BILL NUMBER: AB 2972	CHAPTERED  09/18/06

	CHAPTER  298
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 18, 2006
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 18, 2006
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 16, 2006
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 18, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 25, 2006

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nava

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2006

   An act to add Section 6872 to the Public Resources Code, relating
to oil and gas leases.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2972, Nava  Oil and gas leases: state waters.
   Existing law authorizes the State Lands Commission to lease tide
and submerged lands and beds of navigable rivers and lakes for the
extraction of oil and gas, as specified.
   This bill would require, if an application for oil and gas
development in state waters that is determined to be incomplete by
the commission continues to remain incomplete one year after the date
of the first incomplete notice sent to the applicant by the
commission, the application to be considered withdrawn. The bill
would authorize, if an application has been withdrawn in that manner,
the applicant to submit a new application.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 6872 is added to the Public Resources Code, to
read:
   6872.  (a) If an application for oil and gas development in state
waters that is determined to be incomplete by the commission
continues to remain incomplete one year after the date of the first
incomplete notice sent to the applicant by the commission, the
application shall be considered withdrawn.
   (b) If an application has been withdrawn pursuant to subdivision
(a), the applicant may submit a new application.