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Code · California · Public Resources Code

§ 21080.70

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(a)This division does not apply to a project that consists of the development, construction, or operation of a heavy maintenance facility or other maintenance facility for electrically powered high-speed rail, if all of the following conditions are met:
(1)The project has been evaluated in a prior project-level environmental impact report prepared pursuant to this division and that prior report evaluated one or more similar high-speed rail maintenance facility sites.
(2)The project incorporates all applicable mitigation measures identified in those prior project-level environmental impact reports.
(3)The project site is located within one mile of rail right-of-way approved for high-speed rail service.
(b)This division does not apply to a project that consists of the development, construction, or modification of a proposed passenger rail station, or design changes to a passenger rail station, for the purpose of serving electrically powered high-speed rail, if both of the following conditions are met:
(1)The station or station design change is located within the resource study area of a previously certified environmental impact report prepared pursuant to this division for a high-speed rail or passenger rail project.
(2)The project incorporates all applicable mitigation measures identified in the previously certified environmental impact report.
(c)For purposes of this section, “high-speed rail” means the California high-speed rail project and other high-speed rail projects in California that are planned to directly connect to the California high-speed rail project.
(d)This section does not apply to any project on or within natural and protected lands as defined in Section 21067.5.
(e)The exemptions provided in subdivisions
(a)and
(b)shall apply exclusively to projects described in those subdivisions and do not exempt any other facilities, structures, or uses not expressly identified. Any other project uses shall be subject to this division unless independently exempt under a separate provision of law.
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