“Lead agency” means the public agency which has the principal responsibility for carrying out or approving a project which may have a significant effect upon the environment.
Cal. Pub. Res. Code § 21067
Definitions
Known as the California Environmental Quality Act
The act spans §§ 21000–21189 (300 sections).
Applied in 32 court decisions — leading case 32 Cal. 3d 779 - Fullerton Joint Union High School District v. State Board of Education (1982)
Most recently applied in Aqualliance v. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (February 2018)
Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1154.
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.