In the event that a project requires both an environmental impact report prepared pursuant to the requirements of this division and an environmental impact statement prepared pursuant to the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, an applicant may request and the lead agency may waive the time limits established pursuant to Section 21100.2 or 21151.5 if it finds that additional time is required to prepare a combined environmental impact report-environmental impact statement and that the time required to prepare such a combined document would be shorter than that required to prepare each document separately.
Cal. Pub. Res. Code § 21083.6
General
Known as the California Environmental Quality Act
The act spans §§ 21000–21189 (300 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Center for Biological Diversity v. Department of Fish & Wildlife (2015)
Most recently applied in Committee for Re-Evaluation of the T-Line Loop v. San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (November 2016)
Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1200.
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.