Enacts the Lower Emissions Equipment at Seaports and Intermodal Yards Program.

This bill would, until January 1, 2032, enact the Lower Emissions Equipment at Seaports and Intermodal Yards Program. The program would be administered by the state board and would require the state board to approve as covered equipment applicable cargo handling equipment that will reduce cumulative emissions at seaports and intermodal yards in the state. The bill would require a covered equipment application to be approved by the state board if the applicant demonstrates that the total surplus emissions from covered equipment are lower cumulative emissions than the emissions resulting from compliance with the current applicable cargo handling equipment statute, regulation, or rule, as determined by the state board pursuant to the methodology established by the bill, or that the covered equipment meets the standards and definitions for zero emissions set forth under a specified European Union regulation. The bill would require the state board to certify cargo handling equipment as covered equipment if the applicant seller, reseller, distributor, or manufacturer of the cargo handling equipment demonstrates to the state board that the equipment satisfies specified criteria. The bill would require the state board to establish an application fee, as specified, and would require the application fees to be deposited in the Air Pollution Control Fund and made available to the state board upon appropriation by the Legislature. The bill would require a covered equipment application to be provided to the state board for a project approval before December 31, 2025. The bill would establish eligibility criteria for projects. The bill would require the state board, by January 1, 2027, and January 1, 2031, to evaluate the impact of the program on state and local clean air efforts to meet state and local clean air goals and to hold at least one public workshop before completing the evaluation.

Pending Committee action.

02/15/2024 Read first time In Assembly.
03/21/2024 Referred to Assembly Committees on Transportation and Natural Resources.
03/21/2024 From committee with amendments. Amended, and re-referred to Assembly Committee on Transportation. Read second time and amended.
04/01/2024 Re-referred to Assembly Committee on Transportation.
04/08/2024 Amended and re-referred to Assembly Committee on Transportation. Read second time and amended.
04/09/2024 Re-referred to Assembly Committee on Transportation.
04/16/2024 From committee with recommendation for passage. Re-referred to Assembly Committee on Natural Resources with recommendation. Re-referred to Assembly Committee on Natural Resources.
04/23/2024 From committee: Amended, and do pass as amended. Re-referred to Committee on Appropriations with recommendations. To Consent Calendar.
04/24/2024 Read second time in Assembly and amended.
04/25/2024 Re-referred to Assembly Committee on Appropriations.