presence of geographic terms depicted by the maps.
(2) A lead agency or responsible agency shall not make a contrary finding of the presence of geographic terms depicted by maps adopted under subdivision (a) unless the contrary finding is supported by a preponderance of evidence in the record of proceedings.