This annotated model state legislation provides a template for state legislatures to designate a lead agency with responsibility for coordinating the various permitting processes for biogas facilities, including gathering lines and injection lines.
Directs the appropriate agency to conduct a study regarding the availability of renewable gas for use in the state by gas utility companies.
Providing a template for local governments to amend their zoning regulations to make biogas production facilities a contemplated and accepted use, which would make development of such facilities quicker and less costly.
Model legislation based on California’s proposed SB 687, which would have established a renewable gas standard requiring an average carbon intensity reduction of 1% in 2020, increasing to 10% by 2030.