No action, other than an exempt, excluded or Type II action, shall be
carried out, approved or funded by any agency, board, body or officers of
the City of Albany, unless it has complied with this chapter.
The time of filing an application for approval or funding of an action
shall commence to run from the date the preliminary determination of environmental
nonsignificance is rendered or, if in lieu of an EAF the applicant prepares
a draft EIS, from the date the applicant files a draft EIS acceptable to the
appropriate agency or the Environmental Quality Review Board.
Environmental review of actions involving a federal agency shall be
processed in accordance with Part 617.16.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this chapter
shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such
judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof but
shall be confined in the operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section
or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment
shall have been rendered.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances and local laws or parts of local
laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
This chapter shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage,
approval, recording and publication as provided by law.