California Public Utilities Code

§ 956

PUC § 956 Effective Jan 1, 2017Div. 1 · Part 1 · Ch. 4.5 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)On or before July 1, 2012, the commission shall open an appropriate proceeding or expand the scope of an existing proceeding to establish compatible emergency response standards that owners or operators of commission-regulated gas pipeline facilities shall be required to follow for intrastate transmission and distribution lines. The commission shall establish the standards to ensure that intrastate transmission and distribution lines have emergency response plans that adequately prepare them for a natural disaster or malfunction that could cause injury to human life or property, with the purpose of minimizing the occurrence of both.

(b)The commission shall establish the compatible emergency response standards in consultation with the California Emergency Management Agency, the State Fire Marshal, and members of California’s first responder community including, but not limited to, members of the California Fire Chiefs Association.

(c)The compatible emergency response standards shall require owners or operators of intrastate transmission and distribution lines to implement emergency response plans that are compatible with the United States Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s regulations concerning emergency plans contained in Section 192.615 of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations, and those plans shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following requirements:

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 842, Sec. 39. (SB 1222) Effective January 1, 2017.