Bill Text: CA AB3027 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: Low-Carbon Fuel Standard regulations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-16 - Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. [AB3027 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB3027-Amended.html
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Amended
IN
Assembly
March 12, 2020 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member O’Donnell |
February 21, 2020 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law requires the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) to evaluate the environmental and health risks posed by various hazardous substances. Existing law requires OEHHA, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, and the California Environmental Protection Agency, to compile a list of constituents of concern that could pose risks to human health and that are found in biogas, as defined, at concentrations that significantly exceed the concentrations of those constituents in natural gas. Existing law requires OEHHA to determine the health protective levels for that list, as specified, and requires the state board to identify realistic exposure scenarios and the health risks associated with those scenarios, as specified. Existing law requires the state board to
determine appropriate concentrations of those constituents, as specified. Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to adopt standards for constituents that may be found in biomethane that is to be injected into a common carrier pipeline to protect human health and pipeline integrity and safety, and requires the commission to adopt monitoring, testing, reporting, and recordkeeping requirements for biogas.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to evaluate alternative delivery methods of biogas that reduces the emissions of methane gas.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 38567.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:38567.5.
(a) The state board, through a public process that may include a workshop, shall consider allowing renewable natural gas or biogas that is delivered via a common carrier pipeline to a crude oil production or transport facility from a source that the state board determines directly reduces emissions of methane in the state to generate Credits for Producing and Transporting Crudes Using Innovative Methods under the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard regulations (Subarticle 7 (commencing with Section 95480) of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations).It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to evaluate alternative delivery methods of biogas that reduces the emissions of methane gas.
