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SB-15 Oil imports: air quality emissions data.(2023-2024)



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SB15:v98#DOCUMENT

Revised  June 20, 2023
Amended  IN  Senate  May 01, 2023

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill
No. 15

Introduced by Senator Grove
(Coauthor: Senator Newman)

December 05, 2022

An act to add Section 39619.9 to the Health and Safety Code, and to add Section 3118 to the Public Resources Code, relating to oil imports.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 15, as amended, Grove. Oil imports: air quality emissions data.
Existing law, the Petroleum Industry Information Reporting Act of 1980, requires refiners, as defined, to report monthly to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission), for each of their refineries, specified information, including the origin of petroleum receipts and the source of imports of finished petroleum products.
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature that the Energy Commission monitor foreign countries that export oil to California and identify on its internet website which of those countries have demonstrated human rights abuses, as documented by the United States Department of State or by human rights organizations, State, and which of those countries have lower environmental standards for the production of oil than California.
Existing law imposes various limitations on the emissions of air contaminants for the control of air pollution from vehicular and nonvehicular sources. Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to post on its internet website information on air quality conditions and trends statewide and to develop and conduct a program of monitoring airborne fine particles smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter (PM 2.5).
This bill would require the state board to annually produce an assessment of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the transportation of oil in California, as specified, and to include that assessment on the board’s internet website. The bill would also require the Energy Commission to annually provide data collected pursuant to the Petroleum Industry Information Reporting Act of 1980 to the state board for the purposes of the assessment.
Under existing law, the Geologic Energy Management Division in the Department of Conservation regulates the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of oil and gas wells in the state.
This bill would require the division to provide a link on its internet website to air quality emissions data associated with the transportation of oil imported into the state.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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


SECTION 1.

 It is the intent of the Legislature that the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission monitor foreign countries that export oil to California and identify on its internet website which of those countries have demonstrated human rights abuses, as documented by the United States Department of State or by human rights organizations, State, and which of those countries have lower environmental standards for the production of oil than California.

SEC. 2.

 Section 39619.9 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

39619.9.
 (a) The state board shall annually produce an assessment of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the transportation of oil in California. The assessment shall be made available on the board’s internet website. The assessment shall include all of the following:
(1) An estimate of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the transportation of oil in this state for oil imported into the state during the previous year broken down by the country of origin.
(2) An estimate of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the transportation of oil in this state for oil produced within the state during the previous year.
(3) A description of the methodology and assumptions used to produce the assessment.
(4) A citation or link to the data used to produce the assessment.
(b) The State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission shall annually provide data collected pursuant to Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 25350) of Division 15 of the Public Resources Code to the state board for the purposes of the assessment required pursuant to subdivision (a).

SEC. 3.

 Section 3118 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:

3118.
 The division shall provide a link on its internet website to air quality emissions data associated with the transportation of oil imported into the state.

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