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The California Air Resources Board (CARB or Board) invites you to participate in a public meeting to discuss research priorities for CARB to fund in fiscal year 2024-2025. The purpose of the meeting is to solicit comments from the public on the research concepts that CARB is considering to fund in fiscal year 2024-2025. In addition, staff will provide an update on the submissions CARB received from the public call for research concepts and comments. To attend this meeting, please use the registration link below. Material that will be presented at the meeting will be available on the research comment portal for public review after November 3, 2023.

Meeting Date: November 15, 2023
Meeting Time: 5:30 to 7:00 PM PDT
Meeting Location: Zoom

Background

The Legislature created the Board’s research program in 1971 to support CARB’s goals by providing the scientific foundation for effective air pollution control. The research program encompasses all aspects of air pollution and plays an important role in meeting the challenges of increasingly stringent federal air quality standards and long-term climate goals and serves as the foundation for effective regulatory decisions. Research Program priorities are also responsive to emerging topics, public input, and aim to advance measuring and monitoring methods and improve health outcomes.

Each year, CARB funds 10-12 cutting edge research projects that serve CARB’s mission. A solicitation for pre-proposals is released based on the final projects. It is anticipated that projects will commence as early as October 2024.

CARB collects public input on research priorities through a variety of methods. CARB staff host public meetings and comment periods for the development of each Strategic Research Plan, as well as the annual list of projects that are presented to the public for input.

This year, CARB collected research concepts and comments during the summer of 2023 and has used the submissions to develop a list of prospective project concepts that are in alignment with CARB program priorities. The list of CARB’s research priorities typically exceeds what can be funded by CARB’s annual research budget of $4-6 million. Comments collected from the public at this meeting will help to determine the highest priority project concepts that CARB could fund in fiscal year 2024-2025.

The public meeting will begin with introductions and a brief overview of the CARB Research Program by CARB staff, as well as a summary of the comments and concepts submitted by the public from the public call for research concepts and comments that closed on July 31, 2023. The staff presentation will be followed by an open discussion of the list of project concepts being considered. All comments from the discussion will be recorded and used to guide project selection.

Tentative Agenda

• 5:30 to 5:35 PM: Introductions
• 5:35 to 5:50 PM: CARB Research Program Overview
• 5:50 to 6:15 PM: Summary of Comments and Concepts Received
• 6:15 to 7:00 PM: Open Discussion of Proposed Research Concepts (order of topics to be discussed)
  • Proposed Health and Environmental Justice Research
  • Proposed Mobile Sources and Environmental Justice Research
  • Proposed Air Quality, Climate, Sustainable Communities and EJ Research

Comments

Please fill out this poll by 5 p.m. on November 27, 2023 to provide feedback on which of the proposed concepts are high priority. To submit a written comment on research priorities for CARB to fund in fiscal year 2024-2025, please email them to research@arb.ca.gov by 5 PM on November 27, 2023. A summary of all comments received at the meeting, through the poll, and via email will be summarized in a new appendix in an updated version of the 2021-2024 Triennial Strategic Research Plan that will be available in early 2024.