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The
California Air Resources Board (CARB or the Board) staff invite you to
participate remotely in a public workshop to provide input on the
development of the Advanced Clean Cars II (ACC II) regulations. The ACC II
regulations will seek to reduce criteria and greenhouse gas emissions from
new light- and medium-duty vehicles beyond the 2025 model year, and
increase the number of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) for sale. During the
workshop, staff will present an overview of the ACC II regulatory proposals
on the Low-Emission Vehicle (or LEV IV) Regulation and the Zero-Emission
Vehicle (ZEV) Regulation. Staff will also present updates on minimum
technology requirements for ZEVs and proposed measures to increase access
to ZEVs for our priority communities. This workshop will also serve as a
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) scoping meeting to obtain
feedback for the environmental impact analysis.
The
virtual public workshop will be held on the following date and time.
Date:
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Time: 4:00 p.m. –
6:00 p.m.
Location: Webinar/Teleconference
The
workshop is open to the public and we encourage your participation. Please
use the link below to register for the Zoom webinar. After registering, you
will receive a confirmation email with information about how to join the
webinar by computer or by telephone.
Staff
request stakeholder comments following the workshop be submitted using the informal comment
submittal form by September 1, 2021. Comments submitted can be
viewed on the workshop
comments log webpage.
Background
In
2012, CARB adopted a set of regulations to control emissions from passenger
vehicles, collectively called Advanced Clean Cars (ACC). Advanced Clean
Cars combined the control of smog-causing (criteria) pollutants and
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions into a single coordinated package of
regulations through 2025 model year vehicles: the Low-Emission Vehicle III
regulation for criteria (LEV III Criteria) and GHG (LEV III GHG) emissions,
and a technology forcing Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Regulation.
A
California midterm review of the standards was presented to the Board in
March 2017. At that time, the Board also directed staff to begin working on
post-2025 model year vehicle regulations. Since the midterm review, staff
have continued to research additional measures to reduce air pollution from
light-duty and medium-duty vehicles. Additionally, in September 2020,
Governor Newsom signed Executive Order
N-79-20 which established a goal that 100 percent of California
sales of new passenger car and trucks be zero-emission by 2035 and directed
CARB to develop and propose regulations toward this goal. Furthermore,
CARB’s 2020 Mobile Source Strategy illustrates that an aggressive
deployment of ZEVs will be needed for the State to meet federal air quality
requirements and the State’s climate change targets.
Environmental
Analysis
At
the workshop staff will provide an overview of CARB’s process for preparing
the Environmental Analysis (EA) and its content required under the
California Environmental Quality Act. Staff welcome public input at the
workshop on the appropriate scope and content of the EA at the beginning of
our process, including the reasonably foreseeable methods of compliance
with the proposal, the potential significant adverse impacts associated
with the methods of compliance, potential feasible mitigation measures, and
feasible alternatives to the proposal that could reduce or eliminate any
significant adverse impacts. A draft of the EA will be released for public
review and comment in 2022.
Contacts
If
you have any questions regarding the workshop, please contact cleancars@arb.ca.gov. If you wish to
receive information regarding the Advanced Clean Cars II regulations,
please subscribe at the Advanced Clean Cars website.
If
you require a special accommodation or need this document in an alternate
format (i.e., Braille, large print) or another language, please contact Marissa Williams, as soon as possible.
TTY/TDD/Speech to Speech users may dial 711 for the California Relay
Service.
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