2005 California Health and Safety Code Sections 44400-44404 PART 8. COMMERCIAL SPACE PROGRAMS

44400.  This part applies only to Santa Barbara County, Kern County,
and San Luis Obispo County.  This part shall be known, and may be
cited, as the Commercial Space Program Permit Streamlining Act of
1996.
44401.  As used in this part, the following terms have the following
meaning:
   (a) "Commercial space program" means all nongovernmental
activities and equipment at a facility, as defined in subdivision
(b), that involve the manufacture or assembly of space vehicles,
space launch vehicles, or satellites for purposes of commercial space
launch, or that engage in the preparation for launch or the launch
of those vehicles or satellites, that have a Standard Industrial
Classification code other than national security, and that are the
responsibility of, and are controlled by, the owner or operator of
the facility.
   (b) "Facility" means every structure, appurtenance, and
improvement that is located on one or more contiguous or adjacent
properties under the control of the same person, or under the common
control of the same persons.
   (c) "Space vehicle" or "expendable space launch vehicle" means a
fabricated part, assembly of parts, or completed unit designed to
boost payload spacecraft into the atmosphere and which is consumed or
destroyed in the process of boosting the payload from the launchpad.
   (d) "Space launch" means to place or attempt to place a space
vehicle or expendable space launch vehicle and any payload in
suborbital trajectory, in Earth orbit in outer space, or otherwise in
outer space.
44402.  This part applies to regulation of any commercial space
program for the purposes of all air pollution regulation under state
or local authority.
44403.  For purposes of air pollution permitting pursuant to this
division, each commercial space program is a separate stationary
source if it meets the federal criteria for a stationary source in
Section 52.21 of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations and it
is consistent with the state implementation plan.
44404.  This part shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2007,
and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that is enacted before January 1, 2007, deletes or extends that date.