Energy: transportation fuels: supply: reportable pipelines.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not specify the exact penalties or confidentiality rules, so these are based on existing laws and applied to new requirements for reportable pipelines.

Pipeline Reporting Requirements

The law requires certain pipelines to be identified as 'reportable' and their operators to submit monthly information about the pipeline's operations to a state commission.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to identify reportable pipelines by December 31, 2026.
• Requires operators of these pipelines to send monthly reports starting March 30, 2027, about daily volumes and capacities necessary for safe operations.
• Adds penalties for not providing the required information on reportable pipelines.
• Allows pipeline operators to request that some submitted information be kept confidential.
• Requires the commission to decide if requested information should be made public.

Who It Names or Affects

• Pipeline operators
• The State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission

Terms To Know

Reportable pipelines

Pipelines that meet certain criteria set by the state commission and must provide regular reports.

Nameplate capacity

The maximum amount of material a pipeline can handle under normal conditions, as stated by its manufacturer.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify which pipelines will be reportable until the commission identifies them.
• Details about penalties and confidentiality requests are based on existing laws but applied to new requirements for reportable pipelines.

Official Summary Text

SB 767, Richardson.
Energy: transportation fuels: supply: reportable pipelines.
Existing law establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission. Existing law requires major oil producers, refiners, marketers, oil transporters, oil storers, pipeline operators, and ports to annually submit certain information to the commission, as provided.
This bill would require the commission to work with stakeholders to identify, on or before December 31, 2026, those pipelines that qualify as reportable pipelines, as defined. The bill would require, commencing March 30, 2027, and each month thereafter, the operators of reportable pipelines to submit specified information
to the commission related to minimum and maximum operating volumes in a 24-hour period necessary to ensure safe operations, volume of crude oil delivered and number of hours in
operation each day, and maximum nameplate capacity and available capacity, as provided.
Existing law subjects major oil producers, refiners, marketers, oil transporters, oil storers, pipeline operators, and ports, among others, to civil penalties for failing to provide specified information to the commission and other entities, as provided. Existing law authorizes the commission to petition a court for an order compelling a person to provide specified information, as provided. Existing law authorizes pipeline operators, among others, required to present to the commission certain information to request that certain submitted information be held in confidence. Existing law requires the commission to take certain actions if the commission receives a request to publicly disclose that information and to make a written determination as to whether the requested information should be publicly disclosed.
This bill would extend the above-described civil penalty provisions to a person who fails to provide information about reportable pipelines, as provided, and would authorize the commission to petition a court for an order compelling a person who has failed to notify the commission about a reportable pipeline to provide that information. The bill would also extend to a person required to submit information about reportable pipelines the above-described authorization to request that certain submitted information be held in confidence. The bill would also extend, as applied to requests that certain submitted information about reportable pipelines be held in confidence, the above-described requirement for the commission to take certain actions and make a written determination as to whether the requested information should be publicly disclosed.
Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of
public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.
This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.

Current Bill Text

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