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AB-460 Energy transmission: Path 15.(2001-2002)

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Amended  IN  Assembly  April 17, 2001
Amended  IN  Assembly  May 31, 2001

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2001–2002 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 460

Introduced  by  Assembly Member Wyman

February 20, 2001

An act relating to energy, and making an appropriation therefor.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 460, as amended, Wyman. Energy: transmission: Path 15.
The existing California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect.
This bill would appropriate $10,000,000 to require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to allocate $10,000,000 to the Transmission Authority of Northern California for the purpose of funding the environmental studies of Path 15, to be completed by the Transmission Authority of Northern California during 2001 as defined, subject to the appropriation of funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

The sum of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission for the purpose of funding the environmental studies of Path 15, to be completed by the Transmission Authority of Northern California during 2001.

SECTION 1.

 The State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission shall allocate, subject to the appropriation of funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act, the sum of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) to the Transmission Authority of Northern California for the purpose of funding the environmental studies of Path 15. For purposes of this section, “Path 15” is a group of high-voltage power lines located between Tracy and Bakersfield that transmit electricity between northern and southern California.