BILL NUMBER: SB 1435INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Padilla FEBRUARY 19, 2010 An act to amend Section 25505 of the Public Resources Code, relating to energy. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 1435, as introduced, Padilla. Energy: power facilities: site certification: notice. Existing law grants to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission with the exclusive power to certify certain sites and related facilities. Existing law requires a person proposing to construct a thermal powerplant or electric transmission line on a site to submit to the commission a notice of intention to file an application for the certification of the site and related facilities. Upon receipt of the notice, existing law requires the commission to cause a summary of the notice to be published in a newspaper of general circulation, where specified, and to transmit a copy of the notice to, among other entities, the Public Utilities Commission and the Attorney General. This bill would also require the commission to transmit a copy of the notice to the Independent System Operator. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 25505 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read: 25505. Upon receipt of a notice, the commission shall cause a summary of the notice to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in each county in which the sites and related facilities, or any part thereof, designated in the notice are proposed to be located. The commission shall also transmit a copy of the notice to the Public Utilities Commission, for sites and related facilities requiring a certificate of public convenience and necessity, and to other federal, state, regional, and local agencies having an interest in matters pertinent to the proposed facilities at any of the alternative sites. A copy of the notice shall also be transmitted to the Attorney General and to the Independent System Operator .