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CA Pub Util Code § 955.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4.5 - Gas Pipeline Safety|ARTICLE 2 - Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 011|Section 955.5.

955.5.  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) “Gas pipeline” means an intrastate distribution line as described in paragraph (1) of, or an intrastate transmission line as described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 950.(2) “Hospital” means a licensed general acute care hospital as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code.(3) “School” means a public or private preschool, elementary, or secondary school.(b) A gas corporation shall provide not less than three working days’ notice to the administration of a school or hospital prior to undertaking nonemergency excavation or construction of a gas pipeline, excluding any work that only uses hand tools, pneumatic hand tools, or vacuum technology for the purpose of marking and locating a subsurface installation pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 4216) of Chapter 3.1 of Division 5 of Title 1 of the Government Code, if the work is located within 500 feet of the school or hospital. The notification shall include all of the following:(1) The name, address, telephone number, and emergency contact information for the gas corporation.(2) The specific location of the gas pipeline where the excavation or construction will be performed.(3) The date and time the excavation or construction is to be conducted and when the work is expected to be completed.(4) An invitation and a telephone number to call for further information on what the school or hospital should do in the event of a leak.(c) The gas corporation shall maintain a record of the date and time of any notification provided to the administration of a school or hospital prior to undertaking nonemergency excavation or construction of a gas pipeline and any subsequent contacts with the administration of a school or hospital relative to the excavation or construction and the actions taken, if any, in response to those subsequent contacts. The gas corporation shall maintain these records and make them available for inspection for no less than five years from the date of the notification.(Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 561, Sec. 215. (AB 1516) Effective January 1, 2018.)
CA Pub Util Code § 956.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4.5 - Gas Pipeline Safety|ARTICLE 2 - Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 011|Section 956.5.

956.5.  Owners and operators of intrastate transmission and distribution lines, at least once each calendar year, shall meet with each local fire department having fire suppression responsibilities in the area where those lines are located to discuss and review contingency plans for emergencies involving the intrastate transmission and distribution lines within the jurisdiction of the local fire department.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 519, Sec. 1. (AB 56) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Pub Util Code § 957 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4.5 - Gas Pipeline Safety|ARTICLE 2 - Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 011|Section 957.

957.  (a) (1) Unless the commission determines that it is prohibited from doing so by subdivision (c) of Section 60104 of Title 49 of the United States Code, the commission shall require the installation of automatic shutoff or remote controlled sectionalized block valves on both of the following facilities, if it determines those valves are necessary for the protection of the public:(A) Intrastate transmission lines that are located in a high consequence area.(B) Intrastate transmission lines that traverse an active seismic earthquake fault.(2) Each owner or operator of a commission-regulated gas pipeline facility that is an intrastate transmission line shall provide the commission with a valve location plan, along with any recommendations for valve locations. The commission may make modifications to the valve location plan or provide for variations from any location requirements adopted by the commission pursuant to this section that it deems necessary or appropriate and consistent with protection of the public.(3) The commission shall additionally establish action timelines, adopt standards for how to prioritize installation of automatic shutoff or remote controlled sectionalized block valves pursuant to paragraph (1), ensure that remote and automatic shutoff valves are installed as quickly as is reasonably possible, and establish ongoing procedures for monitoring progress in achieving the requirements of this section.(b) The commission shall authorize recovery in rates for all reasonably incurred costs incurred for implementation of the requirements of this section.(c) The commission, in consultation with the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration of the United States Department of Transportation, shall adopt and enforce compatible safety standards for commission-regulated gas pipeline facilities that the commission determines should be adopted to implement the requirements of this section.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 521, Sec. 1. (SB 216) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Pub Util Code § 958 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4.5 - Gas Pipeline Safety|ARTICLE 2 - Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 011|Section 958.

