Thursday, September 22, 2016

arbcombo -- Notice of Public Meeting October 20, 2016

The Air Resources Board will conduct a public meeting at the time
and place noted below to consider approving modifications to the
Fiscal Year 2016-17 Funding Plan for Low Carbon Transportation
and Fuels Investments and the Air Quality Improvement Program (FY
2016 17 Funding Plan or Funding Plan).

DATE: October 20, 2016
TIME: 9:00 a.m.
LOCATION: San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control
District
1990 East Gettysburg Avenue
Fresno, California 93726

To provide your comments before the Board meeting and to view the
Notice, please go to:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/lispub/comm/bclist.php

Interested members of the public may present comments orally or
in writing at the meeting and may provide comments by postal mail
or by electronic submittal before the meeting. To be considered
by the Board, written comments not physically submitted at the
meeting, must be received no later than 5:00 p.m., October 17,
2016, and addressed to the following:

Postal mail: Clerk of the Board, Air Resources Board
1001 I Street, Sacramento, California 95814

Electronic submittal:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/lispub/comm/bclist.php

The meeting notice and addition information about the Funding
Plan may be obtained from ARB's website at:
https://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/aqip/fundplan/fundplan.htm.

Further inquiries regarding this matter should be directed to Mr.
Andrew Panson, Staff Air Pollution Specialist, at (916) 323-2809,
or Mr. Ali Koohestani, Air Resources Technician, at (916)
324-1590.

Background:
At the June 23, 2016 Board meeting, the Board approved the
proposed FY 2016 17 Funding Plan which describes how ARB would
spend $500 million in proposed Low Carbon Transportation and
Fuels funding from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and $28.6
million for Air Quality Improvement Program (AQIP). At the time
of the Board's action, the Legislature had appropriated AQIP
funds to ARB as part of the Budget Act of 2016 but had deferred
action on the $500 million in Low Carbon Transportation and Fuels
funding. Hence, the Low Carbon Transportation and Fuels elements
of the Board-approved Funding Plan were contingent on
appropriation of these funds. The Funding Plan included
contingency provisions to address this budget uncertainty
including direction that staff return with modifications to the
plan in the event that the Legislature appropriated less than
$400 million to ARB.

On August 31, 2016, the Legislature appropriated $363 million to
ARB for Low Carbon Transportation projects and provided direction
on how these funds are used. The Legislature also approved an
associated budget trailer bill which directs ARB to make a
changes to the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project. Staff is proposing
modifications to the FY 2016-17 Funding Plan to address the
smaller budget appropriation and additional direction from the
Legislature. These changes are fully described in the meeting
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

arbcombo -- ARB Research Seminar: Atmospheric Measurement and Inverse Modeling to Improve GHG Emission Estimates

Marc Fischer, PhD
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Tuesday, October 4, 2016 2:00 p.m., PDT (WEBCAST)
Sierra Hearing Room, 2nd Floor, Cal/EPA Building
1001 I Street, Sacramento, California

California has committed to an ambitious plan to reduce statewide
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 through
Assembly Bill 32 (AB-32), which requires accurate accounting of
emissions for effective mitigation planning and verification of
future emission reductions. Atmospheric GHG measurements from
networks of towers can be combined with existing knowledge of
emissions in a statistical inverse model -- weighing existing
knowledge with the new observations -- to more accurately
quantify GHG emissions. This study quantifies major anthropogenic
GHGs including fossil fuel CO2 (ffCO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous
oxide (N2O) emissions within California with a Bayesian inverse
modeling framework, using atmospheric observations from an
expanded GHG measurement network across California over multiple
years. For more go to the announcement at:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/fischer4/fischer4.htm

Main menu:
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Webcast: http://www.calepa.ca.gov/broadcast/?bdo=1

Please send your-e-mail for the Q&A participation
to: sierrarm@calepa.ca.gov

For more information please contact:
Matthias Falk at (916) 323-5774 or Matthias.Falk@arb.ca.gov

For more information on the Seminar Series please contact:
Peter Mathews at (916) 323-8711 or Peter.Mathews@arb.ca.gov

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Tuesday, September 6, 2016

arbcombo -- ARB One Stop Truck Events, sign up now to attend an event near you!

Truck owners and operators; you're invited to attend a 2016-2017
One Stop Truck event for compliance assistance and
information/resources on clean technology options for compliance.


Our next event will be in Santa Ana on September 23rd!

