AB 32 Administrative Fee Regulation - Public Workshop Announced
On January 27, 2009, the California Air Resources Board (“CARB”) will hold a public workshop concerning the AB 32 Administrative Fee Regulation. CARB has invited all stakeholders to provide input into the development of a fee structure that will support the administration of programs pursuant to AB 32, California’s landmark global warming legislation.
In 2006, Governor Schwarzenegger signed Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32), the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Nunez, Chapter 488, Statues of 2006). Under AB 32, California must reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. CARB’s regulatory roadmap for implementing AB 32 is outlined in the recently adopted AB 32 Climate Change Scoping Plan (described here). AB 32 authorizes CARB, by regulation based on Health and Safety Code §38597, to adopt a schedule of fees to be paid by sources of greenhouse gas emissions to support the administrative costs of implementing AB 32. CARB has initiated a rulemaking for this fee, with the intent of bringing a proposed regulation to the CARB Board for consideration in May 2009. The details of the public workshop are provided below:
Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Location: Cal/EPA Headquarters Building
Coastal Hearing Room, 2nd Floor
1001 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
The agenda and staff presentation for the workshop will be posted at least five days prior to the workshop on CARB’s website: http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/adminfee/adminfee.htm
The workshop will be available by webcast at: http://www.calepa.ca.gov/broadcast/?BDO=1
Questions and comments during the workshop can be submitted to ccworkshops@arb.ca.gov.
For further information, please contact Olivier F. Theard at (213) 617-5427 or Bram Hanono at (858) 720-7461.
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