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PUBLIC MEETING AGENDA July 23, 2009 |
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July 23, 2009
9:00 a.m.
Agenda Item # |
Agenda Topic |
09-7-2: | Public
Meeting to Discuss the Climate Science Update (Overview of Haagen-Smit) |
Staff will provide an overview of the 2009 Haagen-Smit Symposium entitled “Addressing the Missing Piece of California’s Carbon Footprint: Non-Kyoto Pollutants, International Transport, and the Carbon Embedded in Imports.” The symposium brought together policy-makers and researchers from California, the United States, and the international community to address that fraction of California’s climate-forcing emissions that are not currently addressed by current mitigation programs. | |
More Information Staff Presentation | |
09-7-4: | Public Meeting to Update the Board on CalNex 2010 and Other Major Field Studies in California in 2010 |
ARB and
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration staff will update
the Board on CalNex 2010, a major air quality and climate science field
study, as well as other studies, which will take place in California in
2010. |
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More Information Staff Presentation | |
09-7-7: | Public Hearing to Consider
Proposed Amendments to the Regulation for In-Use Off-Road Diesel-Fueled
Fleets |
Staff
will propose amendments to implement changes to the regulation for
in-use off-road diesel vehicles (off-road regulation). As
part of the February 2009 State budget, Assembly Bill 8 2X, the ARB was
directed to make several changes to the off-road regulation that will
lessen its requirements for many large fleets in 2010 through
2012. Staff will also propose amendments to mitigate the
potential loss in emission benefits resulting from these changes and
propose amendments to clarify and correct minor inconsistencies in the
regulation’s exemption provisions. The off-road regulation
was adopted by the Board on July 26, 2007. |
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More Information Staff Presentation | |
09-7-6: | Public Meeting to Consider a Status Report on the Zero-Emission Bus Regulation |
The
staff presentation will report on the delays in Z-Bus demonstrations,
continued higher costs for Z-Buses as well as commercial readiness of fuel cell
technology used in Z-Buses. Given the remaining challenges identified in staff’s report,
recommendations will also be made regarding possible amendments to the Z-Bus regulation.
Staff will lay out suggestions for delay of the Z-Bus purchase
requirement, the way the purchase requirement would be implemented and
the role that transit buses may play in greenhouse gas emission
reduction strategies. Staff will look to the Board for
discussion and direction on a future rulemaking to amend the Z-Bus
regulation. |
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More Information Staff Presentation | |
CLOSED SESSION - LITIGATION | |
The
Board will hold a closed session, as authorized by Government Code
section 11126(e), to confer with, and receive advice from, its legal
counsel regarding the following pending litigation: Central Valley Chrysler-Jeep, Inc. et al. v. Goldstene, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, No. 08-17378 on appeal from U.S. District Court (E.D. Cal. - Fresno). Fresno Dodge, Inc. et al. v. California Air Resources Board et al., Superior Court of California (Fresno County), Case No. 04CE CG03498. General Motors Corp. et al. v. California Air Resources Board et al., Superior Court of California (Fresno County), Case No. 05CE CG02787. State of California by and through Arnold Schwarzenegger, the California Air Resources Board, and the Attorney General v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Stephen L. Johnson, Administrator, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, Case No. 08-1178. California Business Properties Association, et al. v. California Air Resources Board, et al., Superior Court of California (Sacramento), Case No. 34-2009-80000232. Green Mountain Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge-Jeep, et al. v. Crombie, 508 F.Supp.2d 295, U.S. District Court Vermont (2007), appeal to U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, Nos. 07-4342-cv(L) and 07-4360-cv(CON). Pacific Merchant Shipping Association v. Goldstene, U.S. District Court, EDCA, Case No. 2:09-CV-01151-MCE-EFB. American Trucking Association, et al. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, et al., U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, Case No. 09-1090. |
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