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          Date of Hearing:   August 4, 2010

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                   SB 1351 (Wright) - As Amended:  August 2, 2010 

          Policy Committee:                              Natural  
          ResourcesVote:9-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY  

          This bill requires the Air Resources Board (ARB) to make  
          available to the public certain materials related to an adopted  
          "AB 32" regulation.  Specifically, this bill:
           
          1)Requires ARB to publish any implementation schedule required  
            to comply with an AB 32 regulation at the time the regulation  
            is adopted.  

          2)Requires ARB to publish any reporting form, metric, compliance  
            tool, or training required to comply with an AB 32 regulation  
            at least 60 days before the compliance date.  

          3)Affects only regulations adopted January 1, 2011, or later.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Minor annual costs to ARB, no more than tens of thousands of  
          dollars, to publish required materials.

           COMMENTS  

           1)Rationale  .  The author claims ARB has adopted regulations  
            without publishing materials affected parties need to ensure  
            compliance.  This bill seeks to ensure that such materials, as  
            they relate to AB 32 regulations, are made available to the  
            public to facilitate compliance.

           2) Background  .  AB 32 (N??ez, Chapter 455, Statutes of 2006)  
            requires California to limit its emissions of greenhouse gases  
            (GHGs) so that, by 2020, those emissions are equal to what  








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            they were in 1990. To that end, AB 32 requires ARB to quantify  
            the state's 1990 GHG emissions and to adopt, by January 1,  
            2009, a "scoping plan" that describes the board's plan for  
            achieving the maximum technologically feasible and  
            cost-effective reductions of GHG emissions reductions by 2020.  
             In keeping with AB 32, ARB adopted its AB 32 scoping plan in  
            December of 2008.  Consistent with AB 32, the scoping plan  
            includes both direct regulatory measures, such as such as  
            efficiency and emissions standards, and "market-based  
            compliance mechanisms," meaning, in this case, a system of  
            tradable emissions credits.

           3)Support  .  The bill is supported by numerous industry groups  
            affected by AB 32 regulations.

           4)There is no registered opposition to this bill. 
           
           Analysis Prepared by  :    Jay Dickenson / APPR. / (916) 319-2081