Oil spills: oil spill prevention and administration fee.

The Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act generally requires the administrator for oil spill response, acting at the direction of the Governor, to implement activities relating to oil spill response, including emergency drills and preparedness, and oil spill containment and cleanup, and to represent the state in any coordinated response efforts with the federal government. Existing law imposes an oil spill prevention and administration fee in an amount determined by the administrator to be sufficient to implement oil spill prevention activities, but not to exceed $0.065 per barrel of crude oil or petroleum products. Existing law requires the oil spill prevention and administration fee to be imposed upon a person owning crude oil or petroleum products at the time that the crude oil or petroleum products are received at a marine terminal or refinery by specified modes of delivery from within or outside the state, as provided. This bill would state legislative intent that the fee on crude oil or petroleum products be collected only upon first delivery to a refinery or marine terminal and not upon subsequent movement of that same oil or products derived after that first delivery. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.