California Air Resources Board

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Would have updated the SB 375 (Steinberg, Chapter 728, Statutes of 2008) program and added new requirements for the entities involved in developing Sustainable Communities Strategies (SCS). CARB would have been required to adopt additional greenhouse gas targets for 2045 and 2050 for SCSs and vehicle miles traveled targets for 2035, 2045, 2050, by 2024. CARB would have received additional time to review SCSs and been required to reject them if they were not implementable based on specific evidentiary basis. Metropolitan planning organizations would have been required to work with CARB on technical methodologies, submit draft SCS for CARB review 90 days before adoption, respond to CARB comments on the draft, and submit final SCS for CARB evaluation within 60 days after adoption. Local government would have been required to collect data on housing, jobs, and transit infrastructure and report every two years to metropolitan planning organizations demonstrating how SCS strategies are implemented, including the data described above. Was not heard in the Senate Committee on Transportation.

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Requires operators of refineries in the state that produce gasoline meeting California specifications, within 30 days of the end of each calendar month, to submit a report to the California Energy Commission containing certain information, including the difference between the cost per barrel of oil and the price of gasoline sold by the refinery. The bill requires the California Energy Commission to post that data online, in aggregate, within 45 days of the end of each calendar month.

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Makes a number of updates to the Green Chemistry program with the intent to decrease the time from listing of a priority product to an eventual regulatory response. The bill also removes the informal dispute resolution and administrative appeal processes regarding product listing decisions, and would impose seven year workplan timelines on the California Department of Toxic Substances Control.

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Would require CARB to appoint, on or before January 31, 2022, the State-Regional Collaborative for Climate, Equity, and Resilience, consisting of representatives of various entities. Would require the Collaborative to develop a quantitative tool for metropolitan planning organizations to use to evaluate a transportation plan’s consistency with long-range greenhouse gas emission reduction targets and recommend guidelines for metropolitan planning organizations to use when crafting long-range strategies that integrate state goals related to climate resilience and social equity. Would require CARB, on or before June 30, 2023, and in coordination with the California Transportation Commission (CTC) and the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), issue new guidelines on sustainable communities strategies based on the Collaborative’s work and requires these guidelines to be updated thereafter at least every 4 years. Would require CARB, in consultation with CTC and HCD, identify greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for 2050 that align with the Collaborative’s work. Was not heard in the Senate Transportation Committee.

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Would require CARB to adopt additional greenhouse gas targets for 2045 and 2050, and vehicle miles traveled targets for 2035, 2045, 2050, by 2024; would modify the timeline for Sustainable Community Strategies (SCS) development; and would require CARB to reject SCSs if they are not implementable based on specific evidentiary basis.  Would require local governments to collect data on housing, jobs, and transit infrastructure and report every two years to metropolitan planning organizations to demonstrate how SCS strategies are implemented, using the data described above. Was not heard in the Senate Transportation Committee.

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Requires the courts, until January 1, 2025, to resolve CEQA challenges within 365 days for up to seven transit projects in Los Angeles County that meet specific vehicle miles traveled and greenhouse gas emission criteria.

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Would make changes to the Safer Consumer Product program, based on the Public Health Institute’s recent Green Chemistry Initiative report, with the intent to decrease the time from listing of a priority product to an eventual regulatory response. The bill also would remove the informal dispute resolution and administrative appeal processes regarding product listing decisions, and would impose seven year workplan timelines on the California Department of Toxic Substances Control. Moved to the Senate Inactive File.

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Would have required the Secretary of the California Transportation Agency (CalSTA) to establish the California Council on the Future of Transportation (Council). The Council would have been required to provide the Governor and the Legislature with recommendations for changes and updates to State policy related to autonomous vehicles (AVs). Relevant to CARB, the bill specifies that CARB’s Chair, or their designee, would have served as a member of the Council. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Would have authorized a transactions and use tax to be placed on the ballot for approval by the South Coast Air Quality Management District’s (SCAQMD) electorate, if it had been approved by a majority vote of the SCAQMD’s governing board.  The bill would have required the SCAQMD to establish an independent taxpayers’ oversight committee within six months of the effective date of the transactions and use tax levy, increase, or extension to ensure that revenues generated by the levy, increase, or extension are expended consistent with the applicable requirements of the bill.  The bill would have required that all moneys received by SCAQMD from the transactions and use tax be used to implement projects that reduce air pollution through incentives and other measures to first fully implement SCAQMD’s state implementation plan and any subsequent air quality attainment plans, as specified.  Was not heard in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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Would have required CARB to provide each Metropolitan Planning Organization that completes a Sustainable Communities Strategy with greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for the automobile and light truck sector for 2045 and 2050, and with vehicle miles traveled reduction targets for 2035, 2045, and 2050.  CARB would have been required to provide the targets no later than December 31, 2022, and release a draft of those targets no later than September 30, 2022, as specified.  Was not heard in the Senate Transportation or Housing Committees.

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