BILL NUMBER:  AB 1527
  VETOED	DATE: 10/11/2009




To the Members of the California State Assembly:

I am returning Assembly Bill 1527 without my signature.

This bill requires the California Air Resources Board (ARB) to revise
the project guidelines for certain existing emission reduction
incentive programs to allow the receipt of other state and federal
funds to be used for projects without those additional funds being
included in the cost-effectiveness calculations that are used to
determine ARB funding eligibility.

This bill is unnecessary.  ARB already has flexibility in existing
law to develop revisions to their funding guidelines, and is
currently developing revisions to the Proposition 1B guidelines that
will allow selective use of funds from other programs to count as
matching funds for eligible projects that achieve both emission
reduction and climate change benefits.

Additionally, the current language of the bill would detrimentally
relax the cost-effectiveness calculations for ARB's existing emission
reduction incentive programs.  This results in limited state funds
for air quality improvements going towards fewer and potentially more
costly projects that do not produce the quantity of air quality
improvements we could see under the existing program.

I recognize that the author worked diligently to try to ensure that
air quality improvements would not be diminished by the bill.  I
encourage the author to work with ARB as they undergo their current
review of the Proposition 1B and Carl Moyer guidelines and, if
additional legislation is needed, introduce a bill in the next
session that achieves both ARB and the author's shared goals.

For these reasons, I am unable to sign this bill.

Sincerely,



Arnold Schwarzenegger