California Pipelines Face New Hurdles As the State Adopts Final Rules to Protect its Coastline
By EsqSocial Corporation 27/10/20
The California Office of the State Fire Marshal (“OSFM”) finalized its regulations implementing Best Available Technology (“BAT”) requirements for hazardous liquid pipelines, effective October 1, 2020. The proposed regulations, discussed in more detail in three previous alerts (October 28, 2019, October 3, 2019 and March 11, 2019), implement AB 864, which became law in 2015 and requires installation of BAT on new and existing intrastate hazardous liquid pipelines near environmentally and...
By: Downey Brand LLP