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2005 California Streets and Highways Code Sections 227-227.1 Relief Act
STREETS AND HIGHWAYS CODESECTION 227-227.1
227. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The neighborhood surrounding the former Cypress section of Route 880 in Oakland has suffered great and unusual hardship due to the freeway's collapse during the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake and its subsequent demolition. (2) In addition to the hardship and suffering related to the freeway disaster, the Cypress neighborhood had endured for many years the pollution, noise, and environmental degradation of having a freeway cut through the neighborhood. (3) The Cypress neighborhood will face additional hardships related to the Cypress freeway reconstruction project for, unlike other freeway projects elsewhere, this will be the second time that residents and businesses in that neighborhood will be required to endure freeway construction-related problems, dislocations, and sacrifices. (b) In order to alleviate a portion of those problems for residents and businesses in the Cypress neighborhood, the Legislature has enacted this article. 227.1. (a) In acquiring property for the Cypress freeway reconstruction project from the owner of a small business, the department shall make no deduction from the compensation to be paid for the property for hazardous substance removal and related remedial activities if the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, and the Alameda County Department of Health all determine that the hazardous substance does not threaten to degrade the beneficial use of waters of the state, and does not otherwise pose a substantial hazard to human health or the environment. (b) Nothing in this section relieves any prior owner from responsibility for any required cleanup or abatement action. (c) For purposes of this section, "small business" means a for-profit enterprise having a net worth of not more than six million dollars ($6,000,000) and after tax profits of not more than four million dollars ($4,000,000).
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