BILL NUMBER:  AB 680
  VETOED	DATE: 09/28/2000




SEP 28 2000

To Members of the California Assembly:

I am returning Assembly Bill 680 without my signature.

This bill would revise the penalties for oil spills in the inland
waters of the state.

This bill inappropriately revises the Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil
Spill Prevention and Response Act - an act intended to address the
threat of oil spills to California's coastal waters.  This bill
diverts the original focus and intent of the Act and creates a
confusing web of overlapping enforcement authority that could impede
enforcement actions by state and local agencies that otherwise could
pursue their own causes of action.

Sincerely,





GRAY DAVIS