Bill Text: CA SB389 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: South Coast Air Quality Management District: electric generating facilities: emissions offsets.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-09 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a). [SB389 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB389-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 389	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wright

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2013

   An act to add Section 40440.15 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to the South Coast Air Quality Management District.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 389, as introduced, Wright. South Coast Air Quality Management
District: electric generating facilities: emissions offsets.
   Existing law establishes the South Coast Air Quality Management
District (district) vested with the authority to regulate air
emissions from stationary sources located in the South Coast Air
Basin and establishes a district board to govern the district.
Existing regulations of the district exempt the replacement of
specified electric utility steam boilers at electric generating
facilities from specified emissions offset requirements and allow
those facilities to use, at no cost, emissions offset credits from
the district's internal emissions offset accounts to offset any
emissions increase associated with those projects.
   This bill would prohibit the district, on and after February 1,
2013, from charging a fee for the transfer of an emissions offset
from the district's internal emissions offset account to offset any
emissions increase from the replacement of electric utility steam
boilers at electric generating facilities, pursuant to a specified
south coast district regulation. By adding to the duties of a local
agency, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 40440.15 is added to the Health and Safety
Code, immediately following Section 40440.11, to read:
   40440.15.  On and after February 1, 2013, the south coast district
shall not charge a fee for the transfer of an emissions offset from
the south coast district's internal emissions offset account to
offset any emissions increase from the replacement of electric
utility steam boilers at electric generating facilities pursuant to
south coast district Rule 1304.
  SEC. 2.   If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.