Public resources: ballast water management.

(1) The Marine Invasive Species Act generally applies to all vessels carrying or capable of carrying ballast water into the coastal waters of the state after operating outside of the coastal waters of the state and to all ballast water and associated sediments taken on a vessel. The act requires the master, owner, operator, agent, or person in charge of a vessel that visits a California port or place of call to maintain specified information and records related to the vessel and ballast water management, and to make available or provide the information to the State Lands Commission. A person who, knowingly and with intent to deceive, falsifies a ballast water control report form required by the act is guilty of a misdemeanor. This bill would require the master, owner, operator, agent, or person in charge of a vessel carrying or capable of carrying ballast water that has a ballast water treatment system installed on board the vessel that is used to comply with the act to maintain on board the vessel, in written or electronic form, specified records that include material data safety sheets for certain chemicals, specified technical guides, publications, and manuals, and specified ballast water treatment system performance information. The bill also would require the master, owner, operator, agent, or person in charge of one of those vessels that has discharged ballast in waters of the state to provide to the commission the manufacturer and product name of the ballast water treatment system on board the vessel, the name of the organization that has approved the system, if applicable, the approval or certification number of the system technology, if applicable, the number of tanks and the volume of each tank that is managed using the system and that was discharged in waters of the state, and any additional information required by the commission by rule or regulation. The bill would require the master, owner, operator, agent, or person in charge of the vessel to provide that information on a form developed by the commission. Because a knowing and intentionally deceitful falsification of a report form required by the bill would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill also would require the master, owner, operator, agent, or person in charge of a vessel subject to the act to maintain records of any additional information required by the commission by rule or regulation. (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.