Workshop on Targeted Amendments to the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation (9/24/2024)

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) invites you to participate in a public meeting to discuss proposed amendments to the Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) regulation that implement the requirements of Assembly Bill (AB) 1594 (Garcia, Chapter 585, Statutes of 2023). This is the second workshop on AB 1594. The meeting will be held in-person in Sacramento and via Zoom as indicated below. Remote participants must register via Zoom. This meeting will be recorded and made available on the ACF – Meetings & Workshops website.

Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (Pacific Time)
In-Person Location: California EPA Headquarters, Sierra Hearing Room, 1001 I Street, Sacramento, California
Webinar: Zoom

Registration is available online.

• The following is a summary of proposed amendments to be discussed at the workshop:
• A definition of traditional utility-specialized vehicles
• Modifying eligibility criteria for a ZEV Purchase Exemption for a new traditional utility-specialized vehicle without regard to the model year of the vehicle being replaced
• Necessary changes to the Daily Usage exemption to allow for broader usage data for traditional utility-specialized vehicles that does not exclusively rely on the lowest mileage reading and does not exclude the highest usage days
• Minor edits to the transit fleet vehicle definition and other updates or clarifications

Meeting materials will be made available in advance of the workshop on the Advanced Clean Fleets – Meetings & Events website. Draft rulemaking language will be made available and posted online prior to the meeting.

Background

In October 2023, the ACF regulation was adopted as the latest development in CARB’s decades long history of setting increasingly stringent emission standards for mobile sources that are needed to protect the public health and welfare of Californians by improving air quality and by mitigating the harms posed by greenhouse gases. The ACF regulation complements CARB’s recently adopted Advanced Clean Trucks regulation, and will help advance the introduction of zero-emission technologies into California’s truck and bus fleets requiring fleets that are well suited for electrification to reduce emissions through requirements to both phase-in the use of ZEVs for targeted fleets and requirements that manufacturers only manufacture ZEV trucks starting in the 2036 model year.

Achieving California’s long-term air quality, climate, and public health goals will require a transition from the conventional combustion technologies to zero-emission everywhere feasible and near-zero-emission powered by clean, low-carbon renewable fuels everywhere else. Promoting the development and use of zero-emission trucks will contribute to the goals set by the Governor’s Executive Order N-79-20 and the Sustainable Freight Action Plan, and will help achieve emission reductions as outlined in the State Implementation Plan, Senate Bill (SB) 350 (de León, Chapter 547, Statutes of 2015), AB 32 (Nuñez, Chapter 488, Statutes of 2006), and SB 32 (Pavley, Chapter 249, Statutes of 2016), and AB 1279. This effort is part of a broader strategy to increase clean, affordable transportation options such as zero-emission technologies, innovative methods to improve freight activity, and efficiency of transportation systems in California.

Contact

If you wish to receive information regarding the proposed amendments to the ACF regulation, please visit the Advanced Clean Fleets | California Air Resources Board and sign up to receive future updates and notices of upcoming meetings.

If you require a special accommodation or need this document in an alternate format (i.e., Braille, large print) or another language, please contact Mr. Harinder Phagura, as soon as possible. TTY/TDD/Speech to Speech users may dial 711 for the California Relay Service.