California Air Resources Board

Metropolitan Planning Organization for Kern County

Kern Council of Governments (KernCOG), the federally-designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Kern County and its eleven cities, is located in California’s San Joaquin Valley. KernCOG is located north of Southern California and is the Southernmost MPO in the San Joaquin Valley. KernCOG adopted its second Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy (RTP/SCS) in 2018.

2018 RTP/SCS

• CARB staff's technical evaluation of the Kern Council of Governments' (KernCOG) 2018 Sustainable Communities Strategy (July 2020)
• CARB Executive Order accepting KernCOG's determination that the 2018 SCS would meet the region's GHG emissions reduction targets (July 2020)
• 2018 Regional Transportation Plan and Sustainable Communities Strategy, adopted August 16, 2018

2014 RTP/SCS

• CARB staff's technical evaluation of the Kern Council of Governments' (KernCOG) 2014 Sustainable Communities Strategy (July 2015)
• CARB Resolution accepting KernCOG's determination that the Final SCS would meet the region's GHG emissions reduction targets (July 2015)
• 2014 Regional Transportation Plan and Sustainable Communities Strategy, adopted June 19, 2014