Air pollution: oceangoing vessels.

Existing law regulates air emissions from cruise ship engines and oceangoing ship engines. Regulations of the State Air Resources Board limit the time during which auxiliary diesel engines of container vessels, passenger vessels, and refrigerated cargo vessels are operated while those vessels are docked at berth at a California port. This bill would deem an oceangoing vessel, as defined, that meets specified requirements to have met the limitations on hours of operation of auxiliary diesel engines while at berth for that vessel visit. The bill would require an oceangoing vessel that is equipped to receive shore power to conduct the testing and inspection necessary to validate the safety of utilizing the shore power equipment during its current and future visits to that berth upon each initial visit by that vessel to specified marine terminals. The bill would require an oceangoing vessel that exceeds specified hours of service limitations because the testing and safety inspections of the equipment on the vessel that allows the use of electricity from the terminal have not validated the safety of the equipment to be subject to these provisions under specified circumstances.