BILL NUMBER: AB 1496	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Skinner

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act relating to the environment.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1496, as introduced, Skinner. Environment: supplemental
environmental projects.
   Existing law authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board
and the regional water quality control board to reduce a civil
penalty assessed against a person in violation of water discharge
standards if the person agrees to undertake a supplemental
environmental project (SEP).
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to require the California Environmental Protection Agency
to ensure, to the maximum extent possible, that an SEP is
implemented in the community that suffered the environmental or
public health consequences of a violation or enforcement matter
triggering the SEP.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to require the California Environmental Protection Agency
to ensure, to the maximum extent possible, that a supplemental
environmental project (SEP) is implemented in the community that
suffered the environmental or public health consequences of a
violation or enforcement matter triggering the SEP.