Lena Gonzalez
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 33
Author
Existing law requires a refinery-related community air monitoring system to be installed near each petroleum refinery that meets certain requirements. Existing law requires the owner or operator of a petroleum refinery to develop, install, operate, and maintain a fence-line monitoring system in accordance with guidance developed by the appropriate air quality management district or air pollution control district. Existing law requires the air districts and the owners or operators of refineries to collect real-time data from those monitoring systems, maintain records of that data, and, to the extent feasible, provide to the public the data in a publicly accessible format. This bill would expand the application of these provisions to any "covered facility," defined to include refineries that produce gasoline, diesel fuel, aviation fuel, biofuel, lubricating oil, asphalt, petrochemical feedstock, or other similar products, and to include facilities with operations related to a refinery that are located on contiguous or adjacent properties. The bill would require the refinery-related community air monitoring system and the fence-line monitoring system to be updated or installed on or before January 1, 2028, after a 30-day public comment period, as specified. The bill would require the appropriate air district to establish pollutants for the monitoring systems to monitor and would include certain pollutants identified by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. The bill would authorize the air district to exclude a pollutant for monitoring at those monitoring systems, as provided. The bill would require air districts, on a 5-year basis, to review the list of pollutants being measured and would authorize the air districts to revise the list, as provided. The bill would require the air districts and the owners and operators of refineries to maintain records of the data collected from those systems for at least 5 years and would require the owners and operators to post online, and to notify the public of the availability of, quarterly reports containing certain information. The bill would require owners and operators of covered facilities to notify the air district and the public, as provided, as quickly as possible of any exceedances of specified pollutant thresholds. The bill would require the owners or operators of covered facilities, within 24 hours of a fence-line monitoring system detecting an exceedance of those thresholds, to initiate a root cause analysis and to determine appropriate corrective action, as provided. The bill would require the owners or operators of covered facilities to conduct third-party audits of its fence-line monitoring system, as provided, to ensure the accuracy of the system. Because the bill would impose additional duties on air districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Under existing law, a violation of requirements for stationary sources or any rule, regulation, permit, or order of the state board or of an air district is a crime. Because this bill would impose the monitoring systems requirement on owners or operators of covered facilities engaging in other types of refining processes and would impose additional requirements on owners and operators of covered facilities, a violation of which would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for specified reasons.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate.
Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended.
From inactive file.
Ordered to third reading.
Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Zbur.
Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Bryan.
Read third time and amended.
Ordered to third reading.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (August 23).
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (July 11).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 1213.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
Set for hearing May 8.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1. Page 800.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Set for hearing April 18.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 572.) (March 29).
Set for hearing March 29.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB674 | HTML |
| 02/16/23 - Introduced | |
| 04/10/23 - Amended Senate | PDF PDF |
| 06/19/23 - Amended Assembly | |
| 07/12/23 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/01/23 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/27/24 - Amended Assembly |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 03/27/23- Senate Environmental Quality | |
| 04/14/23- Senate Judiciary | |
| 05/10/23- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 06/23/23- Assembly Natural Resources | |
| 07/08/23- Assembly Judiciary | |
| 08/21/23- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 08/25/23- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 09/01/23- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 06/28/24- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 07/02/24- Sen. Floor Analyses |
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