The 2024 Community Air Protection (CAP) Incentives Guidelines have been revised with a variety of new project categories and updates to existing project types. The CAP Incentives Guidelines provide eligibility for incentives to reduce hexavalent chromium emissions from chrome plating activities, a suite of project types to reduce exposure at sensitive receptors, and a framework allowing air districts, in collaboration with their communities, to create new kinds of incentives to address other stationary sources of pollution or sources identified in their Community Emission Reduction Programs, created per the requirements of AB 617.
The new project categories are based on one or more approved Project Plans developed by air districts over the past five years of implementation. These include: