(a)  Notwithstanding Section 21090 of the Public Resources Code, the Inland Valley Development Agency may determine at a noticed public hearing that the amendment of a redevelopment plan for the Norton Air Force Base Redevelopment Project Area pursuant to this chapter is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code), except that projects implementing the redevelopment plan, including specific plans, rezonings, and ministerial projects that may have a significant effect on the environment, shall be subject to the California Environmental Quality Act. The environmental document for any implementing project shall include an analysis and mitigation of potential cumulative impacts that otherwise will not be known until an environmental impact report for the redevelopment plan is certified.

(b)  The notice of the public hearing required pursuant to subdivision (a) shall include the date, time, and place of the hearing, a brief description of the proposed project and its location, the date when notice will be provided pursuant to Section 21092 of the Public Resources Code, and the address where copies of the notice of exemption are available for review.

(c)  The notice required by this section shall be given to all organizations and individuals who have previously requested notice pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act, and shall be given by publication, no fewer times than required by Section 6061 of the Government Code, by the public agency in a newspaper of general circulation in the area affected by the proposed project.

(d)  If the Inland Valley Development Agency determines, pursuant to subdivision (a), that the amendment of a redevelopment plan is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act, the redevelopment agency shall prepare and certify an environmental impact report for the redevelopment plan amendment within 12 months after the effective date of the ordinance amending the redevelopment plan.

(e)  An environmental impact report prepared and certified for a specific plan or other comprehensive land use plan for the applicable portion of the Inland Valley Redevelopment Project Area shall satisfy the requirement of subdivision (d) if the plan covers the same area and project as the amendment to the redevelopment plan and is certified within 12 months after the effective date of the ordinance amending the redevelopment plan.

(f)  The redevelopment agency shall revise the redevelopment plan if necessary to mitigate any impacts and comply with the California Environmental Quality Act and adopt mitigation measures as conditions of project approval.

(g)  This section shall only apply to a redevelopment plan amendment approved on or before September 1, 1995.

(Added by renumbering Section 33320.7 by Stats. 1997, Ch. 580, Sec. 11.5. Effective January 1, 1998.)