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California Crunch Time: Full Assembly and Senate to Vote on Critical Environmental Bills This Week
By Traci Sheehan
Executive Director
Planning and Conservation League
This Friday is the deadline for all bills that were introduced this legislative session to pass from their house of origin and proceed to their second house.
Several of the bills that will be debated on the floor of the Senate and Assembly this week could significantly improve the quality of life for Californians, improve our economy and protect our state's natural resources. Here are some highlights:
SB 1165 (Kuehl) - Strengthening CEQA
Ensures greater transparency in the creation of draft Environmental Impact Reports (EIRs) under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and requires EIRs older than five years to be reviewed again for new impacts before they can be used to approve a project.
AB 2046 (Jones)-Water Supply Assessments: Groundwater
Prohibits water suppliers from using contaminated groundwater in water supply assessments for new development until that water is treated to current health and drinking water standards.
AB 2153 (Krekorian/Hancock) - Water Efficiency and Security Act
Ensures that California can meet water needs, adapt to climate change, and accommodate growth by requiring developments to incorporate water efficiencies and requiring that all impacts on water demands for new development are fully mitigated through water efficiency and development of other local water supplies.
AB 2175 (Laird/Feuer) - Water Conservation
Requires a twenty percent reduction in urban per capita water use by 2020. Requires the Department to set a numeric target for agricultural water efficiency, not less than 500,000 acre feet by 2020. Requires agricultural water suppliers to identify their cost-effective water conservation potential and adopt five and ten year water savings targets.
AB 1920 (Huffman) -Net Surplus Solar Compensation Act Of 2007
Allows owners of small solar and small-wind energy systems to receive wholesale rate compensation from their electric utility for any surplus electricity generated at their home or business on an annual basis.
AB 2522 (Arambula) - San Joaquin Unified Air Pollution Control District
Authorizes the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District to increase the registration fee for vehicles registered in the district by up to $30 to fund programs to help meet state and federal ambient air quality standards.
AB 2093 (Jones) - General Plans
Requires cities and counties to include policies that address the emission of greenhouse gases in their General Plans.
AB 2558 (Feuer/Levine) - LA County MTA Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Fee
Authorizes the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to impose a fee on either motor vehicle fuels or vehicle registrations to fund countywide climate change mitigation.
AB 1879 (Feuer & Huffman) - Hazardous Materials: Toxic Substances
Authorizes the State to take a range of steps to regulate six dangerous chemicals-lead, mercury, cadmium, PBDEs, hexavalent chromium and phthalates-in all consumer products.
AB 2058 (Levine/Brownley/Davis) - Recycling: Plastic Carryout Bags
Builds on existing successful Bag Reuse and Recycling program. Establishes nation's most ambitious plastic bag reduction targets (thirty-five percent by 2011 and seventy percent by 2012). Establishes "Ireland Style" advance disposal fee (15 cents/bag) if targets are not met.
AB 2640 - Solid Waste: Compostable Organic Management
Requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board to implement policies and programs to reduce by fifty percent the amount of compostable organics being landfilled. Has the potential to reduce CO2 emissions by 2-3 million tons annually.
AB 2694 (Ma) - Children's product safety: lead poisoning prevention
Prohibits the use of lead above specified levels in children's products.
Stay tuned next week for a summary of how these and other environmental bills fare during the grueling floor vote process!
Traci Sheehan is the Executive Director of the Planning and Conservation League, a statewide, nonprofit lobbying organization. For more than thirty years, PCL has fought to develop a body of environmental laws in California that is the best in the United States. PCL staff review virtually every environmental bill that comes before the California Legislature each year. It has testified in support or opposition of thousands of bills to strengthen California's environmental laws and fight off rollbacks of environmental protections.
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