Title PRC, California Pub. Res. Code

“Modification of an existing facility” means any alteration, replacement, or improvement of equipment that results in a 50-megawatt or more increase in the electric generating capacity of an existing thermal powerplant or an increase of 25 percent in the peak operating voltage or…

“Major oil producer” means any person who produces oil in amount determined by the commission as having a major effect on energy supplies. (Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 1195.)

“Major natural gas producer” means any person who produces natural gas in amounts determined by the commission as having a major effect on energy supplies. (Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 1195.)

“Major marketer” means any person who sells natural gas or oil in amounts determined by the commission as having a major effect on energy supplies. (Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 1195.)

“Refiner” means any person who owns, operates, or controls the operations of one or more refineries. (Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 1195.)

“Refinery” means any industrial plant, regardless of capacity, processing crude oil feedstock and manufacturing oil products. (Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 1195.)

“Foreign” means any area exclusive of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. (Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 1195.)

“Nonresidential” building means any building which is heated or cooled in its interior, and is of an occupancy type other than Type H, I, or J, as defined in the Uniform Building Code, 1973 edition, as adopted by the International Conference of Building Officials. (Added by Stats…

“Residential building” means any hotel, motel, apartment house, lodginghouse, single- and dwelling, or other residential building which is heated or mechanically cooled. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 846.)

“Load management” means any utility program or activity that is intended to reshape deliberately a utility’s load duration curve. (Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1375.)

“Geothermal element” means an element of a county general plan consisting of a statement of geothermal development policies, including a diagram or diagrams and text setting forth objectives, principles, standards, and plan proposals, including a discussion of environmental damag…

“Cogeneration” means the sequential use of energy for the production of electrical and useful thermal energy. The sequence can be thermal use followed by power production or the reverse, subject to the following standards: (a) At least 5 percent of the cogeneration project’s tota…

“Conversion” means the processes by which residue is converted to a more usable energy form, including, but not limited to, combustion, anaerobic digestion, and pyrolysis, and is used for heating, process heat applications, and electric power generation. (Amended by Stats. 2006, …

“Residue” means any organic matter left as residue, such as agricultural and forestry residue, including, but not limited to, conifer thinnings, dead and dying trees, commercial hardwood, noncommercial hardwoods and softwoods, chaparral, burn, mill, agricultural field, and indust…

“Solar thermal powerplant” means a thermal powerplant in which 75 percent or more of the total energy output is from solar energy and the use of backup fuels, such as oil, natural gas, and coal, does not, in the aggregate, exceed 25 percent of the total energy input of the facili…

“Unbranded,” as applied to fuel, means gasoline and diesel fuel sold for wholesale or retail distribution to consumers without proprietary additives or marketing under a brand name or trademark owned or controlled by an independent refiner or an integrated refining and marketing …

“Destination facility” means any structure, group of structures, equipment, pipeline, or device, other than a vessel, that receives oil in bulk to or from a tank vessel, railroad car, or pipeline, that is used for producing, storing, handling, transferring, processing, or transpo…

(a) The authority may receive and utilize grants or loans from the federal government, a public agency, or any other source for carrying out the purposes of this division. (b) The authority may make a commitment to finance a project by a qualified participating party who requests…

The Clean Energy Job Creation Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. Except as provided in Section 26208, the sum of five hundred fifty million dollars ($550,000,000) shall be transferred from the General Fund to the Job Creation Fund in fiscal years 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015…

(a) Of the moneys provided to the Job Creation Fund for purposes of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 26205, the available remaining funds, which are the funds allocated to a local educational agency that has not submitted an energy expenditure plan, as determined by th…

The following criteria apply to all expenditures from the Job Creation Fund: (a) Project selection and oversight shall be managed by existing state and local government agencies with expertise in managing energy projects and programs. (b) All projects shall be selected based on i…

If the Department of Finance and the Legislative Analyst jointly determine that the estimated annual increase in revenues as a result of the amendment, addition, or repeal of Sections 25128, 25128.5, 25128.7, and 25136 of the Revenue and Taxation Code is less than one billion one…

Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions set forth in this chapter govern the interpretation of this division. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1155.)

