Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation: appeals advisory committee: exemptions.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill does not provide specific dates for establishing the Appeals Advisory Committee or detailed operational procedures.

Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation Appeals Advisory Committee and Exemptions

This legislation requires the State Air Resources Board to establish an appeals committee for reviewing exemptions under the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation, expands certain exemptions for emergency vehicles, and modifies requirements for state and local government fleets.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the State Air Resources Board to create an Appeals Advisory Committee to review denied exemption requests from the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation.
• Specifies that the committee must include representatives of various governmental and nongovernmental entities.
• Mandates monthly meetings for the committee, with recordings available online on the state board’s website.
• Sets a 60-day timeline for the committee to consider appeals and make recommendations.
• Expands exemptions for emergency vehicles under the regulation.
• Modifies requirements for state and local government fleets regarding daily usage exemptions.

Who It Names or Affects

• State Air Resources Board
• Entities subject to the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation
• Representatives from governmental and nongovernmental entities

Terms To Know

Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation

A regulation that requires fleets of medium- and heavy-duty trucks, including government vehicles, to transition to zero-emission vehicles.

Appeals Advisory Committee

A committee established by the State Air Resources Board to review appeals for exemptions from the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify a date for establishing the Appeals Advisory Committee.
• Details about how the committee will operate are left unspecified in the summary text.

Official Summary Text

SB 496, as amended, Hurtado.
Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation: appeals advisory committee: exemptions.
Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt and implement motor vehicle emission standards, in-use performance standards, and motor vehicle fuel specifications for the control of air contaminants and sources of air pollution that the state board has found necessary, cost effective, and technologically feasible. The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the state board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases and requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions from those sources.
Pursuant to its authority, the state board has adopted the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation, which imposes various requirements for transitioning local, state, and
federal government fleets of medium- and heavy-duty trucks, other high-priority fleets of medium- and heavy-duty trucks, and drayage trucks to zero-emission vehicles. The Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation authorizes entities subject to the regulation to apply for exemptions from its requirements under certain circumstances.
This bill would require the state board to establish the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation Appeals Advisory Committee by an unspecified date for purposes of reviewing appeals of denied requests for exemptions from the requirements of the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation. The bill would require the committee to include representatives of specified governmental and nongovernmental entities. The bill would require the committee to meet monthly and would require recordings of its meetings to be made publicly available on the state board’s internet website. The bill would require the committee to consider, and make a recommendation on, an appeal of an
exemption request denial no later than 60 days after the appeal is made. The bill would require specified information relating to the committee’s consideration of an appeal to be made publicly available on the state board’s internet website. The bill would require the state board to consider a recommendation of the committee at a public meeting no later than 60 days after the recommendation is made.
This bill would
expand the emergency vehicle exemption under
exempt from
the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation or
any
similar
regulation, as specified. The bill, with respect to requirements applicable to state and local government fleets under the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation, would modify the requirements of the daily usage exemption and
regulation vehicles reasonably anticipated to respond to emergency situations, or that support those efforts. The bill
would prohibit the state board from requiring
the
a state or local government
fleet owner to provide documentation showing
the
an
executed zero-emissions vehicle purchase agreement in order to
qualify for a specified extension to comply with certain requirements of the regulation.
count an internal combustion
engine vehicle as a zero-emissions vehicle purchase for purposes of postponing a zero-emissions vehicle transition mandate in the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation.

Current Bill Text

Download Bill PDF