BILL NUMBER: SB 682	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 25, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 11, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Calderon

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to add Section 39619.9 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to electricity generation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 682, as amended, Calderon. Electricity generation: emissions.
   The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the
State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with
monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases.
   This bill would require the state board,  by April 1,
2012, to assess   if the state board develops an
assessment of  the extent and magnitude of potential greenhouse
gas emission reductions associated with using waste or stranded gas
for electricity generation  , to provide a copy of the assessment
to the Senate Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications, the
Senate Committee on Environmental Quality, the Assembly Committee on
Natural Resources, and the   Assembly Committee on
Utilities and Commerce  .
   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 39619.9 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   39619.9.   (a)     By
April 1, 2012, the state board shall assess   If the
state board develops an assessment of  the extent and magnitude
of potential greenhouse gas emission reductions associated with using
waste or stranded gas for electricity generation  , the state
board shall provide a copy of the assessment to the Senate Committee
on Energy, Utilities and Communications, the Senate Committee on
Environmental Quality, the Assembly   Committee on Natural
Resources, and the Assembly Committee on Utilities and Commerce 
. 
   (b) The assessment shall include both of the following: 

   (1) An estimate of the cost per ton of avoided carbon dioxide
emissions resulting from the generation of electricity using waste or
stranded gas, given reasonable assumptions about both the generation
technology and configuration used to produce electricity from waste
or stranded gas.  
   (2) The efficiency of the electricity generation that waste or
stranded gas electricity generation would displace.