California Air Resources Board

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Creates a waiver for low-population local jurisdictions and exempts those jurisdictions from SB 1383 (Lara, 2016) organics waste diversion goals until December 31, 2028, if they do not already have another, specified, waiver.

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An earlier version of this bill would have required CARB, on or before August 1, 2026, in consultation with the California Department of Food and Agriculture, to create a feed additive program, including voluntary incentives, to reduce emissions from dairy cattle, and would have required CARB to convene a workgroup to complete a comprehensive assessment of the potential impacts of feed additives on dairy cattle. Amended to deal with elections.

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For CARB and air districts, this bill expands the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) regulatory process to apply to virtually every regulation CARB and districts might promulgate, regardless of environmental impact. Requires CARB, air districts, and other specified agencies to complete a specific alternative environmental analysis or the equivalent of an Environmental Impact Report for every regulation adopted that directly or indirectly requires emission reductions of greenhouse gases, criteria air pollutants, or toxic air contaminants. This bill might expand the circumstances under which a focused Environmental Impact Report could be used by regulated entities for the installation of air pollution control equipment and related components and also could add extensive labor requirements if the focused Environmental Impact Report is used, both under current law and under the expanded CEQA analysis on regulations required by this bill. Moved to the inactive file on the Assembly Floor.

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Prohibits the County of Riverside, the County of San Bernardino, and jurisdictions therein from approving the development or expansion of any logistics use, as defined, that is adjacent to sensitive receptors, as defined, unless the local agency imposes certain requirements, as specified, including a minimum setback on the logistics use of 300 feet, if the logistics use consists of 400,000 or more square feet of building space, including, but not limited to, warehouses. Did not receive a hearing in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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Prohibits the establishment of new transformation or engineered municipal solid waste (EMSW) conversion facilities in the State until CalRecycle has determined that the State has achieved solid waste and organic waste policy goals for three consecutive years. Was not heard in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Enacts the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparation, Flood Protection, Extreme Heat Mitigation, and Workforce Development Bond Act of 2024, which, if approved by voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $15.995 billion to finance projects for safe drinking water, wildfire prevention, drought preparation, flood protection, extreme heat mitigation, clean energy, and workforce development programs. As related to CARB, the bond allocates $125 million to the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, who would consult with CARB and California Natural Resources Agency to fund projects that provide long-term capital infrastructure to convert forest and other vegetative waste removed for wildfire mitigation to uses that maximize reductions in the greenhouse gas emissions, provide local air quality benefits, and increase local community resilience against climate change impacts. This bill also allocates $500 million to the California Energy Commission, in coordination with CARB and the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, for grants to assist in obtaining, or as a match fund for, federal grants related to regional hubs in the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the federal Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Was not heard in the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee. 

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Would have required CARB, no later than June 30, 2026, to evaluate and, if feasible and to the extent data is available, revise regulations to incorporate the use of methane remote sensing data to reduce methane emissions from municipal solid waste landfills pursuant to the Short-lived Climate Pollution Strategy. 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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Increases the priority population minimum investment amounts from the California Climate Investments from 25% to 50% for disadvantaged communities and from 5% to 15% for low-income communities. Was not heard in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

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Commencing January 1, 2024, requires each transportation planning agency, when updating the regional transportation plan, to base the sustainable communities strategy (SCS) on population projections produced by the California Department of Finance and regional population forecasts used in determining applicable city and county regional housing needs, in consultation with each council of governments, and describe how to resolve differences in population projections. This bill also requires the annual Regional Housing Needs Assessment report that a city or county planning agency provides annually to the California Department of Housing and Community Development to include the progress of the city or county towards the recommended alignment of land use regulations with applicable SCS or alternative planning strategy. Was not heard in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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