SECTIONS 3368 - California Statutes

PUBLIC UTILITIES CODE

SECTION 3368

3368. (a) The commission, in consultation with the Energy
Commission, shall prepare and submit to the authority and to the
Legislature, within 90 days of the effective date of the act adding
this section, a report on the present, planned, and required future
capacity of the state's natural gas transportation and storage system
to provide adequate, seasonally reliable amounts of competitively
priced natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial
customers, including, but not limited to, electric generating plants.
(b) The authority may provide financing for natural gas
transportation or storage projects recommended to it by the
commission. In recommending a project to the authority, the
commission shall ensure that the project is in the public interest.
(c) Nothing in this section prevents the commission from acting on
its own authority to direct gas corporations within its jurisdiction
to construct, or facilitate the construction or operation, by the
owners or operators of pipelines not within the jurisdiction of the
commission, of, natural gas transportation and storage facilities as
the commission determines to be needed to provide adequate,
seasonally reliable amounts of competitively priced natural gas to
residential, commercial, and industrial customers, including, but not
limited to, electric generating plants.