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				<ns0:ActionText>INTRODUCED</ns0:ActionText>
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		<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Rogers</ns0:AuthorText>
		<ns0:AuthorText authorType="PRINCIPAL_COAUTHOR_ORIGINATING">(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Zbur)</ns0:AuthorText>
		<ns0:AuthorText authorType="COAUTHOR_ORIGINATING">(Coauthors: Assembly Members Calderon and Connolly)</ns0:AuthorText>
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				<ns0:Name>Calderon</ns0:Name>
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		<ns0:Title>An act to add Section 25302.1 to the Public Resources Code, relating to energy. </ns0:Title>
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			<ns0:Subject>Energy: integrated energy policy report: port infrastructure for offshore wind energy development.</ns0:Subject>
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			<html:p>Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission), in coordination with specified agencies, to develop a strategic plan for offshore wind energy developments installed off the California coast in federal waters, and requires the Energy Commission to submit the strategic plan to the Natural Resources Agency and the Legislature on or before June 30, 2023, as specified. Existing law requires the Energy Commission, in coordination with relevant state and local agencies, to develop a plan to improve waterfront facilities that could support a range of floating offshore wind energy development activities, as specified.</html:p>
			<html:p>Existing law requires the Energy Commission, beginning November 1, 2003, and biennially thereafter, to adopt an integrated energy policy report that contains an overview of major energy trends and issues facing the state, presents policy recommendations based on an in-depth and integrated analysis of the most current and pressing energy issues facing the state, and includes an assessment and forecast of system reliability and the need for resource additions, efficiency, and conservation, as specified.</html:p>
			<html:p>This bill would require the Energy Commission, as part of the 2027 edition of the integrated energy policy report and each edition thereafter, and contingent upon an appropriation for this purpose, to include an assessment of funding needs for port infrastructure for offshore wind energy development, as specified. The bill would require the
			 Energy Commission, in consultation with specified entities, to include in the assessment any federal, state, and local funding opportunities, including general obligation bonds and funding from the private sector, that can help build port infrastructure for offshore wind energy development. </html:p>
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		<ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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				<html:p>The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:</html:p>
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					(a)
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					Under the California Infrastructure Planning Act (Chapter 606 of the Statutes of 1999), the Governor is required to annually submit a five-year infrastructure plan to the Legislature in conjunction with the Governor’s Budget. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that this plan be updated annually and identify state infrastructure needs and set out priorities for funding. Under existing law, “the plan need not identify specific infrastructure projects to be funded, but it shall be sufficiently detailed to provide a clear understanding of the type and
				amount of infrastructure to be funded and the programmatic objectives to be achieved by this funding.” Under existing law, the infrastructure plan is required to contain, among other things, information on support for infrastructure needs and an evaluation of the impact of the new state debt on the state’s existing overall debt position if the plan proposes the issuance of new state debt.
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					(b)
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					Under existing law, “infrastructure” means real property, including land and improvements to the land, structures and equipment integral to the operation of structures, easements, rights-of-way, and other forms of interest in property, roadways, and water conveyances.
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					(c)
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					The infrastructure plan is required to contain specified information for the
				five years that it covers, including infrastructure requested by state agencies, aggregate funding for transportation, infrastructure needs for public schools and instructional support facility needs for public higher education institutions, as provided, the estimated cost of providing this infrastructure, and a proposal for funding the infrastructure.
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					(d)
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					The 100 Percent Clean Energy Act of 2018 enacted by Senate Bill 100 (Chapter 312 of the Statutes of 2018) amended the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program in order to attain targets for total retail sales generation, and required that eligible renewable energy resources supply 60 percent of all retail sales of electricity to California end-use customers by December 31, 2030, and eligible renewable and zero-carbon resources supply 100 percent of all retail
				sales of electricity to California end-use customers by December 31, 2045.
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					(e)
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					The publication “2021 SB 100 Joint Agency Report: Achieving 100 Percent Clean Electricity in California: An Initial Assessment,” prepared by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission), the Public Utilities Commission, and the State Air Resources Board, includes a review of the policy of supplying 100 percent of retail sales and state loads with eligible renewable and zero-carbon resources in California by 2045, assesses various pathways to achieve the policy, and provides an initial assessment of costs and benefits.
