The Air Resources Board (ARB or Board) will conduct an evening
public workshop on May 3, 2016, to discuss ARB's Proposed
Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy (Proposed
Strategy). This workshop will follow the afternoon workshop
already scheduled in Bakersfield for the same day. This meeting
has been scheduled for those unable to attend the daytime meeting
and will cover the same material.
ARB released the Proposed Strategy and the Draft Environmental
Analysis (EA) for the Proposed Strategy for public review on
April 11, 2016. During the workshop, ARB staff will provide a
summary of the Proposed Strategy. We welcome and encourage your
participation in this effort.
The additional workshop will be held on the following date and
time:
Date: May 3, 2016
Time: 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Location:
San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District
Southern Region Office
34946 Flyover Court
Bakersfield, CA 93308
Directions:
http://www.valleyair.org/General_info/Directions_Bakersfield.htm
This additional workshop will be webcast for those unable to
attend in person. The webcast can be accessed at:
http://www.valleyair.org/Workshops/public_workshops_idx.htm.
Questions or comments can be submitted during the workshop to
webcast@valleyair.org.
The public can also attend this workshop by video conference at
the air district's Modesto and Fresno offices:
Modesto Office
4800 Enterprise Way
Modesto, CA 95356
Fresno Office
1990 E. Gettysburg Avenue
Fresno, California 93726
Updated Public Meeting Schedule:
• April 26: First Public Workshop on the Proposed
Strategy(Sacramento)
• May 3: Second Public Workshop on the Proposed Strategy (1:30
p.m. in Bakersfield)
• (NEW) May 3: Third Public Workshop on the Proposed Strategy
(6:00 p.m. in Bakersfield)
• May 19: Board Meeting for Proposed Strategy
• Late-Summer/Early-Fall: Board to consider approving a final
SLCP Strategy
Background
Short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) are powerful climate
forcers that remain in the atmosphere for a much shorter period
of time than major climate pollutants such as carbon dioxide
(CO2). Their relative potency in terms of how they heat the
atmosphere can be tens to thousands of times greater than CO2.
SLCPs include black carbon, methane, and fluorinated gases,
including hydrofluorocarbons. The impacts of SLCPs are
especially strong within the near term. Reducing these emissions
can have an immediate beneficial impact on climate change.
SLCP reductions are important to continuing and maintaining the
greenhouse gas reductions called for by AB 32 (Nunez, Chapter
488, Statutes of 2006) and SB 605
(Lara, Chapter 523, Statutes of 2014), and to ensuring emissions
meet the statewide greenhouse gas emission limit that AB 32
established. The Proposed Strategy is identified in the First
Update to the Climate Change Scoping Plan as one of the
recommended actions to achieve additional greenhouse gas emission
reductions. SB 605 further requires ARB, in coordination with
other State agencies and local air districts, to develop a
strategy to further reduce SLCP emissions in California.
A Draft Strategy was released for public comment on September 30,
2015. After considering comments received, ARB staff released
the Proposed Strategy on April 11, 2016, which will be presented
to the Board at a public meeting on May 19, 2016. The Board will
not vote on the Proposed Strategy at this meeting; a second Board
meeting will be scheduled for either late summer or early fall
for the Board to consider approving a final SLCP Strategy, along
with final environmental documents.
Environmental Analysis
ARB, as the lead agency for the Proposed Strategy, prepared a
Draft Environmental Analysis (EA) in accordance with the
requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
and ARB's regulatory program certified by the Secretary of
Natural Resources (California Code of Regulation, title 17,
sections 60006-60008; California Code of Regulation, title 14,
section 15251, subdivision (d)). The resource areas from the
CEQA Guidelines Environmental Checklist were used as a framework
for a programmatic environmental analysis of the reasonably
foreseeable compliance responses resulting from implementation of
the proposed measures discussed in the Proposed Strategy. The
Draft EA provides an analysis of both the beneficial and adverse
impacts and feasible mitigation measures for the reasonably
foreseeable compliance responses associated with the proposed
measures under each of the 17 environmental resource areas.
Collectively, the Draft EA concluded implementation of these
actions could result in the following short-term and long-term
beneficial and adverse impacts: beneficial long-term impacts in
reduced greenhouse gas emissions; less-than-significant impacts
to air quality, biological resources, energy demand, geology and
soils, greenhouse gases (short-term), hazards and hazardous
materials, hydrology and water quality, resources related to land
use planning, mineral resources, noise, population and housing,
public services, and recreational services; and potentially
significant and unavoidable adverse impacts to aesthetics,
agriculture and forest resources, air quality, biological
resources, cultural resources, geology and soils, hazards and
hazardous materials, hydrology and water quality, resources
related to land use planning, noise, transportation/traffic, and
utilities and service systems. The potentially significant and
unavoidable adverse impacts are primarily related to short-term
construction-related activities, which explains why some resource
areas are identified above as having both less-than-significant
impacts and potentially significant impacts. Please refer to the
Draft EA for further details.
Public Comments on the Proposed Strategy and Draft EA
The Proposed Strategy and its appendices, including the Draft EA
(Appendix C), can be obtained from ARB's short-lived climate
pollutant website at:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/shortlived/shortlived.htm. ARB invites
comments on the Proposed Strategy and Draft EA during the 45-day
public comment period that begins on April 11, 2016, and ends on
May 26, 2016. Submittal of comments on both documents should be
made to: http://www.arb.ca.gov/lispub/comm/bclist.php. The
meeting agenda, staff presentation, and any other related
materials will be distributed prior to the workshops. These
documents will be posted in advance on ARB's Short-Lived Climate
Pollutant website (see above).
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