Bill Text: CA AB1611 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Oil spills: potential casualties with submerged oil pipelines: vessels: reporting.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-06-21 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Failed passage. [AB1611 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB1611-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 15, 2022 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Davies (Coauthor: Assembly Member Nguyen) |
January 05, 2022 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 8670.25.6 is added to the Government Code, to read:8670.25.6.
(a) Without regard to intent or negligence, when a vessel has an anchor down in an anchorage designated as proximate to a duly published submerged oil pipeline zone, that vessel is a vessel involved in a potential casualty with a submerged oil pipeline when it moves outside of the anchorage with its anchor down.SEC. 2.
Section 8670.64.5 is added to the Government Code, to read:8670.64.5.
A vessel operator who fails to make the report required pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 8670.25.6 shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) and not more than one million dollars ($1,000,000) for each violation.(a)A person shall notify the Department of Conservation, the Office of the State Fire Marshal, the Office of Oil Spill Prevention and Response, the United States Coast Guard, and the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration that a vessel hit or likely hit a pipeline in waters of the state, within 24 hours of knowing that the vessel hit or likely hit the pipeline.
(b)A person who fails to provide the notice required pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) and not more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000).
(c)A person shall be subject to an additional civil penalty of up to one thousand
dollars ($1,000) per gallon spilled in excess of 1,000 gallons of oil that was discharged from the pipeline when that person fails to provide the notification described in subdivision (a).
(d)For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
(1)“Likely hit” includes, but is not limited to, a vessel, with anchor down, breaching a known buffer zone designed to protect pipelines.
(2)“Vessel” means a vessel, as defined in Section 21 of the Harbors and Navigation Code, of 300 gross tons or more.