California Air Resources Board

Summary

Requires a local air district whose jurisdiction includes a metal shredding facility, in consultation with the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) and the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), to develop by January 1, 2027, requirements for facility-wide fence-line air quality monitoring at metal shredding facilities, as provided. The bill requires the local air district to, among other things, develop threshold levels for airborne contaminants in consultation with OEHHA, and to adopt regulations by July 1, 2027, to implement the requirements of the bill. The bill authorizes the local air district to be reimbursed for these costs pursuant to its fee authority. The bill requires DTSC to require metal shredding facilities to monitor and report hazardous waste constituents and requires DTSC to collect and analyze light fibrous material at the fence lines to determine the potential for release of hazardous waste. The bill requires DTSC, by July 1, 2027, to develop a community notification procedure, among other things.

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Would have directed CARB to work with the California Transportation Commission (CTC) and Department of Housing and Community Development to create guidance for the programming of projects that expand the physical footprint of a highway to address the impact on the highest 10% of CalEnviroScreen communities. The bill would have required that this guidance be incorporated into the programming cycle, starting January 1, 2028. The bill would have required CTC to "establish a target" to use 15% of annual funds for investments in zero-emission infrastructure, beginning in cycle starting after January 1, 2025, and increase that by 5% each year, until setting the goal of 50%. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Would have required, on or before July 1, 2026, that 60 percent of the funding allocated to California State Transportation Agency, California Department of Transportation, and California Transportation Commission be allocated for projects for priority populations and would have directed these agencies, among other things, to jointly develop a definition of “priority population” and, by July 1, 2025, jointly evaluate all new proposed projects by the criteria. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Would have made explicit the inclusion of Commercial Harbor Craft (CHC) as eligible for funding in CARB’s Low Carbon Transportation program and Air Quality Improvement Program. The bill would have also added CHC as eligible for both the California Energy Commission’s Clean Transportation Program and Caltrans' Low Carbon Transit Operations Program. Held on suspense in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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Would have required the Department of General Services by January 1, 2024, to establish and publish a maximum acceptable global warming potential for concrete, as specified. The bill would have, beginning January 1, 2022, required an awarding authority to require a winning bidder for an eligible project to submit an Environmental Product Declaration developed in accordance with specified standards prior to installation of any concrete products.  Was not heard in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

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Would require the Department of General Services by January 1, 2024 to set a maximum acceptable global warming potential for concrete and decrease that maximum January 1, 2027 and every three years thereafter. Beginning January 1, 2023, the bill would require an awarding authority to apply a performance discount rate of 5 percent for concrete with a global warming potential 20 percent lower than the maximum. Was not heard in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

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