California Environmental Quality Act: statute of limitations.

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA specifies time periods within which a person is required to bring an action or proceeding challenging a public agency's action on the grounds that the public agency violated the requirements of CEQA, as specified. This bill would shorten certain of those time periods, as provided.