Bill Text: CA AB2677 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 2677 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Oil spill: contingency plan: railroad.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-29 - From committee without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a). [AB2677 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2677-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 2677	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Rodriguez

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to  amend Section 8670.46 of the Government
  add Section 7719 to the Public Utilities  Code,
relating to oil spills.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2677, as amended, Rodriguez.  Oil Spill Response Trust
Fund.   Oil spill: contingency plan: railroad. 

   Existing law requires the California Environmental Protection
Agency, in consultation with specified entities, to develop a state
railroad accident prevention and immediate deployment plan containing
a comprehensive set of policies and directions to minimize the
potential damage to the public health and safety, property, and the
environment that might result from accidents involving railroad
activities in the state.  
   This bill would require the agency, on or before January 1, 2017,
and in consultation with specified entities, to develop and submit to
the Governor and the Legislature a report containing recommendations
for a comprehensive and coordinated oil spill contingency plan
designed to address inland oil spills resulting from the
transportation of crude oil by railroad.  
   The Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act
generally requires the administrator for oil spill response, acting
at the direction of the Governor, to implement activities relating to
oil spill response, including emergency drills and preparedness, and
oil spill containment and cleanup, and to represent the state in any
coordinated response efforts with the federal government. Existing
law establishes the Oil Spill Response Trust Fund in the State
Treasury. Moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the
administrator generally for the purposes of covering costs of
response, containment, and cleanup of oil spills into marine waters.
 
   This bill would prohibit the use of moneys in the fund for any
purpose other than the oil spill response and cleanup activities
authorized by the administrator pursuant to these provisions.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 7719 is added to the  
Public Utilities Code   , to read:  
   7719.  (a) (1) On or before January 1, 2017, the California
Environmental Protection Agency, in consultation with the State Fire
Marshal, interested stakeholders, relevant local agencies, and all of
the entities listed in paragraphs (1) to (16), inclusive, of
subdivision (a) of Section 7718, shall develop and submit to the
Governor and the Legislature a report containing recommendations for
a comprehensive and coordinated oil spill contingency plan designed
to address inland oil spills resulting from the transportation of
crude oil by railroad.
   (2) The report submitted to the Legislature pursuant to paragraph
(1) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the
Government Code.
   (b) In developing the report, the Secretary for Environmental
Protection shall consider which state or local agencies are best
suited to serve as the primary responder for inland oil spill
response.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 8670.46 of the Government
Code is amended to read:
   8670.46.  (a) The Oil Spill Response Trust Fund is hereby created
in the State Treasury. Notwithstanding Section 13340, the money in
the fund is continuously appropriated to the administrator for
expenditure, without regard to fiscal years, for the purposes of this
article.
   (b) No loan, expenditure, or other use of moneys in the fund shall
be made for any purpose other than the oil spill response and clean
up activities authorized by the administrator pursuant to this
article.
   (c) For the purposes of this article, "fund" refers to the Oil
Spill Response Trust Fund.