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Committee advances narrow CEQA exemption for secondary wildfire egress routes amid concerns about safeguards
Summary
AB 66, which would create a targeted CEQA exemption to expedite construction of secondary emergency evacuation routes in high fire-risk areas, passed out of committee as amended after debate about whether the bill provides sufficient guardrails to protect archaeological, habitat, and other environmental resources.
Assemblymember Tangipa (author) told the committee AB 66 would allow local agencies to build emergency evacuation routes in specified high fire-risk areas more quickly by providing a targeted CEQA exemption for secondary egress projects identified by the Board of Forestry. "This bill removes unnecessary roadblocks so that communities can build emergency evacuation routes in high risk areas without getting tangled in years of red…
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