California Air Resources Board

Summary

Requires, until January 1, 2024, local agencies to make the installation of an emergency backup generator to serve a macro cell tower site, as defined, that meets specified requirements, a permitted use.  The bill also requires a local agency to review an application for installation on an administrative, nondiscretionary basis. 

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Provides that a Metropolitan Planning Organization or Transportation Planning Agency is not required to submit a Federal Transportation Improvement Program to the U.S. Department of Transportation (Department), and the Department is not required to submit the Federal Statewide Transportation Improvement Program to the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, for 2020.

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Exempts from the California Environmental Quality Act, until 2023, various transportation projects such as pedestrian and bicycle facilities projects, charging infrastructure for zero-emission buses, and new rapid transit, bus, or light rail service. Projects must be carried out by a public lead agency, located in an urbanized area on or within an existing public right-of-way, not add physical infrastructure that increases new automobile capacity on existing rights-of-way, not require demolition of affordable housing units, and be completed by a skilled and trained workforce, except as provided.

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Authorizes special environmental review procedures similar to the Jobs and Economic Improvement through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011 (AB 900, Buchanan, Chapter 345, Statutes of 2011) for the San Diego Area Council of Governments for a suite of transit projects on an underused U.S. Navy site in San Diego.  The procedures include authorizing California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) streamlining in exchange for complying with several environmental requirements and a CARB greenhouse gas emission determination with specified local mitigation measures.

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Requires the California Energy Commission to provide research and development support for zero-emissions fuels, infrastructure, and technologies using available funds that are currently set aside for the development of clean diesel fuels, infrastructure, and technologies.

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Defines dimethyl ether-propane fuel blend, sets the State excise tax on that blend and on dimethyl ether used as a vehicle fuel at $0.06 per gallon, and exempts that fuel blend from specified signage requirements.  The bill makes other conforming changes related to the taxation of dimethyl ether and a dimethyl ether-propane fuel blend as a vehicle fuel. 

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Requires the Labor and Workforce Development Agency and Workforce Development Board to oversee a stakeholder process to develop recommendations on how best to mitigate employment impacts of automation at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.  The bill also requires these agencies to issue findings and recommendations from the stakeholder process no later than July 1, 2023.  The bill also requires the California Workforce Development Board to present a previously required report on helping industry, workers, and communities transition to changes related to statewide greenhouse gas emission reduction goals. 

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Reiterates that Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO), in the development of a Sustainable Community Strategy (SCS), are allowed to conduct meetings with the public through electronic means if a call-in telephonic option is also provided and the informational meeting is not required to be conducted pursuant to the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5).  This bill removes the requirement for MPOs to present an urban simulation model of an SCS at a public workshop.  The provisions of the bill sunset on January 1, 2023, at which point statute reverts to current law with minor nonsubstantive changes. 

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Of interest to CARB, extends a sunset date from December 31, 2020 to December 31, 2021, to continue a 20 percent incentive set‑aside for early commercial existing zero and near‑zero‑emission truck technology within CARB’s California Clean Truck, Bus, and Off‑Road Vehicle and Equipment Technology Program.

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Ensures that existing consumer protections for electrical service provided to master-metered customers are also explicitly provided to sub-metered residents and tenants of mobile home parks, apartment buildings, or similar residential complexes, regardless of whether the electrical generation is provided by an entity other than an electrical corporation.  This bill also explicitly requires that any credit to customers from the revenues from the sale of GHG allowances directly allocated to electrical corporations must also be distributed to sub-metered customers by a master-metered customer.

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