Cal. PUC § 1002.5
This is the official text of Cal. PUC § 1002.5, part of California’s Public Utilities Code — regulates utilities such as electricity, gas, water, and transportation carriers.
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Official statutory text
In issuing a certificate of convenience and necessity for additional natural gas pipeline capacity proposed for construction within this state, the commission shall consider the state’s need to provide sufficient and competitively priced natural gas supplies for both present and anticipated future residential, industrial, commercial, and utility demand. When it finds that it is in the state’s best interests to do so, the commission shall expeditiously issue certificates of convenience and necessity for those additional natural gas pipeline capacity projects.
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