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          SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                             Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair
                            2015 - 2016  Regular  Session

          SB 1441 (Leno) - Natural gas:  methane emissions
          
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          |Version: April 25, 2016         |Policy Vote: E., U., & C. 8 -   |
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          |Urgency: No                     |Mandate: No                     |
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          |Hearing Date: May 27, 2016      |Consultant: Narisha Bonakdar    |
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          Bill  
        Summary:1)  Requires the Air Resources Board (ARB), in consultation with  
          the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and other  
          relevant agencies, to adopt by regulation methane emissions  
          reductions measures for the emissions associated with the  
          extraction, production, storage, processing, and transportation  
          of natural gas used in the state, including imports, that will  
          achieve a reduction in methane emissions of at least 40% below  
          2013 methane emissions levels by 2025. The bill also prohibits  
          the CPUC from allowing gas corporations to recover from  
          ratepayers the value of natural gas lost to the atmosphere  
          during the extraction, production, storage, processing,  
          transportation, and delivery of the natural gas when  
          establishing rates for gas corporations in an individual  
          rulemaking proceeding or in general rate cases.


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             The following information is revised to reflect amendments 
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          Fiscal  
          Impact:  

           Minor and absorbable costs to the CPUC.


          Committee  
          Amendments:  
           Removes the provisions related to the systemwide reduction in  
            methane emissions of at least 40% below 2013 methane emissions  
            levels by 2025. 


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