RCRC staff is requesting comments on the provisions of Assembly Bill 823 (Eggman). AB 823 would require an applicant for a project that involves the conversion of agricultural land to a permanent or long-term nonagricultural use to mitigate the identified environmental impacts associated with the conversion through the permanent protection and conservation of land suitable for agricultural use. Agricultural land is defined to mean land currently used for the purpose of producing an agricultural commodity for commercial purposes, land left fallow under a crop rotational program, or land enrolled in an agricultural subsidy or set-aside program.

AB 823 also specifies certain requirements that the mitigation measures must meet, thus establishing minimum statewide mitigation standards. The text of AB 823 can be accessed here. Assembly Member Susan Eggman (D-Stockton) is the Chair of the Assembly Agriculture Committee.

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