Bill Text: CA AB1775 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: State lands: leasing: oil and gas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-09-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 310, Statutes of 2018. [AB1775 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB1775-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 18, 2018 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 22, 2018 |
Assembly Bill | No. 1775 |
Introduced by Assembly Members Muratsuchi and Limón (Principal coauthor: Senator Jackson) |
January 04, 2018 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
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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 6245 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:6245.
(a) Except as provided in subdivision(b)Except as provided in subdivision (c), the commission or a local trustee shall not enter into any lease renewal, extension, or modification that authorizes a lessee to engage in
any activity upon tidelands and submerged lands in the California Coastal Sanctuary that would result in the increase of oil or natural gas production from, or facilitate additional development of, or exploration for, oil or natural gas from, federal waters.
(c)
(d)
(e)
(1)“California Coastal Sanctuary” means the California Coastal Sanctuary described in Section 6242.
(2)
(3)“Development” means those activities taking place following the discovery of oil and natural gas, including geophysical activity, drilling, platform construction, pipeline construction, and operation of all onshore support facilities that are performed for the purpose of ultimately producing the resources discovered.
(4)“Exploration” means the process of searching for oil and natural gas, including any drilling, whether on or off known geological
structures, including the drilling of a well in which a discovery of oil or natural gas is made and the drilling of any additional delineation well after the discovery that is needed to delineate any reservoir and to enable a lessee to determine whether to proceed with the development and production.
(5)“Federal waters” means those waters and submerged lands lying seaward of the three mile nautical limit, as set forth
by the federal Submerged Lands Act (43 U.S.C. Sec. 1301), that appertain to the United States and are subject to federal jurisdiction and control.
(6)
(7)“Production” means those activities that take place after the successful completion of any means for the removal of oil and natural gas, including that removal, field operations, transfer of resources to shore, operation monitoring, maintenance,
and work-over drilling. “Producing” means undertaking those activities.