California Air Resources Board

Summary 

Requires any commercial feed, feed additive, or drug approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration that is fed to livestock to be under the oversight of the California Department of Agriculture as the primary State regulatory agency, including, but not limited to, products that make environmental and health claims. This provision explicitly does not limit the CARB’s authority in Section 39730.7 of the Health and Safety Code.

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Would have required CalRecycle to allow a local jurisdiction until December 1, 2031, in procuring recovered organic waste products to meet the target procurement requirements under the Short-lived Climate Pollutant Strategy, to use California-derived recovered organic waste that the local jurisdiction sends for processing at a facility outside of the State that meets certain conditions, as provided. Held on suspense in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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Summary 

Would have required CARB by December 31, 2025, to include in the SB 901 (Dodd, 2018) report, a methodology to quantify GHG and short-lived climate pollutant emissions, including black carbon from wildfire, pile burning, and forest management activities and a list of the data needed to use the methodology. This bill also would have established a Forest Waste Biomass Utilization Program to be administered by the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection’s Joint Institute for Wood Products Innovation, required the California Natural Resources Agency to facilitate the inclusion of recommendations for forest biomass waste utilization in relevant State climate adaptation plans, and required the California Energy Commission to report on innovative bioenergy technologies that utilize forest biomass waste. This bill was similar to AB 2878 (Aguiar-Curry, 2022).  Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee. 

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