Amended
IN
Assembly
July 03, 2017 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
June 08, 2017 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
May 18, 2017 |
Senate Bill | No. 188 |
Introduced by Senators Jackson, De León, and Lara (Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Limón and Muratsuchi) (Coauthors: Senators Galgiani and Stern) (Coauthor: Assembly Member Bloom) |
January 25, 2017 |
(a)For the purposes of this section, the following provisions apply:
(1)“Commission” means the State Lands Commission or a local trustee of granted public trust lands, as defined pursuant to Section 6306.
(2)“Development” means those activities taking place following the discovery of oil and natural gas, including geophysical activity, drilling, platform construction, pipeline construction, and operation of all onshore support facilities that are performed for the purpose of ultimately producing the resources discovered.
(3)“Exploration” means
the process of searching for oil and natural gas, including any drilling, whether on or off known geological structures, including the drilling of a well in which a discovery of oil or natural gas is made and the drilling of any additional delineation well after the discovery that is needed to delineate any reservoir and to enable a lessee to determine whether to proceed with the development and production.
(4)(A)“New or additional exploration, development, or production of oil or natural gas” includes any activity undertaken to increase the capacity of any pipeline or other infrastructure used to convey oil or natural gas.
(B) “New or additional exploration, development, or production of oil or natural gas” does not include any activity undertaken to repair,
replace, or maintain any pipeline or other infrastructure used to convey oil or natural gas or any other activity necessary to ensure the safe operation of infrastructure used in the exploration, development, or production of oil or natural gas.
(5)“Production” means those activities that take place after the successful completion of any means for the removal of oil and natural gas, including that removal, field operations, transfer of resources to shore, operation monitoring, maintenance, and work-over drilling. “Producing” means undertaking those activities.
(b)The commission shall not enter into any new lease or other conveyance that authorizes the exploration for, or the development and production of, oil or natural gas upon lands owned by the state and under the jurisdiction
of the commission that are located seaward of the ordinary high water mark for tidal waterways and the ordinary low water mark for navigable nontidal waterways.
(c)The commission shall not enter into any lease renewal, extension, or modification that authorizes a lessee to engage in new or additional exploration, development, or production of oil or natural gas upon lands owned by the state and under the jurisdiction of the commission that are located seaward of the ordinary high water mark for tidal waterways and the ordinary low water mark for navigable nontidal waterways.