California Air Resources Board

Summary 

Would have authorized CARB to provide a voucher under the California Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher (HVIP) for zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) that meet specified requirements. This bill would have required the individual receiving the voucher to attest to CARB that the vehicle will be primarily used for commercial or business purposes. This bill would have also made grant funding available for Local Education Agencies (LEAs) to purchase ZEV schoolbuses through private contractors. Was not heard in the Assembly Transportation Committee. 

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Urges the United States Congress and President Biden to support a $100 million supplemental funding request to address the ongoing impacts on public health, the environment, and the local economy caused by cross-jurisdictional pollution from the Navy North Hangar Fire in Tustin, and to include in future federal budgets sufficient ongoing operational and maintenance funding for Navy North Hangar Fire remediation. The measure urges President Biden to declare a national emergency due to the ongoing impacts.

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This bill requires the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to provide rebates, via the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP) for zero-emission pickup trucks and requires CARB to ensure that the rebate provided is $2500 more than rebates provided for other fuel cell or battery electric vehicles. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Would have required CEC to develop a plan, convene a public workshop process, and take specified actions to improve reliability, service quality, and operational uptime of hydrogen stations. The bill also would have required CEC to conduct an analysis of barriers to improving station performance and develop recommendations for doing so, including, but not limited to, an analysis of the use of a station ranking system and credits issued to hydrogen fueling stations under the LCFS to penalize and award retail hydrogen refueling stations based on their performance. Held on suspense in the Senate Appropriations Committee. 

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Would have required the California Energy Commission to allocate funding from the Clean Transportation Program to help build a statewide publicly available hydrogen fueling station network based on CARB's estimation of need. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Authorizes transit agencies to continuously use Low Carbon Transit Operation Program (LCTOP) dollars to fund a free or reduced fare transit projects without having to demonstrate specified statutory requirements like greenhouse (GHG) reductions in annual allocation requests. Instead of annual reporting in allocation requests, the bill requires transit agencies, in using LCTOP funds for transit pass programs, to submit (1) an allocation request for funding for transit passes every three years after the initial allocation request to the California Department of Transportation (CalTrans) and (2) necessary GHG and priority population (disadvantaged and low-income communities) documentation annually to Caltrans in years where an allocation request is not required.

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