BILL NUMBER: AB 1030	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 13, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 1, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 4, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Blumenfield

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to add Section 14017 to the Government Code, relating to
renewable energy projects.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1030, as amended, Blumenfield. Renewable energy projects:
Department of Transportation.
   Existing law provides for the Department of Transportation in the
Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, which is administered by
the Director of Transportation. Existing law requires the director
to perform all duties, exercise all powers and jurisdiction, assume
and discharge all responsibilities, and carry out and effect all
purposes vested by law in the department, except as otherwise
expressly provided by law.
   This bill would  require   authorize 
the Institute of the Environment at the University of California, Los
Angeles, in consultation with the director and only upon receipt of
funding, to undertake a project for mapping the renewable energy
development potential of state-owned real property under the
direction and control of the department, as specified. The bill would
also require the director to respond within  30 
 90  days to any proposal to develop a renewable energy
project on state-owned real property as to whether the property is
available for sale, lease, or encroachment permit, and whether the
project would be compatible with the current and projected use of
that property.
   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.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) Solar energy is one of California's most abundant renewable
resources that can help reduce demand in the state for electricity
during peak consumption periods.
   (b) Renewable energy promotes economic development and provides
opportunities to stimulate the creation of jobs for Californians.
   (c) Accelerating the use of renewable energy resources wherever
feasible, such as open space along transportation corridors, can help
to achieve the state's climate change goals required by the
California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Division 25.5
(commencing with Section 38500) of the Health and Safety Code).
   (d) Aesthetically integrated solar and other renewable energy
systems on the more than 150 miles of highway sound walls already
built and potentially more associated with new transportation
projects are untapped resources that could be put to beneficial uses
in generating electricity for neighboring residential areas, reducing
energy costs to government, and promoting the installation of
additional sound walls for neighborhoods.
   (e) Unlike most transportation capital outlays that result in
increased maintenance costs, investments in renewable energy
production and promoting public-private partnerships to use untapped
sound walls and other transit property would generate revenues that
could be used to offset maintenance costs.
   (f) Piezoelectric and other renewable energy technology offer
increasing opportunities for creative beneficial mixed uses of
transportation properties.
  SEC. 2.  Section 14017 is added to the Government Code, to read:
   14017.  (a) The Institute of the Environment at the University of
California, Los Angeles  shall   , may  ,
in consultation with the director, undertake a project for mapping
the renewable energy development potential of state-owned real
property under the direction and control of the department. The
mapping project shall include, but not be limited to, global
positioning mapping to be available for public use that indicates the
solar and wind renewable energy potential for state-owned real
property owned or controlled by the department.
   (b) The director shall respond within  30  
90  days to any proposal to develop a renewable energy project
as to whether the property is available for sale, lease, or
encroachment permit, and whether the project would be compatible with
the current and projected use of that property.
   (c) Subdivision (a) shall be implemented only upon receipt of
funding by the Institute of the Environment for the project described
in that subdivision.