Visit the One Stop Truck Event Webpage for information on event
dates/locations and to sign up to attend:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/truckstop/azregs/onestop.htm

One Stop Truck Event Features:
• One-on-one compliance assistance
• Training/breakout sessions:
-Enforcement inspection demo
-Truck and bus and off-road regulation overview
-New technology options for compliance
-Funding options for on-road trucks
• Industry vendors & local agency booths
• Clean vehicle/technology displays

One Stop Diesel Truck Events 2016-2017
Flier:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/truckstop/pdfs/one_stop_flyer_allevents.pdf


Asistencia en español disponible

You may register online, by email at arbtrain@arb.ca.gov, or
contact the ARB Training Registrar at (916) 322-3937 (select
option 1).

To register as a vendor (space is available), please complete a
vendor request form next to the event you wish to attend on the
One Stop Truck Event Webpage.


Sincerely,
MyARBTraining Registrar

arbtrain@arb.ca.gov
(916) 322-3937

Option 1 Mobile Source Training
Option 2 Stationary Source Training
Option 3 Diesel Hotline



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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

arbcombo -- September 14, 2016: Public Workshop on the Transportation Sector to Inform Development of the 2030 Target Scoping Plan Update

California Energy Commission (CEC), California Office of Planning
and Research (OPR), California State Transportation Agency
(CalSTA), California Strategic Growth Council (SGC), and
California Air Resources Board (ARB) are jointly hosting a public
workshop on the Transportation sector on September 14, 2016.

This public workshop will provide an overview on the process to
update the 2030 Target Scoping Plan, and will include CEC and ARB
staff presentations on efforts that contribute to greenhouse gas
(GHG) reductions in the vehicle and fuel technology sectors.

ARB staff will also present and introduce the newly developed
Biofuel Supply Module. The Biofuel Supply Module is being
developed to aid in assessing potential low carbon fuel
availability in California as part of the Scoping Plan modeling
effort. The Biofuel Supply Module will be posted on Wednesday,
September 7.

In addition, OPR, CalSTA, SGC, and ARB staff will present on
current initiatives that contribute to reductions in vehicle
miles travelled (VMT) and GHG emissions, and a land-use vision
and potential additional transportation and development
strategies to achieve greater VMT and GHG emissions reductions in
the future. In advance of the workshop, Agencies will post a
White Paper containing initial land use protection, management,
and development ideas that will be considered and evaluated as
part of California's 2030 climate change vision and strategy for
the Transportation sector.

The Biofuel Supply Module and Land-Use White Paper will be posted
by September 7th, and the Land-Use White Paper will be posted in
advance of the workshop here:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/scopingplan/scopingplan.htm

The meeting is open to the public and full participation by all
parties is encouraged:

DATE: Wednesday, September 14, 2016
TIME: 9:00 am to 4:30 pm
PLACE: California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA)
Byron Sher Auditorium
1001 I Street
Sacramento, California 95814

Background
This Transportation sector workshop is part of the public process
to update the Scoping Plan to reflect the Governor's Executive
Order B-30-15, which established a mid-term GHG reduction target
for California of 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. All
state agencies with jurisdiction over sources of GHG emissions
were directed to implement measures to achieve reductions of GHG
emissions to meet the 2030 and 2050 targets. ARB was directed to
update the AB 32 Scoping Plan to reflect the 2030 target, and
therefore, is moving forward with the update process. The
mid-term target is critical to help frame the suite of policy
measures, regulations, planning efforts, and investments in clean
technologies and infrastructure needed to continue driving down
emissions.

This workshop will support the process to update the AB 32
Scoping Plan to reflect California's goal to reduce statewide
greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, as
directed in Executive Order B-30-15.

In an effort to further the vision of AB 32, Governor Brown
identified key climate change strategy pillars in his January
2015 inaugural address. The pillars recognize that several major
areas of the California economy will need to reduce emissions to
meet the 2030 greenhouse gas emissions target. One of the key
pillars identified by Governor Brown is to cutting petroleum use
in half by 2030.

A copy of the presentation and other workshop materials will be
available on the Scoping Plan webpage at:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/scopingplan/scopingplan.htm

Materials will be posted by September 12, 2016, at 1:00 pm.

A live webcast of the workshop will be available at:
https://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/scopingplan/meetings/meetings.htm

Remote participants will be able to submit e-mail questions
during the workshop to: 2030TargetScopingPlanUpdate@arb.ca.gov

ARB will be collecting public comments on the workshop material
at http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/scopingplan/scopingplan.htm. The
webpage to submit comments will be live beginning on September
14, 2016 at 9:00 am.

If you require a special accommodation or need this document in
an alternate format (i.e. Braille, large print) or another
language, please contact Rachel Pallatin at (916) 324-3502 or
rachel.pallatin@arb.ca.gov as soon as possible, but no later than
10 business days before the scheduled event/meeting.
TTY/TDD/Speech to Speech users may dial 711 for the California
Relay Service.


