BILL NUMBER: AB 460	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 31, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 17, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wyman

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2001

   An act relating to energy  , and making an appropriation
therefor  .



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 460, as amended, Wyman.   Energy  : 
transmission  :   Path 15.
   The existing California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires
a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and
certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a
project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a
significant effect on the environment, or to adopt a negative
declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect.
   This bill would  appropriate $10,000,000 to  
require  the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission  to allocate $10,000,000 to the
Transmission Authority of Northern California  for the purpose
of funding   the environmental studies of Path 15, 
to be completed by the Transmission Authority of Northern California
during 2001   as defined, subject to the appropriation
of funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act  .
   Vote:   2/3   majority  .
Appropriation:   yes   no  .  Fiscal
committee: yes.  State-mandated local program:  no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  
  SECTION 1.  The sum of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) is hereby
appropriated from the General Fund to the State Energy Resources
Conservation and Development Commission for the purpose of funding
the environmental studies of Path 15, to be completed by the
Transmission Authority of Northern California during 2001. 

  SECTION 1.  The State Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Commission shall allocate, subject to the appropriation of funds for
this purpose in the annual Budget Act, the sum of ten million
dollars ($10,000,000) to the Transmission Authority of Northern
California for the purpose of funding the environmental studies of
Path 15.  For purposes of this section, "Path 15" is a group of
high-voltage power lines located between Tracy and Bakersfield that
transmit electricity between northern and southern California.