BILL NUMBER: AB 1552	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 20, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 15, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Utilities and Commerce ( 
Fuentes   Bradford  (Chair), Duvall (Vice Chair),
Blakeslee, Buchanan, Carter, Fong, Furutani, Huffman, Krekorian,
Smyth, and Torrico)

                        MARCH 10, 2009

    An act to amend Sections 398.2, 398.3, 398.4, and 398.5
of the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy.   An
act to add Section 13142.6 to the Water Code, relating to water.




	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1552, as amended, Committee on Utilities and Commerce. 
Electricity.   Water: coastal powerplants.  
   Existing law establishes the policy of the state with respect to
water quality as it relates to the coastal marine environment. 

   This bill would provide that for a municipally owned coastal
powerplant that is not new, as defined, the best available technology
for a municipally owned powerplant shall be evaluated on a
facility-wide basis using design flow. The bill would also provide
that considerations regarding the feasibility of installing the best
available technology shall rely on a specified definition of
"feasibility." The bill would require the State Water Resources
Control Board's statewide water quality control policy on the use of
coastal and estuarine waters for powerplant cooling to allow
municipally owned coastal powerplants to comply with certain
requirements.  
   The California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program requires the
Public Utilities Commission to implement annual procurement targets
for the procurement of eligible renewable energy resources, as
defined, for all retail sellers, as defined, to achieve the targets
and goals of the program. Existing law establishes a separate program
under which retail suppliers of electricity disclose accurate,
reliable, and simple to understand information on the generation
attributes of the electricity they propose to sell, including
eligible renewables, as defined. Existing law provides that a retail
supplier that does not make any claims that identify its electricity
sources as different than net system power, as defined, is authorized
to disclose net system electricity sources.  
   This bill would replace the term "retail supplier" with "retail
seller" and would replace the term "eligible renewables" with
"eligible renewable energy resources" in the later described program
and would incorporate definitions for those terms that are applicable
to the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program. The bill
would make other nonsubstantive changes. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 13142.6 is added to the 
 Water Code   , to read:  
   13142.6.  (a) For a municipally owned coastal powerplant that is
not new, as defined in Section 125.83 of Title 40 of the Code of
Federal Regulations as of July 1, 2007, the best available technology
shall be evaluated on a facility-wide basis using design flow.
   (b) Considerations regarding the feasibility of installing the
best available technology for a municipally owned powerplant shall
rely on the definition of feasibility set forth in Section 21061.1 of
the Public Resources Code.
   (c) The implementation schedule contained in the State Water
Resources Control Board's statewide water quality control policy on
the use of coastal and estuarine waters for powerplant cooling,
adopted May 4, 2010, and any subsequent policy modifying the May 4,
2010, policy, shall allow municipally owned coastal powerplants,
until December 31, 2031, to comply unless the system or local
reliability will be jeopardized by this date, in which case the
provisions for compliance date suspensions or modifications contained
in the policy shall apply.  All matter deleted in this version
of the bill appears in the bill as amended in the Senate, July 15,
2010. (JR11)