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					(f)
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					California’s offshore waters are a prime location for new floating offshore wind energy
				development projects that will help the state meet its bold renewable energy targets. Under existing law, the Energy Commission was required to develop a strategic plan by June 30, 2023, in preparation for advancing the development of offshore wind off the coast of California. In the Energy Commission’s report titled, “Offshore Wind Energy Development off the California Coast: Maximum Feasible Capacity and Megawatt Planning Goals for 2030 and 2045,” preliminary findings of the report set planning goals of 2,000 to 5,000 megawatts of offshore wind by 2030, and 25,000 megawatts by 2045.
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					(g)
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					On July 10, 2024, the Energy Commission submitted the final “Assembly Bill 525 Offshore Wind Strategic Plan” to the Natural Resources Agency and the Legislature. The final strategic plan discusses various aspects of
				offshore wind energy potential in California, including economic and workforce development benefits, transmission technology, transmission planning and interconnection, offshore wind permitting, potential impacts from offshore wind projects, identification of port space and infrastructure, and port infrastructure needs. Under existing law, the strategic plan is required to include a detailed assessment of the necessary investments in California seaports to support offshore wind energy activities, including construction, assembly, operations, and maintenance. The assessment is required to consider the potential availability of land and water acreage at each port, including competing and current uses, infrastructure feasibility, deep water access, bridge height restrictions, and the potential impact to natural and cultural resources, including coastal resources, fisheries, and impacts on Native
				American and Indigenous people.
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					(h)
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					The strategic plan is also required to strive for compatibility with other harbor tenants and ocean users to ensure that the local benefits related to offshore wind energy construction complement other local industries when considering port retrofits, and it is required to emphasize and prioritize actions that will improve port infrastructure to support land-based work for the local workforce.
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					(i)
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					A key finding from the final strategic plan focuses on the necessary upgrades for port and waterfront infrastructure to accommodate the offshore wind industry in California, which will require specialized seaport and waterfront facilities to build, assemble, and service the wind turbines needed to meet the Assembly
				Bill 525 offshore wind planning goals. Without a port site to assemble the turbine components, the industry will not be able to develop in California.
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					(j)
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					The final strategic plan also notes that no port site in California can serve all the needs of the offshore wind industry. Instead, a coordinated multiport strategy will be needed and could require more than 16 large and 10 small port sites, including staging, integration, operations, and maintenance sites, to support offshore wind development over the next decade or more. These sites are required to be developed as soon as possible, and have an estimated cost of at least $12 billion.
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					(k)
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					The Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024,
				approved by the voters as Proposition 4 at the November 5, 2024, statewide general election, authorized the issuance of general obligation bonds in the amount of $10 billion to fund a variety of projects across the state related to safe drinking water, flood protection, wildfire prevention, natural lands, and clean energy.
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					(l)
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					The Proposition 4 funding includes, upon appropriation by the Legislature, $475,000,000 to the Energy Commission to support construction of publicly owned port facilities for manufacturing, assembly, staging, and integration of entitlements and components of offshore wind generation, and upgrades to port facilities, consistent with the strategic plan developed pursuant to Section 25991 of the Public Resources Code.
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					(m)
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					The Proposition 4 funding represents an
				initial investment to upgrade ports for offshore wind development. Requiring the state to develop an offshore wind infrastructure plan, and continued significant state, federal, and private investment, will help ensure that the state is on a path toward offshore wind development. 
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			<ns0:Num>SEC. 2</ns0:Num>
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				Section 25302.1 is added to the 
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				, to read:
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								(a)
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								(1)
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								As part of the 2027 edition of the integrated energy policy report and each edition thereafter, and contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature for purposes of this section, the commission shall include an assessment of funding needs for port infrastructure for offshore wind energy development consistent with the recommendations in the strategic plan for offshore wind energy developments installed off the California coast in federal waters developed pursuant to Section 25991 and the plan to improve waterfront facilities that could support a range of floating offshore wind energy development activities pursuant to Section 25991.3.
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								(2)
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								For purposes of the assessment described in
						paragraph (1), both of the following shall apply:
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								(A)
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								Port infrastructure subject to the assessment includes construction and staging of foundations, manufacturing of components, final assembly, and long-term operations and maintenance facilities associated with offshore wind energy development.
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								(B)
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								The assessment shall be in addition to, and shall not be a substitute for, any other assessment that may be required for ports to determine specific local needs for accessing funds for offshore wind energy development.
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								(b)
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								The commission shall, in consultation with the Department of Finance, the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, the State Lands Commission, and the California
						Workforce Development Board, include in the assessment required by this section any federal, state, and local funding opportunities, including general obligation bonds and funding opportunities from the private sector, that can help build port infrastructure for offshore wind energy development.
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