CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 2nd Ext.

Assembly Bill
No. 8

Introduced by Assembly Member Gipson

September 16, 2024

An act to add Section 39633 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to air pollution, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 8, as introduced, Gipson. Air pollution: tanker vessels: at-berth requirements: delay.
Under existing law, the State Air Resources Board has adopted the Control Measure for Ocean-Going Vessels At Berth regulation to reduce air polluting emissions from ocean-going vessels while docked at berth at California ports. Under that regulation, operators of tanker vessels using auxiliary engines or auxiliary boilers are required to comply with specified requirements to reduce emissions from those vessels through the use of an approved emissions control strategy beginning on January 1, 2025, if visiting the ports of Los Angeles or Long Beach and January 1, 2027, if visiting any other port in the state.
This bill would delay the state board’s ability to enforce those requirements with respect to tanker vessels carrying petroleum crude or petroleum products until January 1, 2027, for those vessels visiting the ports of Los Angeles or Long Beach and January 1, 2029, for those vessels visiting any other port in the state.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Vote: 2/3   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 39633 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

39633.
 (a) The state board shall not enforce the requirement for a tanker vessel to comply with subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 93130.7 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations until the following dates:
(1) January 1, 2027, for tanker vessels visiting the ports of Los Angeles or Long Beach.
(2) January 1, 2029, for tanker vessels visiting any other port in the state.
(b) For purposes of this section, “tanker vessel” has the same meaning as defined in Section 93130.2 of the Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations, but this section only applies to tanker vessels carrying petroleum crude or petroleum products.

SEC. 2.

 This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
In order to delay certain regulatory requirements applicable to tanker vessels carrying petroleum crude or petroleum products before those requirements become operative and before industry has the capacity to comply with those requirements, and to thereby prevent disruptions to the supply of transportation fuels in the state, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.