New CEQA Guidelines for Tribal Cultural Resources

LOS ANGELES—CEQA Guidelines for tribal cultural resources are changing. Now, tribal cultural resources are a separate category under CEQA, and in July 2016, the guidelines will be revised, according to Michelle Hickey, of counsel at Pircher, Nichols & Meeks. To find out more about these changes and how they will affect developers, we sat down with Hickey for an exclusive interview. Here, she talks about the changes to the guidelines, what happens when tribal boundaries overlap and what developers need to know to navigate through these projects.

GlobeSt.com: How are tribal cultural resources treated differently from the past?