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Title 14 - Natural ResourcesDivision 6 - Resources AgencyChapter 3 - Guidelines for Implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act
Article 10 - Considerations in Preparing EIRs and Negative Declarations
Section 15151 - Standards for Adequacy of an EIR

Cal. Code Regs. tit. 14 § 15151

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Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 16, April 19, 2024
Section 15151 - Standards for Adequacy of an EIR

An EIR should be prepared with a sufficient degree of analysis to provide decisionmakers with information which enables them to make a decision which intelligently takes account of environmental consequences. An evaluation of the environmental effects of a proposed project need not be exhaustive, but the sufficiency of an EIR is to be reviewed in the light of what is reasonably feasible. Disagreement among experts does not make an EIR inadequate, but the EIR should summarize the main points of disagreement among the experts. The courts have looked not for perfection but for adequacy, completeness, and a good faith effort at full disclosure.

Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 14, § 15151

1. Change without regulatory effect amending NOTE filed 10-6-2005 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2005, No. 40).

Note: Authority cited: Section 21083, Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections 21061 and 21100, Public Resources Code; San Francisco Ecology Center v. City and County of San Francisco, 48 Cal. App. 3d 584 (1975).

1. Change without regulatory effect amendingNote filed 10-6-2005 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2005, No. 40).