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Assembly Bill 1083 would have rolled back some of the exemptions that the governor and the Legislature passed in June with Senate Bill 131.<\/a> The exemptions to CEQA, a law that requires public agencies to identify and mitigate significant environmental impacts from their proposed projects, allowed \u201cadvanced manufacturing\u201d projects to forgo environmental review.<\/p>\n

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