Low Carbon Fuel Standard Regulation

This page last reviewed November 20, 2015

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER A LOW CARBON FUEL STANDARD

(Hearing Date: February 19, 2015 and September 24, 2015)
The second hearing for the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulation has been shifted from July to September 2015.

LCFS program page: https://www.arb.ca.gov/fuels/lcfs/lcfs.htm
The hearing will be on September 24^th and 25^th in Sacramento, California. https://www.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/classic/regact/regact15.htm

Public Comments Received

FINAL APPROVAL / OAL ACTION

OAL approved the rulemaking and filed it with the Secretary of State on November 16, 2015. The effective date is January 1, 2016.

Endorsed Form 400 (PDF - 1.05MB)
Final Regulation Order (PDF - 922K)
Addendum to FSOR (PDF - 31K)

ADOPTED REGULATIONS AND MATERIALS SUBMITTED TO OAL

The Final Rulemaking Package was filed with OAL on October 2, 2015. OAL has until November 16, 2015 to make a determination.

Final Regulation Order ~see revised above~

Final Statement of Reasons (PDF - 236924K)

Updated Informative Digest (PDF - 137K)
Notice of Decision (PDF - 502K)

SECOND HEARING ACTION

Posted October 5, 2015

Resolution 15-36 (PDF - 679KB)
Attachment D ~ Findings and Statement of Overriding Considerations (PDF - 97K)

Resolution 15-51 (PDF - 689KB)

SECOND PUBLIC HEARING MATERIALS

Posted September 25, 2015

Supplemental Responses to Comments on the Low Carbon Fuel Standard Regulation (PDF - 102K)
Supplement to the Responses to Comments on the Environmental Analysis (PDF - 56K)

Posted September 24, 2015

Responses to Comments on the Low Carbon Fuel Standard Regulation (PDF - 221MB)

Posted September 21, 2015

The LCFS regulation proposed text, incorporating all 15-day changes (PDF - 877K)
Final Environmental Analysis (EA) (PDF - 1576K)
Response to Comments on the EA (PDF - 50809K)

HEARING ACTION AND SUPPLEMENTAL 15-DAY NOTICES

Posted July 31, 2015

Third Notice of Public Availability of Modified Text and Availability of Additional Documents (PDF - 25K)
Deadline for Public Comment: August 17, 2015
Attachment A ~ Third 15-Day Modified Regulation Order (PDF - 649K)

Posted June 23, 2015

Second Notice of Public Availability of Modified Text (PDF - 25K)
Deadline for Public Comment: July 8, 2015
Attachment A ~ Second 15-Day Modified Regulation Order (PDF - 649K)

Posted June 4, 2015

Notice of Public Availability of Modified Text and Availability of Additional Documents (PDF - 6.5MB)

Deadline for Public Comment: June 19, 2015
Attachment A ~ Modified Regulation Order (PDF - 772K)

Posted April 24, 2015

Resolution 15-6 (PDF - 509KB)

Attachment A: Staff's Suggested Modifications to the Original Proposal (PDF - 14KB)

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE AND RELATED MATERIAL

Posted December 30, 2014

***Please note: These documents were replaced with corrected versions on December 31, 2014 at 9:30 a.m.

Notice of Public Hearing (PDF - 1.66MK)

Deadline to Submit Public Comments: February 17, 2015, at 5:00 p.m. or at the Public Hearing on February 19, 2015.

Staff Report: Initial Statement of Reasons (ISOR)*** (PDF - 1.71M)

Appendix A***: Proposed Regulation Order (PDF - 843K)
Appendix B: Development of Illustrative Compliance Scenarios and Evaluation of Potential Compliance Curves (PDF - 326K)
Appendix C: Comparison of CA-GREET 1.8B, GREET1 2013, and CA-GREET 2.0 (PDF - 311K)
Appendix D: Draft Environmental Analysis (PDF - 936K)
Appendix E***: Summary of DOF Comments to the Combined LCFS/ADF SRIA and ARB Responses, Includes Combined LCFS/ADF SRIA (PDF - 161K)
Appendix F: Inputs and Outputs of the REMI Modeling (PDF - 40K)
Appendix G: Default Credit Calculation for Innovative Crude Production Methods (PDF - 48K)
Appendix H: Estimating Carbon Intensity Values for the Crude Lookup Table (PDF - 74K)
Appendix I***: Detailed Analysis for Indirect Land Use Change (PDF - 1.42M)

INFORMAL REGULATORY ACTIVITY

Rulemaking Activity for 2015