Bill Text: CA AB2609 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Oil: facility response plan.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-28 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2609 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB2609-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2609
| Introduced by Assembly Member Petrie-Norris |
February 18, 2022 |
An act to add Section 8761 to the Public Resources Code, relating to oil spills.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2609, as introduced, Petrie-Norris.
Oil: facility response plan.
Existing federal law requires a facility that could reasonably be expected to cause substantial harm to the environment by discharging oil into or on navigable waters to prepare and submit a Facility Response Plan (FRP). Existing federal law requires a facility that could cause significant and substantial harm to have its FRP approved by an United States Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator. Existing law requires the State Lands Commission and the administrator for oil spill response appointed by the Governor to regulate and oversee oil spill prevention and response efforts.
This bill would require an operator of a onshore facility or marine facility that poses any risk of discharging oil into or on waters and that is required to prepare an FRP pursuant to the federal law to submit the plan to the commission. The bill would
require the commission to post the plan on its internet website within 30 days of receiving the plan from an operator. The bill would require the commission to hold at least 2 public hearings in different parts of the state to receive public comment on the plans.
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 8761 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:8761.
(a) An operator of a onshore facility or marine facility that poses any risk of discharging oil into or on waters and is required to prepare a Facility Response Plan pursuant to Section 311 of the federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. Sec. 1321) shall submit the plan to the commission.(b) The commission shall, within 30 days of receiving a plan from an operator, post the plan on its internet website.
(c) The commission shall hold at least two public hearings in different parts of the state to receive public comment on the plans.
