BILL NUMBER: SCR 38	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senators Wright and Cox
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Garrick and Miller)

                        APRIL 23, 2009

   Relative to the State Air Resources Board.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 38, as introduced, Wright. Gasoline: vapor recovery systems.
   This measure would request a delay in enforcement of the State Air
Resources Board's Enhanced Vapor Recovery Phase II requirements
until October 2010.
   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, The State Air Resources Board adopted requirements,
effective April 1, 2009, requiring the installation of Enhanced Vapor
Recovery gas pumps; and
   WHEREAS, The State Air Resources Board estimates that the cost of
this new equipment is approximately eleven thousand dollars ($11,000)
per pump or seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) per gas station;
and
   WHEREAS, Funding to obtain this equipment has been scarce due to
the recession; and
   WHEREAS, The enforcement of these requirements at this time will
adversely effect the economy; and
   WHEREAS, No equipment to comply with the requirements was approved
until 2007, seven years after the regulation that created the
requirement was adopted; and
   WHEREAS, The most recent approval for the least expensive
equipment did not take place until October 2008, six months before
the enforcement deadline; and
   WHEREAS, As many as 60 percent of the gas stations in the state
have not yet installed the necessary equipment; and
   WHEREAS, Forcing non-compliant gas stations to close will cause
hardship to the owners, employees, and the communities they serve;
and
   WHEREAS, A mass closure of gas stations will cause fuel shortages
and longer lines for gas; and
   WHEREAS, Independent owners are significantly impacted by the
credit crunch; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature requests a delay in
enforcement of the State Air Resources Board's Enhanced Vapor
Recovery Phase II requirements until October 2010 to allow gas
stations sufficient time to acquire the capital or loans needed to
purchase the required equipment without additional hardship on small
businesses and their communities; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.