BILL NUMBER: AB 1452	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 30, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 13, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Skinner

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to add Section  38600   38562.5 
to the Health and Safety Code, relating to air pollution.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1452, as amended, Skinner. State Air Resources Board: cement.
   Existing law, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006,
requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt a statewide
greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse
gas emission level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and to adopt
rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the
maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas
emission reductions. Existing law designates the state board as the
state agency responsible for the preparation of the state
implementation plan required by the federal Clean Air Act, and
requires the state board to coordinate the activities of local air
districts to comply with the act.
   This bill would require the state board, by January 1, 2011, to
develop and adopt limitations on greenhouse gas emissions that result
from the production of all cement sold in the state. The bill would
require the limitations to apply to cement manufactured in the state
and outside of the state. The bill would require the state board to
include the greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the
transportation  and delivery of all cement sold within
  of cement to  the state when calculating the
limitations.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section  38600   38562.5  is
added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:
    38600.   38562.5.   (a) The 
State Air Resources Board  state board  shall, on
or before January 1, 2011, develop and adopt limitations on
greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the production of all cement
sold in the state. The limitations shall be applicable to cement that
is manufactured outside of or within the state for sale in
California. In calculating the limitations, the state board shall
include all greenhouse gas emissions that result from the
transportation of the cement to the state  as well as the
emissions that result from delivery within the state  . The
limitations shall apply uniformly to all cement sold within the state
whether produced in the state or elsewhere.
   (b) For purposes of this section, "cement" means a building
material that is produced by heating mixtures of limestone and other
minerals or additives at high temperatures in a rotary kiln to form
clinker, followed by cooling and grinding with blended additives.
Finished cement is a powder used with water, sand, and gravel to make
concrete and mortar.
   (c) For purposes of this section, "clinker" means the mass of
fused material produced in a cement kiln from which finished cement
is manufactured by milling and grinding.