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Cal. PUC § 748.5.5

This is the official text of Cal. PUC § 748.5.5, part of California’s Public Utilities Code — regulates utilities such as electricity, gas, water, and transportation carriers.

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Official statutory text

(a) A local publicly owned electric utility that receives an allowance allocation in addition to the allowance totals specified in Section 95892 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations pursuant to subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 38562 of the Health and Safety Code shall provide a credit in an amount equal to the total value of that additional allocation directly to ratepayers. This section does not limit the acceptable uses, as specified in paragraph (3) of subdivision (d) of Section 95892 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations, of other allowances allocated to local publicly owned electric utilities.

(b) A local publicly owned electric utility shall report to the State Air Resources Board on the uses of all revenues, including any accrued interest, received by that local publicly owned electric utility as a result of the direct allocation of greenhouse gas allowances to electric utilities pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 95890 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations.

(c) Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, the State Air Resources Board shall annually submit a report to the Legislature on the uses of revenues specified in subdivision (b) in accordance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.

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