California Public Resources Code

§ 71050

PRC § 71050 Effective Jan 1, 1995Div. 34 · Part 2 · Ch. 1

Statute text

The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:

(a)Environmental data is currently required by, and submitted to, a variety of public agencies with jurisdiction at the state, regional, and local levels of government. The same information is often submitted by the regulated community to different public agencies, almost always on one or more paper forms. Since a different format is now required for each such report, data items are required to be reformatted one or more additional times at a cost of time and money that brings no accompanying environmental benefit.

(b)The blizzard of incoming paper reports often exceeds the capacity of a public agency to digest the information. In some cases, the public agency cannot look at or evaluate all of the data received on paper. That problem of data utility is aggravated further by the current wasteful and error-laden practice of retyping data from paper forms into the public agency’s computer data base.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1112, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 1995.