Bill Text: CA SB1193 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Airports: leaded aviation gasoline.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-08-08 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading. [SB1193 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB1193-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
May 16, 2024 |
Amended
IN
Senate
April 11, 2024 |
Introduced by Senator Menjivar (Principal coauthor: Senator Stern) |
February 14, 2024 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
This bill would require the department, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health and the California Environmental Protection Agency, to identify best management practices for reducing public health and environmental exposures to lead associated with airport operations. The bill would require the department, on or before July 1, 2025, to publish on its internet website initial guidance for airport operators regarding best airport operating practices to minimize environmental and public health impacts of lead exposure. The bill would require the department to publish updated
guidance on or before July 1, 2026, as specified.
This bill would require each airport operator, on or before November 1, 2025, to submit to the department, and begin implementing, a plan to implement the best practices identified by the department to minimize environmental impacts and public health risks associated with leaded aviation gasoline use at airports. The bill would require each airport operator, by December 1, 2026, and each December 1 thereafter, to provide a status report to the department regarding its implementation of the plan, including the status of planning and investments to facilitate the supply of unleaded aviation replacement fuel at the airport, except as specified. The bill would require the department, in consultation with the State
Department of Public Health and the California Environmental Protection Agency, to offer technical assistance to each airport operator that has not submitted a plan, or that does not implement the plan submitted to the department in the manner described in the plan.
Because the above provisions would be a part of the State Aeronautics Act, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 21710) is added to Part 1 of Division 9 of the Public Utilities Code, to read:CHAPTER 8. Leaded Aviation Gasoline
21710.
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:21711.
(a) Except as specified in subdivision (b), an airport operator or aviation retail establishment shall not sell, distribute, or otherwise make available leaded aviation gasoline to consumers consistent with the following timeline:(a)The department, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health and the California Environmental Protection Agency, and using all available information, shall identify best management practices for reducing public health and environmental exposures to lead associated with airport operations.
(b)On or before July 1, 2025, the department shall publish on its internet website initial guidance for airport operators regarding best airport operating practices to minimize environmental and public
health impacts of lead exposure. The department shall publish updated guidance on or before July 1, 2026, and may periodically review and update its guidance thereafter.
(c)In developing the guidance pursuant to subdivision (b), the department shall consider including measures to address all of the following:
(1)Managing runup practices, including by increasing the distance between runup areas and public areas on or off the airport, or increasing the size of runup areas.
(2)Eliminating the castoff of leaded aviation gasoline, and minimizing and mitigating other spills and releases of unexpended leaded aviation gasoline.
(3)Minimizing airport employee exposures.
(4)Minimizing releases of leaded aviation gasoline caused by refueling and maintenance activities at the airport, including processes used to store and dispense aviation gasoline at the airport.
(5)Minimizing idle time and engine runup time.
(6)Educating and financially incentivizing consumers that have the option to purchase and use unleaded aviation replacement fuel at the airport to do so.
(d)The department may adopt rules and regulations to implement, administer, and
enforce the requirements of this chapter.
(a)On or before November 1, 2025, each airport operator shall submit to the department, and begin implementing, a plan to implement the best practices identified by the department pursuant to Section 21712 designed to minimize environmental impacts and public health risks associated with leaded aviation gasoline use at airports.
(b)Each airport operator shall update its plan by the November 1 following an updated publication of the guidance issued by the department pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 21712.
(c)At minimum, each airport operator shall include in its plan both of the following:
(1)A description of how the airport operator plans to implement the operational and logistical recommendations contained in the guidance issued pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 21712.
(2)A plan and budget for the financing of any needed fueling infrastructure improvements at the airport to enable the airport to begin supplying unleaded aviation replacement fuel pursuant to Section 21711.
(d)By December 1, 2026, and each December 1 thereafter, each airport operator shall provide a status report to the department regarding
its implementation of the plan submitted pursuant to subdivision (a), including the status of planning and investments to facilitate the supply of unleaded aviation replacement fuel at the airport.
(e)The department, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health and the California Environmental Protection Agency, shall offer technical assistance to each airport operator that has not submitted a plan pursuant to subdivision (a), or that does not implement the plan submitted to the department in the manner described in the plan.
(f)This section does not apply to the operator of an airport at which
leaded aviation gasoline is not sold, distributed, or otherwise made available. When an airport ceases to sell, distribute, or otherwise make available leaded aviation gasoline, the airport operator shall notify the department within 30 days of the cessation of the use of leaded aviation gasoline at the airport.