Bill Text: CA AB1059 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: California Communities Environmental Health Screening.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-10-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 584, Statutes of 2015. [AB1059 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1059-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1059	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 26, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 24, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Eduardo Garcia

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to add Part 2.1 (commencing with Section 71090) to Division
34 of the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental justice.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1059, as amended, Eduardo Garcia. California Communities
Environmental Health Screening.
   Existing law requires the Secretary for Environmental Protection
to convene a Working Group on Environmental Justice to assist the
secretary in developing an agencywide strategy for identifying and
addressing gaps in existing programs, policies, or activities of the
agency's boards, departments, and offices that may impede the
achievement of environmental justice.
   Existing law requires the California Environmental Protection
Agency to identify disadvantaged communities as part of a 3-year
investment plan developed by the Department of Finance for the moneys
collected by the State Air Resources Board resulting from a
market-based compliance mechanism.
   This bill would require the Office of Environmental Health Hazard
 Assessment to include   Assessment,  in
the next update of the California Communities Environmental Health
 Screening,   Screening tool,  developed by
the agency and the office to implement the above requirements,
 relevant necessary environmental data relating to the
  or not later than January 1, 2017, to report to the
Legislature on specified data necessary for updating the indicators
in the tool for  communities in the California-Mexico border
region,  as specified.   including barriers to
accessing that data and studies and plans for obtaining that data.
 The bill would require the  office to make a report to
the Legislature on that data not later than January 1, 2017.
  office, when such data of sufficient quality are
available, to include that data in the next update of the tool. 

   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.  Part 2.1 (commencing with Section 71090) is added to
Division 34 of the Public Resources Code, to read:

      PART 2.1.  California Communities Environmental Health
Screening


   71090.  (a) For purposes of this part, the following terms have
the following meanings:
   (1) "Office" means the Office of Environmental Health Hazard
Assessment.
   (2) "Tool" means the California Communities Environmental Health
Screening, also known as CalEnviroScreen, that is used to identify
disadvantaged communities pursuant to Section 39711 of the Health and
Safety Code.
   (b) (1) In the next update of the tool or by January 1, 2017,
whichever is sooner, the office shall report to the Legislature on
air quality, water quality, and toxic release and hazardous waste
site data necessary for updating the indicators in the tool for
communities located in the California-Mexico border region, including
both of the following:
   (A) Deficiencies in and barriers to accessing necessary data.
   (B) Current and future monitoring studies and plans for obtaining
the data.
   (2) A report submitted pursuant to this subdivision shall be
submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
   (c) For the purposes of subdivision (b), necessary data and
information may include, but need not be limited to, the following:
   (1) Air quality measurements for ozone and particulate matter 2.5
microns and smaller in size in the border region.
   (2) Vehicle emissions at border crossings.
   (3) Complete traffic density data within 150 meters of the border.

   (4) Water quality data for waterways that cross the border.
   (5) Feasibility of incorporating into the tool information from
Mexico contained in the Pollutant Release and Transfer Registry.
   (d) When  the relevant necessary   such 
data  of sufficient quality  identified in subdivisions (b)
and (c) are available for the communities in the California-Mexico
border region, the office shall include that data in the next update
of the tool.