Diablo Canyon nuclear powerplant: Community Impacts Mitigation Program.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary and digest do not specify how funding for the Community Impacts Mitigation Program will be raised or allocated.

Diablo Canyon Nuclear Powerplant Community Impact Program

The bill requires full funding for a program that helps communities affected by the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant's decommissioning and extended operation until October 31, 2030.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the Public Utilities Commission to ensure full funding of the Community Impacts Mitigation Program during the extended operation of the Diablo Canyon nuclear powerplant.
• Establishes that violations of this program's requirements are criminal offenses.
• Declares that no state reimbursement is required for local agencies and school districts due to this act.

Who It Names or Affects

• The Public Utilities Commission
• Pacific Gas and Electric Company
• Communities in the County of San Luis Obispo affected by the Diablo Canyon nuclear powerplant's decommissioning

Terms To Know

Community Impacts Mitigation Program

A program designed to help communities deal with negative effects caused by the shutdown and cleanup of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.

Public Utilities Commission

The state agency that regulates public utilities, including electrical corporations in California.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify how funding for the Community Impacts Mitigation Program will be raised or allocated.
• Nonsubstantive changes to laws about flamethrowing devices are made but do not affect the main focus of the bill on Diablo Canyon nuclear powerplant.

Official Summary Text

SB 931, as amended, Laird.
Explosives: flamethrowing devices.
Diablo Canyon nuclear powerplant: Community Impacts Mitigation Program.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory jurisdiction over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires the commission to approve full funding for the Community Impacts Mitigation Program set forth in a settlement between the Pacific Gas and Electric Company and various entities, including public entities in the County of San Luis Obispo, to mitigate the impacts caused by the decommissioning of the Diablo Canyon nuclear powerplant proposed by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Pursuant to existing law, the commission issued a decision authorizing the recovery of the costs of the Community Impacts Mitigation Program through the nuclear decommissioning nonbypassable charge. Existing law requires the commission to direct and authorize the extended
operation of the Diablo Canyon nuclear powerplant until October 31, 2030.
This bill would require the commission to ensure the continued full funding of the Community Impacts Mitigation Program for the extended operation of the Diablo Canyon nuclear powerplant, as provided.
Under existing law, a violation of an order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.
Because a violation of a commission action implementing the bill’s requirements would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Diablo Canyon nuclear powerplant.
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 a specified reason.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law prohibits a person from using or possessing a flamethrowing device without a valid flamethrowing device permit, as issued by the State Fire Marshal.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the above-described provision.

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