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California Environmental Quality Act

País/Territorio
Estados Unidos de América
Subdivisión territorial
California
Tipo de documento
Legislación
Fecha
1970 (2022)
Fuente
FAO, FAOLEX
Materia
Medio ambiente gen., Pesca, Especies silvestres y ecosistemas
Palabra clave
Calidad del aire/contaminación del aire Eco-productos/ecoprocesos EIA Subvención/incentivo Contaminación acústica Control de la contaminación Protección del medio ambiente Recopilación de datos/informes Desarrollo sostenible Zonificación Protecíon de las especies Manejo y conservación pesquera Ordenación/conservación
Área geográphica
Americas, Ártico, Pacífico Oriental, América del Norte, Atlántico Norte
Resumen

This Act provides to develop and maintain a high-quality environment now and in the future, and take all action necessary to protect, rehabilitate, and enhance the environmental quality of the state; take all action necessary to provide the people of this state with clean air and water, enjoyment of aesthetic, natural, scenic, and historic environmental qualities, and freedom from excessive noise; prevent the elimination of fish or wildlife species due to man’s activities, insure that fish and wildlife populations do not drop below self-prepetuating levels, and preserve for future generations representations of all plant and animal communities and examples of the major periods of California history; ensure that the long-term protection of the environment, consistent with the provision of a decent home and suitable living environment for every Californian, shall be the guiding criterion in public decisions; create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony to fulfill the social and economic requirements of present and future generations; require governmental agencies at all levels to develop standards and procedures necessary to protect environmental quality; and require governmental agencies at all levels to consider qualitative factors as well as economic and technical factors and long-term benefits and costs, in addition to short-term benefits and costs and to consider alternatives to proposed actions affecting the environment.

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Página web
leginfo.legislature.ca.gov