Chapter 6 - POWER FACILITY AND SITE CERTIFICATION

Section 25500 - Exclusive power to certify sites and facilities; certification in lieu of permit or similar required document; certification required
Section 25500.1 - Amendment to proposed solar thermal powerplant certificate to convert facility from solar thermal technology to photovoltaic technology
Section 25500.5 - Certification of sufficient sites and facilities
Section 25501 - Inapplicability of chapter
Section 25501.7 - Notice to waive exclusion of site and facility from provisions of chapter
Section 25502 - Notice of intention to file application for certification
Section 25502.3 - Waiver of exclusion by filing notice of intention to file application for certification
Section 25503 - Alternative sites and facilities included in notice
Section 25504 - Statement in notice describing location of proposed sites
Section 25504.5 - Site will accommodate maximum electric generating capacity in excess of capacity being proposed
Section 25505 - Publication of summary of notice; copy transmitted to Public Utilities Commission
Section 25506 - Comments and recommendations by local, regional, state and federal agencies
Section 25506.5 - Comments and recommendations by Public Utilities Commission
Section 25507 - Copy of notice transmitted to California coastal Commission; copy transmitted to San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission
Section 25508 - Cooperation and advice rendered in studying applications
Section 25509 - Public informational presentations after notice filed
Section 25509.5 - Nonadjudicatory hearings after conclusion of presentations
Section 25510 - Summary and hearing order after conclusion of hearings
Section 25511 - Information required in determining appropriateness of sites and facilities
Section 25512 - Summary and hearing order requirements
Section 25512.5 - Distribution of copy of summary and hearing order
Section 25513 - Commencement of adjudicatory hearings
Section 25513.3 - Investigator or advocate in adjudicative proceedings serving as supervisor or presiding officer or assisting presiding officer
Section 25514 - Final report after conclusion of hearings
Section 25514.3 - Modifications, conditions or criteria specified for sites and facilities requiring certificate of public convenience and necessity
Section 25514.5 - Considering acceptability of site proposed to accommodate additional power-generating capacity
Section 25515 - Hearings on final report
Section 25516 - Findings approving notice
Section 25516.1 - Site and related facility found acceptable located in coastal zone, Suisun Marsh or jurisdiction of San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission
Section 25516.5 - Findings on notice proposing expanded ultimate electric generating capacity for site
Section 25516.6 - Time for issuing written decision on notice; determination on completeness of notice
Section 25517 - Certification required to commence construction; restoration of onsite improvements if certification denied
Section 25518 - Certificate required for issuance of certificate of public convenience and necessity
Section 25518.5 - Concurrent initiation of application for certificate of public convenience and necessity
Section 25519 - [Effective Until 1/1/2025] Application for certification of site and facility
Section 25519 - [Effective 1/1/2025] Application for certification of site and facility
Section 25519.5 - Site or facilities to be located near military installation, within special use airspace or beneath low-level flight path
Section 25520 - Information required in application
Section 25520.5 - Reviewing application for additional facility at potential multiple-facility site
Section 25521 - Commencement of public hearings on application
Section 25522 - Time for issuance of written decision on application; determination as to completeness of application
Section 25523 - Written decision after public hearing
Section 25523.5 - [Repealed]
Section 25524 - Additional fees used to contract with third party to assist commission
Section 25524.1 - Finding that technology exists for construction and operation of nuclear fuel rod processing plants
Section 25524.2 - Finding that there exists demonstrated technology or means for disposal of high-level nuclear waste
Section 25524.5 - Certification of facility adding generating capacity to potential multiple-facility site in excess of maximum allowable capacity
Section 25525 - Certification of facility not conforming to applicable standards, ordinances or laws
Section 25526 - Approval of site for facility any location designated by California Coastal Commission
Section 25527 - Approval of parks, wilderness, scenic or natural reserves, wildlife protection areas, etc. as site for facility
Section 25528 - Applicant required to acquire right to prohibit development of privately owned lands in area of proposed site
Section 25529 - Area established for public use required as condition of certification
Section 25530 - Reconsideration of decision or order
Section 25531 - Judicial review of commission decision
Section 25532 - Establishment of monitoring system
Section 25534 - Amendment of conditions or revocation of certification; civil penalty; start-of-construction deadline
Section 25534.1 - Complaint issued to person or entity on whom administrative civil penalty imposed
Section 25534.2 - Petition for writ of mandate filed by aggrieved party
Section 25535 - Applicant's costs allowed for ratemaking purposes
Section 25537 - Results of studies forwarded to federal agencies upon approval of application
Section 25538 - Request for fee to reimburse local agency for costs of review by local agency
Section 25539 - Rules and regulations for reviewing certification of modifications of facility
Section 25540 - Proposal to construct geothermal power plant and related facilities
Section 25540.1 - Determination as to whether notice and application for geothermal powerplant complete
Section 25540.2 - Site capable of providing geothermal resources in commercial quantities
Section 25540.3 - Site for geothermal powerplant proposed will accommodate potential maximum electric generating capacity
Section 25540.4 - Application for additional facility at potential multiple facility site
Section 25540.5 - Equivalent certification program delegating to county authority for certification of geothermal powerplants in county
Section 25540.6 - Application for approval of thermal power plants
Section 25541 - Exemption of thermal powerplants from chapter
Section 25541.1 - Thermal powerplants using resource recovery (waste-to-energy) technology
Section 25541.5 - Review of regulatory program
Section 25542 - Sites and related facilities to which division not applicable
Section 25543 - Report on improving siting and licensing process for thermal powerplants of 50 megawatts and larger