BILL NUMBER: SB 1435	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Padilla

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 25505 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to energy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1435, as introduced, Padilla. Energy: power facilities: site
certification: notice.
   Existing law grants to the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission with the exclusive power to certify certain
sites and related facilities. Existing law requires a person
proposing to construct a thermal powerplant or electric transmission
line on a site to submit to the commission a notice of intention to
file an application for the certification of the site and related
facilities. Upon receipt of the notice, existing law requires the
commission to cause a summary of the notice to be published in a
newspaper of general circulation, where specified, and to transmit a
copy of the notice to, among other entities, the Public Utilities
Commission and the Attorney General.
   This bill would also require the commission to transmit a copy of
the notice to the Independent System Operator.
   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.  Section 25505 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   25505.  Upon receipt of a notice, the commission shall cause a
summary of the notice to be published in a newspaper of general
circulation in each county in which the sites and related facilities,
or any part thereof, designated in the notice are proposed to be
located. The commission shall also transmit a copy of the notice to
the Public Utilities Commission, for sites and related facilities
requiring a certificate of public convenience and necessity, and to
other federal, state, regional, and local agencies having an interest
in matters pertinent to the proposed facilities at any of the
alternative sites. A copy of the notice shall also be transmitted to
the Attorney General  and to the Independent System Operator
 .