Bay Area Air Quality Management District and South Coast Air Quality Management District: policies: oil refineries.
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Majority
Fiscal committee
No
Appropriation
No
Current location
Natural Resources
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
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Overview
This bill requires the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and the South Coast Air Quality Management District to analyze the potential impacts of their policies on oil refineries. Specifically, they must assess the costs of compliance, consumer costs, impacts on state and local tax revenue, refinery employment, and the statewide gasoline supply. The districts must then make a good faith effort to minimize any negative effects identified, expanding the definition of ‘socioeconomic impact’ to include these additional considerations.
Key provisions
- The Bay Area Air Quality Management District and South Coast Air Quality Management District must analyze existing and future policies impacting oil refineries.
- Districts must determine the cost of compliance, consumer costs, tax revenue impacts, employment effects, and gasoline supply impacts of these policies.
- Districts must make a good faith effort to minimize adverse impacts identified.
- The definition of ‘socioeconomic impact’ is expanded to include consumer costs, tax revenue, and gasoline supply impacts, specifically for oil refinery regulations.
- The bill requires a review of specific regulations (Regulation 3, Regulation 6 Rule 5, Regulation III, and Rule 1109.1).
- The Health and Safety Code is amended to include new sections outlining these requirements.
- The bill mandates a finding that a special statute is necessary due to the potential negative effects of regulations on oil refineries and the state’s fuel supply.
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Primary sponsor
Ávila Farías
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