“Suisun Marsh” or “marsh” means water-covered areas, tidal marsh, diked-off wetlands, seasonal marshes, lowland grasslands, upland grasslands, and cultivated lands specified on the map identified in Section 16 of that chapter of the Statutes of the 1977–78 Regular Session enactin…

Notwithstanding Section 29101, “Suisun Marsh” does not include the real property described as follows: Beginning at a point in the easterly line of Section 32, T5N R1W, M.D.B. & M., said point being the northeast corner of the lands now or formerly of J.B. Lemon; thence along the…

“Primary management area” means water-covered areas, tidal marsh, diked-off wetlands, seasonal marsh, and lowland grassland specified on the map identified in Section 16 of that chapter of the Statutes of the 1977–78 Regular Session enacting this division. (Added by Stats. 1977, …

“Secondary management area” means the upland grasslands, cultivated lands, and low-lying areas adjacent to the primary management area specified on the map identified in Section 16 of that chapter of the Statutes of the 1977–78 Regular Session enacting this division. (Added by St…

“Watershed” means the immediate watershed of the marsh upland from the secondary management area and located in the County of Solano, including those creeks, streams, channels, or other water areas in the County of Solano that are tributary to, or flow into, the marsh. “Creeks, s…

“Managed wetland” means those diked areas in the marsh in which water inflow and outflow is artificially controlled or in which waterfowl food plants are cultivated, or both, to enhance habitat conditions for waterfowl and other water-associated birds, wildlife, or fish, regardle…

“Commission” means the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission created by Title 7.2 (commencing with Section 66600) of the Government Code. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1155.)

“Department” means the Department of Fish and Game. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1155.)

“County” means the County of Solano. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1155.)

“Local government” means the County of Solano and the Cities of Suisun City, Fairfield, and Benicia. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1155.)

“District” means any public agency, other than a local government, formed pursuant to general law or special act for the local performance of governmental or proprietary functions within limited boundaries. “District” includes, but is not limited to, a county service area, a main…

“Local protection program” means those provisions of general or specific plans; ordinances; zoning district maps; land use regulations, procedures, or controls; or any other programs, procedures, standards, or controls that are adopted, undertaken, or carried out by local governm…

“Local protection program component” or “component” means a part of the local protection program that is prepared by or submitted to the county pursuant to Section 29411 or prepared by the Suisun Resource Conservation District pursuant to Section 29412.5 for inclusion in the loca…

(a) “Suisun Marsh Protection Plan” or “protection plan” means the Suisun Marsh Protection Plan prepared and adopted by the commission and submitted to the Governor and Legislature pursuant to former Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 1850) of Division 2 of the Fish and Game Code.…

(a) “Development” means on land, or in or under water, the placement or erection of any solid material or structure; discharge or disposal of any dredged material or of any gaseous, liquid, solid, or thermal waste; grading, removing, dredging, mining, or extraction of any materia…

“Feasible” means capable of being accomplished in a successful manner within a reasonable period of time, taking into account economic, environmental, social, and technological factors. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1155.)

“Permit” means any license, certificate, approval, or other entitlement for use granted or denied by any public agency which is subject to the provisions of this division. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1155.)

(a) “Person” means any individual, organization, partnership, limited liability company, or other business association or corporation, including any utility; and the federal government, the state, any local government, or any district, or any agency thereof. (b) “Aggrieved person…

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this chapter govern the construction of this division. (Added by Stats. 1992, Ch. 898, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1993.)

“Aggrieved person” has the same meaning as defined in Section 29117. (Added by Stats. 1992, Ch. 898, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1993.)

“Commission” means the Delta Protection Commission created by Section 29735. (Added by Stats. 1992, Ch. 898, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1993.)

“Delta” means the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, as defined in Section 12220 of the Water Code, for all provisions of this division, other than Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 29735). For the purposes of Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 29735), “delta” means the area of the d…