958.  (a) Each gas corporation shall prepare and submit to the commission a proposed comprehensive pressure testing implementation plan for all intrastate transmission lines to either pressure test those lines or to replace all segments of intrastate transmission lines that were not pressure tested or that lack sufficient details related to performance of pressure testing. The comprehensive pressure testing implementation plan shall provide for testing or replacing all intrastate transmission lines as soon as practicable. The comprehensive pressure testing implementation plan shall set forth criteria on which pipeline segments were identified for replacement instead of pressure testing.(b) The comprehensive pressure testing implementation plan shall include a timeline for completion that is as soon as practicable, and includes interim safety enhancement measures, including increased patrols and leak surveys, pressure reductions, prioritization of pressure testing for critical pipelines that must run at or near maximum allowable operating pressure values that result in hoop stress levels at or above 30 percent of specified minimum yield stress, and any other measure that the commission determines will enhance public safety during the implementation period. Engineering-based assumptions may be used to determine maximum allowable operating pressure in the absence of complete records, but only as an interim measure until such time as all the lines have been tested or replaced, in order to allow the gas system to continue to operate.(c) At the completion of the implementation period, all California natural gas intrastate transmission line segments shall meet all of the following:(1) Have been pressure tested.(2) Have traceable, verifiable, and complete records readily available.(3) Where warranted, be capable of accommodating in-line inspection devices.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 519, Sec. 3. (AB 56) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Pub Util Code § 958.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4.5 - Gas Pipeline Safety|ARTICLE 2 - Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 011|Section 958.5.

958.5.  (a) Twice a year, or as determined by the commission, each gas corporation shall file with the division of the commission responsible for utility safety a gas transmission and storage safety report. The division of the commission responsible for utility safety shall review the reports to monitor each gas corporation’s storage and pipeline-related activities to assess whether the projects that have been identified as high risk are being carried out, and to track whether the gas corporation is spending its allocated funds on these storage and pipeline-related safety, reliability, and integrity activities for which they have received approval from the commission.(b) The gas transmission and storage safety report shall include a thorough description and explanation of the strategic planning and decisionmaking approach used to determine and rank the gas storage projects, intrastate transmission line safety, integrity, and reliability, operation and maintenance activities, and inspections of its intrastate transmission lines. If there has been no change in the gas corporation’s approach for determining and ranking which projects and activities are prioritized since the previous gas transmission and storage safety report, the subsequent report may reference the immediately preceding report.(c) If the division of the commission responsible for utility safety determines that there is a deficiency in a gas corporation’s prioritization or administration of the storage or pipeline capital projects or operation and maintenance activities, the division shall bring the problems to the commission’s immediate attention.(Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 842, Sec. 40. (SB 1222) Effective January 1, 2017.)
CA Pub Util Code § 959 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4.5 - Gas Pipeline Safety|ARTICLE 2 - Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 011|Section 959.

959.  Each gas corporation shall demonstrate to the satisfaction of the commission, in its general rate case proceeding, that the requested revenue requirements will be sufficient to enable the gas corporation to fund those projects and activities necessary to maintain safe and reliable service and to meet federal and state safety requirements applicable to its gas plant, in a cost-effective manner.(Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 626, Sec. 35. (SB 901) Effective January 1, 2019.)
CA Pub Util Code § 960 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4.5 - Gas Pipeline Safety|ARTICLE 2 - Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 011|Section 960.

960.  (a) When the federal National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) submits a safety recommendation letter concerning gas pipeline safety to the commission, the commission shall provide the NTSB with a formal written response to each recommendation not later than 90 days after receiving the letter. The response shall state one of the following:(1) The commission’s intent to implement the recommendations in full, with a proposed timetable for implementation of the recommendations.(2) The commission’s intent to implement part of the recommendations, with a proposed timetable for implementation of those recommendations, and detailed reasons for the commission’s refusal to implement those recommendations that the commission does not intend to implement.(3) The commission’s refusal to implement the recommendations, with detailed reasons for the commission’s refusal to implement the recommendations.(b) If the NTSB issues a safety recommendation letter concerning any commission-regulated gas pipeline facility to the United States Department of Transportation, the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), a gas corporation, or the commission, or the PHMSA issues an advisory bulletin concerning any commission-regulated gas pipeline facility, the commission shall determine if implementation of the recommendation or advisory is appropriate. The basis for the commission’s determination shall be detailed in writing and shall be approved by a majority vote of the commission.(c) If the commission determines that a safety recommendation made by the NTSB is appropriate or that action concerning an advisory bulletin is necessary, the commission shall issue orders or adopt rules to implement the safety recommendation or advisory as soon as practicable. In implementing the safety recommendation or advisory, the commission shall consider whether a more effective, or equally effective and less costly, alternative exists to address the safety issue that the recommendation or advisory addresses.(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 612, Sec. 56. (SB 697) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Pub Util Code § 969 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4.5 - Gas Pipeline Safety|ARTICLE 2 - Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 011|Section 969.

