in biomethane that impact human health, or that may affect the integrity and safety of the pipeline and pipeline facilities. If the OEHHA or CARB believes that an update should occur before the five-year period, they can notify the Commission’s Executive Director and the Energy Division Director that the Commission should conduct an update proceeding. If such a notification is received, the ALJ Division will initiate a proceeding to address such a request. The five year update application shall be filed five years from the effective date of today’s decision, or sooner if new information becomes available, or a request is made by OEHHA or CARB. Once the new application or other proceeding resolves the update issues, a new five-year period will be triggered. When the new application is filed, or if OEHHA or CARB request that an update proceeding take place, the application or request shall be served on the service list in this proceeding. Nondiscriminatory Open Access AB 1900 added Public Utilities Code Section 784. That code section provides as follows: For each gas corporation, the commission shall adopt pipeline access rules that ensure that each gas corporation provides nondiscriminatory open access to its gas pipeline system to any party for the purposes of physically interconnecting with the gas pipeline system and effectuating the delivery of gas. The proponents of biomethane generally contend that imposing additional requirements on the biomethane suppliers, as compared to natural gas suppliers, may be discriminatory. The four utilities contend that the additional requirements that are adopted and imposed on biomethane suppliers are not discriminatory because AB 1900 recognizes that biogas and biomethane
in biomethane that impact human health, or that may affect the integrity and safety of the pipeline and pipeline facilities. If the OEHHA or CARB believes that an update should occur before the five-year period, they can notify the Commission’s Executive Director and the Energy Division Director that the Commission should conduct an update proceeding. If such a notification is received, the ALJ Division will initiate a proceeding to address such a request. The five year update application shall be filed five years from the effective date of today’s decision, or sooner if new information becomes available, or a request is made by OEHHA or CARB. Once the new application or other proceeding resolves the update issues, a new five-year period will be triggered. When the new application is filed, or if OEHHA or CARB request that an update proceeding take place, the application or request shall be served on the service list in this proceeding. Nondiscriminatory Open Access AB 1900 added Public Utilities Code Section 784. That code section provides as follows: For each gas corporation, the commission shall adopt pipeline access rules that ensure that each gas corporation provides nondiscriminatory open access to its gas pipeline system to any party for the purposes of physically interconnecting with the gas pipeline system and effectuating the delivery of gas. The proponents of biomethane generally contend that imposing additional requirements on the biomethane suppliers, as compared to natural gas suppliers, may be discriminatory. The four utilities contend that the additional requirements that are adopted and imposed on biomethane suppliers are not discriminatory because AB 1900 recognizes that biogas and biomethane
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