California Air Resources Board

Summary

Would contain statutory provisions necessary to implement the Budget Act of 2021. Related to CARB, would establish the Regional Early Action Planning Grants Program of 2021, developed and administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), in collaboration with the Office of Planning and Research (OPR), the Strategic Growth Council (SGC), and CARB to provide regions with funding, including grants. Eligible activities for transformative planning and implementation would include administering specified programs, providing jurisdictions and other local agencies with technical assistance, planning, temporary staffing, or consultant needs associated with updating local planning and zoning documents, accelerating infill development, planning and upgrading infrastructure, creating multimodal transportation communities, shifting travel behavior through reducing driving, and increasing transit ridership, each as specified. HCD, in collaboration with COPR, SGC and CARB would review applications, and HCD would award funds, as specified.  Was not heard in the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review.

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Contains statutory provisions necessary to implement the Budget Act of 2021. Related to CARB, establishes the Regional Early Action Planning Grants Program of 2021, to be developed and administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), in collaboration with the Office of Planning and Research (OPR), the Strategic Growth Council (SGC), and CARB to provide regions with funding, including grants. Eligible activities for transformative planning and implementation include, but are not limited to,  administering specified programs, providing jurisdictions and other local agencies with technical assistance, planning, temporary staffing, or consultant needs associated with updating local planning and zoning documents, accelerating infill development, planning and upgrading infrastructure, creating multimodal transportation communities, shifting travel behavior through reducing driving, and increasing transit ridership, each as specified. HCD, in collaboration with OPR, SGC and CARB shall review applications, and HCD shall award funds, as specified.

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Contains statutory provisions necessary to implement the Budget Act of 2021. Among other things, the bill continuously appropriates $200 million from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) annually until the 2028-29 fiscal year for healthy forest and fire prevention programs and projects that improve forest health and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases caused by wildfires and for completion of prescribed fires and other fuel reduction projects. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the bill makes available $50 million in the 2022-2023 fiscal year to the Department of Conservation, in coordination with CARB and the California Energy Commission, for pilot projects in the Sierra Nevada to create carbon-negative fuels from materials resulting from forest vegetation management. The bill also requires the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle), upon appropriation by the Legislature, to administer a grant program through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Revolving Loan Program to provide financial assistance to promote in-state development of infrastructure, food waste prevention, or other projects to reduce organic waste or process organic and other recyclable materials into new, value-added products. The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Revolving Loan Fund receives funding from GGRF. Additionally, this bill extends the eligibility for the existing fuel cell net energy metering tariff that utilities have filed with the California Public Utilities Commission from December 31, 2021 to December 31, 2023.

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Early action budget package that amends the 2020-21 Budget Act. Among other things, the bill appropriates money from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) for wildfire prevention, natural resources, and forest resiliency. The bill also makes re-appropriations to extend encumbrance and expenditure dates for GGRF appropriations. 

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Contains statutory provisions necessary to implement the Budget Act of 2021. Among other things, the bill authorizes CARB, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to administer a program to support incentives for alternatives to agricultural burning in the San Joaquin Valley. The bill also exempts the adoption or use of funding criteria or other guidelines related to the granting of funds under this program from the Administrative Procedure Act.

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Contains statutory provisions related to State government necessary to implement the Budget Act of 2021. Specifically, the bill extends, to January 1, 2022, the implementation date of the Buy Clean California Act (Bonta, Chapter 816, Statutes of 2017), which requires the Department of General Services (DGS) to establish acceptable Global Warming Potential (GWP) limits for the manufacture of certain construction materials used in public work projects. The bill also requires DGS to consult with CARB when establishing maximum acceptable GWP limits for each category of eligible materials under the Buy Clean California Act.

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Would have made statutory changes to the fiscal year 2020-21 budget package to implement actions related to transportation.  Of interest to CARB, the budget trailer bill would have appropriated $1.7 million from the Air Pollution Control Fund to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to develop an interface system for the DMV’s vehicle registration system to communicate with CARB’s compliance database.  The budget trailer bill also would have required the State Controller to allocate Low Carbon Transit Operations Program (LCTOP) funding for the 2020–21 and 2021–22 fiscal years to recipient transit agencies based on transit operator ratios.  LCTOP receives a continuous appropriation from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.  Was not heard in the Assembly Budget Committee.

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Would have established the Climate Catalyst Revolving Loan Fund Act of 2020.  This bill would have created the Climate Catalyst Revolving Loan Fund (Fund) within the State Treasury, and made the moneys in the fund available for expenditure, upon appropriation by the Legislature.  This bill would have also required the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (IBank) to administer the Fund and would have authorized IBank to provide financial assistance to any eligible sponsor or participating party for eligible climate catalyst projects.  Failed passage on the Assembly Floor.

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Makes statutory changes to the fiscal year 2020-21 budget package to implement actions related to transportation.  Of interest to CARB, the budget trailer bill appropriates $1.7 million from the Air Pollution Control Fund to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to develop an interface system for the DMV’s vehicle registration system to communicate with CARB’s compliance database.  The budget trailer bill also requires the State Controller to allocate Low Carbon Transit Operations Program (LCTOP) funding for the 2020–21 and 2021–22 fiscal years to recipient transit agencies based on transit operator ratios.  LCTOP receives a continuous appropriation from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. 

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Establishes the Climate Catalyst Revolving Loan Fund Act of 2020.  The bill creates the Climate Catalyst Revolving Loan Fund (Fund) within the State Treasury and makes the moneys in the fund available for expenditure, upon appropriation by the Legislature.  The bill also requires the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (IBank) to administer the Fund and authorizes IBank to provide financial assistance to any eligible sponsor or participating party for eligible Climate Catalyst projects.

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