Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006: shoreside electrical power infrastructure.

Existing law, the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006, approved by the voters as Proposition 1B at the November 7, 2006, general election, authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for various transportation-related purposes, including emission reductions, not otherwise required by law or regulation, from activities related to the movement of freight along California's trade corridors. The State Air Resources Board is required to allocate the funds to be used for air quality purposes pursuant to specified requirements. The state board is prohibited from approving funding for usable project segments if the benefits associated with each individual segment are insufficient to meet the objectives of the program from which the individual segment is funded. This bill would make this prohibition inapplicable for a shoreside electrical power infrastructure project that is administered by a California port, and instead would require that the individual segments of these projects be a part of an adopted terminal plan submitted to the state board. The bill would authorize the state board for a specified purpose to allow a recipient agency for shoreside electrical power infrastructure to average vessel calls made across multiple berths within a terminal.