969.  In any ratemaking proceeding in which the commission authorizes a gas corporation to recover expenses for the gas corporation’s transmission pipeline integrity management program established pursuant to Subpart O (commencing with Section 192.901) of Part 192 of Title 49 of the United States Code or related capital expenditures for the maintenance and repair of transmission pipelines, the commission shall require the gas corporation to establish and maintain a balancing account for the recovery of those expenses. Any unspent moneys in the balancing account in the form of an accumulated account balance at the end of each rate case cycle, plus interest, shall be returned to ratepayers through a true-up filing. Nothing in this section is intended to interfere with the commission’s discretion to establish a two-way balancing account.(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 523, Sec. 1. (SB 879) Effective January 1, 2012.)
CA Pub Util Code § 970 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4.5 - Gas Pipeline Safety|ARTICLE 2 - Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 011|Section 970.

970.  (a) The commission shall perform an analysis of benchmark data and adopt safety performance metrics for pipeline safety.(b) The commission shall consider the following principles when adopting safety performance metrics:(1) Each safety performance metric shall be designed to be an indicator of safety performance.(2) Each safety performance metric shall be designed so that it may be reevaluated within a useful timeframe.(3) Each safety performance metric shall be designed so that the data inputs to the metric are verifiable.(4) The adopted set of safety performance metrics shall be robust enough to serve as a useful indicator of pipeline safety.(c) The commission shall evaluate a gas corporation’s safety performance using the safety performance metrics adopted pursuant to subdivision (a) and may implement a rate incentive program. The rate incentive program may contain penalties based on safety performance.(Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 469, Sec. 2. (AB 1456) Effective January 1, 2013.)
CA Pub Util Code § 972 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4.5 - Gas Pipeline Safety|ARTICLE 2 - Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 011|Section 972.

972.  (a) A penalty assessed against a gas corporation pursuant to this part in regards to a natural gas storage facility leak shall at least equal the amount necessary to reduce the impact on the climate from greenhouse gases by an amount equivalent to the impact on the climate from the greenhouse gases emitted by the leak from the natural gas storage facility, as determined by the State Air Resources Board. In determining the amount necessary to fully offset the impact on the climate from the gases emitted by the leak, the commission shall consider the extent to which the gas corporation has mitigated, or is in the process of mitigating, the impact on the climate from greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the leak.(b) This section shall not affect or be interpreted to affect the authority of the State Air Resources Board to adopt rules and regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at natural gas storage facilities or to require mitigation of natural gas leaks from those facilities.(Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 814, Sec. 1. (SB 801) Effective January 1, 2018.)
CA Pub Util Code § 977 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4.5 - Gas Pipeline Safety|ARTICLE 3 - Methane Leakage Abatement|Section 977.

977.  In order to achieve transparency and accountability for rate revenues and best value for ratepayers, and consistent with the commission’s existing ratemaking procedures and authority to establish just and reasonable rates, the commission shall consider all of the following:(a) Providing an adequate workforce to achieve the objectives of reducing hazards and emissions from leaks, including leak avoidance, reduction, and repair.(b) Providing revenues for all activities identified and required pursuant to Section 975, including any adjustment of allowance for lost and unaccounted for gas related to actual leakage volumes.(c) Providing guidance for treatment of expenditures as being either an item of expense or a capital investment.(d) The impact on affordability of gas service for vulnerable customers as a result of the incremental costs of compliance with the adopted rules and procedures.(Added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 525, Sec. 2. (SB 1371) Effective January 1, 2015.)
CA Pub Util Code § 978 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4.5 - Gas Pipeline Safety|ARTICLE 3 - Methane Leakage Abatement|Section 978.

