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Cal. Pub. Res. Code § 21065

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Known as the California Environmental Quality Act

The act spans §§ 21000–21189 (300 sections).

Applied in 32 court decisions — leading case 41 Cal. 4th 372 - Muzzy Ranch Co. v. Solano County Airport Land Use Commission (2007)

Most recently applied in 3 Cal. 5th 677 - Friends of Eel River v. North Coast Ry. Auth. (July 2017)

Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1230, Sec. 4

How often courts cite this section

199420002010201760
citing decisions per year

Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

“Project” means an activity which may cause either a direct physical change in the environment, or a reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment, and which is any of the following:

(a) An activity directly undertaken by any public agency.

(b) An activity undertaken by a person which is supported, in whole or in part, through contracts, grants, subsidies, loans, or other forms of assistance from one or more public agencies.

(c) An activity that involves the issuance to a person of a lease, permit, license, certificate, or other entitlement for use by one or more public agencies.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.