Bill Text: CA AB1102 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Beach fire rings: coastal development permit.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 7-4)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-08-14 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB1102 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1102-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1102	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 21, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Grove

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to  amend Section 38562 of   add
Section 38572 to  the Health and Safety Code, relating to air
resources.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1102, as amended, Grove. Air resources: greenhouse gas
emissions. 
   The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 authorizes the
State Air Resources Board, known as ARB, by regulation, to adopt a
market-based compliance mechanism to further the achievement of the
statewide greenhouse gas emissions limits.  
   This bill would require the ARB, if the ARB adopts a market-based
compliance mechanism that provides for the auctioning of greenhouse
gas allowances, to auction program allowances consigned by an
electrical corporation or a local publicly owned electric utility
before auctioning any other allowances.  
   Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt and
revise regulations regarding greenhouse gas emission limits and
emission reduction measures, and to authorize the establishment of a
system of market-based declining annual aggregate emission limits for
sources or categories of sources that emit greenhouse gas emissions.
 
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the above
provision. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 38572 is added to the 
 Health and Safety Code   , to read:  
   38572.  If the state board adopts a market-based compliance
mechanism pursuant to this part that provides for the auctioning of
greenhouse gas allowances, the state board shall auction program
allowances consigned by an electrical corporation or a local publicly
owned electric utility before auctioning any other allowances. 

  SECTION 1.    Section 38562 of the Health and
Safety Code is amended to read:
   38562.  (a) On or before January 1, 2011, the state board shall
adopt greenhouse gas emission limits and emission reduction measures
by regulation to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and
cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in furtherance
of achieving the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, to become
operative beginning on January 1, 2012.
   (b) In adopting regulations pursuant to this section and Part 5
(commencing with Section 38570), to the extent feasible and in
furtherance of achieving the statewide greenhouse gas emissions
limit, the state board shall do all of the following:
   (1) Design the regulations, including distribution of emissions
allowances where appropriate, in a manner that is equitable, seeks to
minimize costs and maximize the total benefits to California, and
encourages early action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
   (2) Ensure that activities undertaken to comply with the
regulations do not disproportionately impact low-income communities.
   (3) Ensure that entities that have voluntarily reduced their
greenhouse gas emissions before the implementation of this section
receive appropriate credit for early voluntary reductions.
   (4) Ensure that activities undertaken pursuant to the regulations
complement, and do not interfere with, efforts to achieve and
maintain federal and state ambient air quality standards and to
reduce toxic air contaminant emissions.
   (5) Consider cost-effectiveness of these regulations.
   (6) Consider overall societal benefits, including reductions in
other air pollutants, diversification of energy sources, and other
benefits to the economy, environment, and public health.
   (7) Minimize the administrative burden of implementing and
complying with these regulations.
   (8) Minimize leakage.
   (9) Consider the significance of the contribution of each source
or category of sources to statewide emissions of greenhouse gases.
   (c) In furtherance of achieving the statewide greenhouse gas
emissions limit, by January 1, 2011, the state board may adopt a
regulation that establishes a system of market-based declining annual
aggregate emission limits for sources or categories of sources that
emit greenhouse gas emissions, applicable from January 1, 2012, to
December 31, 2020, inclusive, that the state board determines will
achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective
reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, in the aggregate, from those
sources or categories of sources.
   (d) Any regulation adopted by the state board pursuant to this
part or Part 5 (commencing with Section 38570) shall ensure all of
the following:
   (1) The greenhouse gas emission reductions achieved are real,
permanent, quantifiable, verifiable, and enforceable by the state
board.
   (2) For regulations pursuant to Part 5 (commencing with Section
38570), the reduction is in addition to any greenhouse gas emission
reduction otherwise required by law or regulation, and any other
greenhouse gas emission reduction that otherwise would occur.
   (3) If applicable, the greenhouse gas emission reduction occurs
over the same time period and is equivalent in amount to a direct
emission reduction required pursuant to this division.
   (e) The state board shall rely upon the best available economic
and scientific information and its assessment of existing and
projected technological capabilities when adopting the regulations
required by this section.
   (f) The state board shall consult with the Public Utilities
Commission in the development of the regulations as they affect
electricity and natural gas providers to minimize duplicative or
inconsistent regulatory requirements.
   (g) After January 1, 2011, the state board may revise regulations
adopted pursuant to this section and adopt additional regulations to
further the provisions of this division.