Bill Text: CA AB3163 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 3163 (Prior Session Legislation)

NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft

Bill Title: Energy: biomethane: procurement.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2020-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 358, Statutes of 2020. [AB3163 Detail]

Download: California-2019-AB3163-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 3163

Introduced by Assembly Member Salas
(Coauthors: Senators Dahle, Galgiani, and Nielsen)

February 21, 2020

An act to amend Section 25420 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to biogas.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 3163, as introduced, Salas. Biogas.

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 the appropriate concentrations of those constituents, as specified. Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to adopt standards for constituents that may be found in biogas that is to be injected into a common carrier pipeline and to adopt monitoring, testing, reporting, and recordkeeping requirements for the biogas.

This bill would revise the definition of biogas to include gas that is produced from the noncombustion thermal conversion of certain biomass feedstock, as provided.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO

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

SECTION 1.

Section 25420 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

25420.

For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:

(a) “Biogas” means gas that is produced from the anaerobic decomposition of organic ~~material.~~ material or the noncombustion thermal conversion of eligible biomass feedstock consistent with Section 40106 of the Public Resources Code.

(b) “Biomethane” means biogas that meets the standards adopted pursuant to subdivisions (c) and (d) of Section 25421 for injection into a common carrier pipeline.

(d) “CalRecycle” means the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery.

(e) “Commission” means the Public Utilities Commission.

(f) “Common carrier pipeline” means a gas conveyance pipeline, located in California, that is owned or operated by a utility or gas corporation, excluding a dedicated pipeline.

(g) “Dedicated pipeline” means a conveyance of biogas or biomethane that is not part of a common carrier pipeline system, and which conveys biogas from a biogas producer to a conditioning facility or an electrical generation facility.

(h) “Department” means the Department of Toxic Substances Control.

(i) “Gas corporation” has the same meaning as defined in Section 222 of the Public Utilities Code and is subject to rate regulation by the commission.

(j) “Hazardous waste landfill” means a landfill that is a hazardous waste facility, as defined in Section 25117.1.

(k) “Office” means the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment.

(l) “Person” means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, partnership, association, business concern, limited liability company, or corporation. “Person” also includes any city, county, district, and the state or any department or agency ~~thereof,~~ of a city, county, district, or the state, or the federal government or any department or agency ~~thereof~~ of the federal government to the extent permitted by law.