978.  Except as expressly so provided, this article does not expand or in any manner alter the commission’s jurisdiction over the regulation of emissions of greenhouse gases.(Added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 525, Sec. 2. (SB 1371) Effective January 1, 2015.)
CA Pub Util Code § 1001 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 5 - Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity|ARTICLE 1 - Specified Utilities|Section 1001.

1001.  No railroad corporation whose railroad is operated primarily by electric energy, street railroad corporation, gas corporation, electrical corporation, telegraph corporation, telephone corporation, water corporation, or sewer system corporation shall begin the construction of a street railroad, or of a line, plant, or system, or of any extension thereof, without having first obtained from the commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require such construction.This article shall not be construed to require any such corporation to secure such certificate for an extension within any city or city and county within which it has theretofore lawfully commenced operations, or for an extension into territory either within or without a city or city and county contiguous to its street railroad, or line, plant, or system, and not theretofore served by a public utility of like character, or for an extension within or to territory already served by it, necessary in the ordinary course of its business. If any public utility, in constructing or extending its line, plant, or system, interferes or is about to interfere with the operation of the line, plant, or system of any other public utility or of the water system of a public agency, already constructed, the commission, on complaint of the public utility or public agency claiming to be injuriously affected, may, after hearing, make such order and prescribe such terms and conditions for the location of the lines, plants, or systems affected as to it may seem just and reasonable.(Amended by Stats. 1981, Ch. 573, Sec. 2.)
CA Pub Util Code § 1001.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 5 - Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity|ARTICLE 1 - Specified Utilities|Section 1001.5.

1001.5.  (a) The commission shall exempt the construction of any line, plant, or system, or extension thereof, located outside the boundaries of the state from the requirements of Section 1001, upon the application of the public utility constructing that line, plant, or system, or extension thereof, if the public utility derives 75 percent or more of its operating revenues from outside the state, as recorded in the fiscal period immediately before the filing of the application, unless the commission determines that the public interest requires that the construction should not be exempt from Section 1001.(b) Except as provided in subdivision (c), the commission shall make the determination denying the exemption, as specified in subdivision (a), within 90 days after the public utility files the application for exemption with the commission. If the commission fails to make this determination within that 90-day period, the construction of that line, plant, or system, or extension thereof, is exempt from the requirements of Section 1001.(c) The commission and the public utility filing the application for exemption may, if both agree, extend the time period within which the commission is required to make the determination denying the exemption, for not more than an additional 60 days after the expiration of the 90-day period specified in subdivision (b).(Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 971, Sec. 2. Effective September 21, 1983.)
CA Pub Util Code § 1002 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 5 - Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity|ARTICLE 1 - Specified Utilities|Section 1002.

1002.  (a) The commission, as a basis for granting any certificate pursuant to Section 1001 shall give consideration to the following factors:(1) Community values.(2) Recreational and park areas.(3) Historical and aesthetic values.(4) Influence on environment, except that in the case of any line, plant, or system or extension thereof located in another state which will be subject to environmental impact review pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (Chapter 55 (commencing with Section 4321) of Title 42 of the United States Code) or similar state laws in the other state, the commission shall not consider influence on the environment unless any emissions or discharges therefrom would have a significant influence on the environment of this state.(b) With respect to any thermal powerplant or electrical transmission line for which a certificate is required pursuant to the provisions of Division 15 (commencing with Section 25000) of the Public Resources Code, no certificate of public convenience and necessity shall be granted pursuant to Section 1001 without such other certificate having been obtained first, and the decision granting such other certificate shall be conclusive as to all matters determined thereby and shall take the place of the requirement for consideration by the commission of the four factors specified in subdivision (a) of this section.(Added by Stats. 1981, Ch. 573, Sec. 3.)
CA Pub Util Code § 1002.3 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 5 - Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity|ARTICLE 1 - Specified Utilities|Section 1002.3.

1002.3.   In considering an application for a certificate for an electric transmission facility pursuant to Section 1001, the commission shall consider cost-effective alternatives to transmission facilities that meet the need for an efficient, reliable, and affordable supply of electricity, including, but not limited to, demand-side alternatives such as targeted energy efficiency, ultraclean distributed generation, as defined in Section 353.2, and other demand reduction resources.(Added by Stats. 2005, Ch. 366, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2006.)