The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires the lead agency to take more responsibility when it comes to the preparation of the environmental analysis pertaining to a given project. Before the analysis, it is upon the agency to determine whether the undertaking at hand is a project or not.

Staff Report

Environmental Determination

Section 15378(a) of the CEQA recognizes a project as “the whole of an action, which has a potential for resulting in either a direct physical change in the environment or a reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environme