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CONSENT
Bill No: AB 2912
Author: Committee on Natural Resources
Amended: 6/30/16 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE NATURAL RES. & WATER COMMITTEE: 8-0, 6/28/16
AYES: Pavley, Stone, Allen, Hertzberg, Hueso, Jackson,
Monning, Vidak
NO VOTE RECORDED: Wolk
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 78-0, 5/12/16 (Consent) - See last page for
vote
SUBJECT: Oil spills
SOURCE: Author
DIGEST: This bill makes several technical and clarifying
changes to the Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and
Response Act.
ANALYSIS:
Existing law:
1)Establishes the Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention
and Response Act (Act). The Act created the Office of Spill
Prevention and Response (OSPR) in the Department of Fish and
Wildlife. The Act complements and builds upon federal oil
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spill law and regulations. The Act contains numerous
provisions including, among others, defined terms and
requirements for oil spill planning and response and for
financial responsibility and damages in the event of a spill.
2)Establishes OSPR's mission to provide the best achievable
protection of California's natural resources and the public
health and safety by preventing, preparing for, and responding
to spills of oil and other deleterious materials to all waters
of the state, and to restore and enhance affected resources.
3)Provides for the appointment of the OSPR administrator to lead
OSPR.
This bill makes several technical and clarifying changes to the
Act. In particular, the bill restores the definition of "marine
waters" inadvertently deleted by a 2014 Public Resources Budget
Trailer Bill (SB 861, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review,
Chapter 35, Statutes of 2014), among other technical and
clarifying changes.
Background
In 2014, prompted by the expected growth in the transportation
of crude oil by rail in the state, the Public Resources Budget
Trailer Bill made significant changes to the Act in order to
extend OSPR's ability to prepare for and respond to inland oil
spills.
Existing federal and state laws and regulations provide for an
Incident Command structure to manage oil spill response. Both
federal (the United States Coast Guard in marine waters or the
United States Environmental Protection Agency inland) and state
(OSPR) entities are part of Incident Command as is the
responsible party (and/or its contractors). Local responders
may also participate.
Comments
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As noted in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee analysis,
this bill "makes conforming and other nonsubstantive changes to
the Government Code that provide clean up from recently enacted
bills and others that simply make needed technical changes."
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal
Com.:YesLocal: No
SUPPORT: (Verified8/1/16)
None received
OPPOSITION: (Verified8/1/16)
None received
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 78-0, 5/12/16
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Travis Allen, Arambula, Atkins, Baker,
Bigelow, Bloom, Bonilla, Bonta, Brough, Brown, Calderon,
Campos, Chang, Chau, Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper,
Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Beth Gaines,
Gallagher, Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson,
Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Grove, Hadley, Harper, Roger
Hernández, Holden, Irwin, Jones, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder,
Lopez, Low, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina,
Melendez, Mullin, Nazarian, Obernolte, O'Donnell, Olsen,
Patterson, Quirk, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago,
Steinorth, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber,
Wilk, Williams, Wood, Rendon
NO VOTE RECORDED: Burke, Jones-Sawyer
Prepared by:Katharine Moore / N.R. & W. / (916) 651-4116
8/3/16 19:11:12
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