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Friday, August 26, 2016

arbcombo -- Notice of Public Availability of Modified Text - Proposed Amendments to the Small Containers Of Automotive Refrigerant Regulation

The California Air Resources Board has posted the 15-day Notice
of Public Availability of Modified Text for the Regulation for
Small Containers of Automotive Refrigerant.

The 15-day notice, proposed 15-Day Modifications, the resolution
and all other regulatory documents for this rulemaking are
available online at the following ARB website:

https://www.arb.ca.gov/regact/2016/smallcans2016/smallcans2016.htm

SUBMITTAL OF COMMENTS

The proposed 15-day modifications are open for comment until
September 12, 2016.

Written comments will only be accepted on the modifications
identified in this Notice. Comments may be submitted by postal
mail or by electronic submittal no later than 5:00 p.m. on the
due date to the following:

Postal mail: Clerk of the Board, Air Resources Board
1001 I Street, Sacramento, California 95814

Electronic submittal:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/lispub/comm/bclist.php

Inquiries concerning the substance of the proposed regulation may
be directed to Mr. Michael FitzGibbon, P.E., Chief, Climate,
Atmospheric Science and Economic Studies Branch, at (916)
323-2389 or Mr. Winston Potts (designated back-up contact), P.E.,
Air Resources Engineer, Air Quality and Climate Science Section,
(916) 323-2537.

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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

arbcombo -- Tomorrows ARB Research Seminar: Source Speciation of Central Valley GHG Emissions Using In-Situ Measurement of VOCs

Allen Goldstein, PhD
University of California, Berkeley and
Mark Fischer, PhD
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

*NEW TIME: Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 10:00 a.m., PDT
(WEBCAST)
Sierra Hearing Room, 2nd Floor, Cal/EPA Building
1001 I Street, Sacramento, California

*Presentation will be available for downloading, morning of the
seminar

Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions requires knowledge of the
sources and activities which emit GHGs. California's Central
Valley has a number of agricultural and natural sources of GHGs
in addition to urban, anthropogenic sources. This work
investigates the seasonal variability of CH₄ and N₂O
source apportionment from year-long measurements of GHGs, CO, and
a suite of VOCs in Walnut Grove, about 23 miles south of downtown
Sacramento, from summer 2012 through early fall 2013. We apply
the statistical technique of positive matrix factorization (PMF)
on the combined GHG - VOC data set over seven separate periods
that are representative of broad seasonal patterns observed in
the region. We also compare our results to inverse modeling
estimates at WGC for the same time-period. For more go to the
announcement at:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/goldstein4/goldstein4.htm


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Webcast: http://www.calepa.ca.gov/broadcast/?bdo=1

Please send your-e-mail for the Q&A participation
to: sierrarm@calepa.ca.gov

For more information on this seminar presentation please
contact:
Ash Lashgari, Ph.D. at (916) 323-1506 or
Ash.Lashgari@arb.ca.gov

For more information on the ARB Research Seminar Series please
contact:
Peter Mathews at (916) 323-8711 or Peter.Mathews@arb.ca.gov

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Tuesday, August 16, 2016

arbcombo -- August 26, 2016: Public Conference Call Meeting of the Environmental Justice Advisory Committee

The AB 32 Environmental Justice Advisory Committee (Committee)
will be meeting via conference call on August 26, 2016 from 3:00
pm to 4:00 pm (PDT). Participants may attend via conference call
or at any of the locations provided in the notice, including in
the Klamath Training Room, 2nd floor of the CalEPA Headquarters
Building, located at 1001 "I" Street in Sacramento.

The meeting notice and agenda are posted at:
www.arb.ca.gov/cc/ejac/meetings/meetings.htm

Background:
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, (AB 32)
calls for the Air Resources Board (ARB or Board) to convene a
global warming environmental justice advisory committee, to
advise the Board in developing the Scoping Plan, and any other
pertinent matter in implementing AB 32. The advisory committee is
comprised of representatives from communities in the State with
the most significant exposure to air pollution, including, but
not limited to, communities with minority populations or
low-income populations, or both.

The Board appointed the first Environmental Justice Advisory
Committee to advise it on the Initial Scoping Plan and other
climate change programs. To advise the Board on the First Update
to the Climate Change Scoping Plan, ARB reconvened a new
Committee on March 21, 2013. To replace members that either
changed positions and had to resign from the Committee or were
unable to serve, the Board appointed four new members on
September 25, 2015.

The Committee will advise the Board on the development of the
2030 Target Scoping Plan Update, per Governor Brown's Executive
Order B-30-15. Committee meetings are open to the public and
include a public comment period.

For more information please visit the Environmental Justice
Advisory Committee website at: www.arb.ca.gov/cc/ejac/ejac.htm.


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