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 04/21/25 - Amended Assembly
 02/18/25 - Introduced

 AB-734 Environmental protection: biological resources data: State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission: powerplants: power lines: applications.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 09/05/2025 09:00 PM

AB734:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Enrolled
 September 05, 2025

 Passed
 IN 
 Senate
 September 03, 2025

 Passed
 IN 
 Assembly
 June 02, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 21, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 734

Introduced by Assembly Member Schultz
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Caloza)

February 18, 2025

An act to add Sections 25544 and 25545.17 to the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental protection. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 734, Schultz.
 Environmental protection: biological resources data: State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission: powerplants: power lines: applications.

Existing law vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission with the power to certify locations on which an electrical transmission line or thermal powerplant is constructed, or is proposed to be constructed, except as provided. Existing law authorizes the commission to exempt from certification a thermal powerplant with a generating capacity of up to 100 megawatts, and modifications to existing generating facilities that do not add capacity in excess of 100 megawatts if the commission finds that no substantial adverse impact on the environment or energy resources will result from the construction or operation of the proposed facility or from the modifications. 

This bill would require any biological resources data submitted to the commission in an application for certification or small powerplant exemption pursuant to
 the above-described provisions to be made publicly available on the commission’s docket as part of the certification proceeding unless the Department of Fish and Wildlife makes a written determination that the data to be made public includes specified location data, the disclosure of which would pose a significant risk to individuals of the species. The bill would require the department, if it makes that determination, to include in the written determination an assessment of the maximum amount of the specified data that can be released without posing a risk to the species. The bill would require the department to provide its written determination to the commission and would require the commission to make the data, in accordance with the determination, available to the public on the commission’s docket.

Existing law, until June 30, 2029, authorizes a person proposing an eligible facility, including a solar photovoltaic or terrestrial wind electrical generating
 powerplant with a generating capacity of 50 megawatts or more, to submit an application with the commission for certification of the site and related facility. 

This bill would apply the same public availability requirements described above to biological resources data submitted to the commission as part of an application for certification of an eligible facility.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 25544 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:

25544.

 (a) For the purposes of this section, “biological resources data” means information pertaining to species and their habitats, including, but not limited to, observations, surveys, scientific studies, species needs, and habitat conditions, and including maps on a scale of one inch equals 500 feet.

(b) Notwithstanding any other law, any biological resources data submitted to the commission as part of an application for certification pursuant to this chapter, or exemption from this chapter pursuant to Section 25541, shall be made available to the public on the commission’s docket as part of a certification proceeding unless the Department of Fish and Wildlife makes a written determination that the data to be made public includes location data
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