Invitation to Participate
The California Air Resources Board (CARB or Board) invites
you to participate in a public workshop on developing a Beneficiary Mitigation
Plan for California’s $423 million allocation of the Volkswagen (VW)
Environmental Mitigation Trust (Mitigation Trust). The workshop will be held in six locations
throughout California between February 26 and March 8, 2018. The VW Mitigation Trust is a component of a
partial settlement with VW resulting from its use of illegal defeat devices in
certain 2.0-liter and 3.0-liter model year 2009 to 2016 diesel cars sold in the
State. The Mitigation Trust is
enumerated in a Partial Consent Decree as Appendix D. Additional information is available in the
workshop notice.
All meeting materials
will be the same at all locations. The
workshop will be held at the following dates, times, and locations:
DATE: Monday, February 26, 2018
TIME: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. (PST)
LOCATION: Cal/EPA Headquarters
Coastal Hearing Room
1001 I Street
Sacramento, California 95814
DATE: Wednesday, February 28, 2018
TIME: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (PST)
LOCATION: San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control
District
1990 East Gettysburg Avenue
Fresno, California 93704
DATE: Thursday, March 1, 2018
TIME: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (PST)
LOCATION: Elihu M. Harris State Building Auditorium
1515 Clay Street
Oakland, California 94612
DATE: Monday, March 5, 2018
TIME: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. (PST)
LOCATION: Shasta County Board of Supervisors Board
Chambers
1450 Court Street, #308B
Redding, California 96001
DATE: Wednesday, March 7, 2018
TIME: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (PST)
LOCATION: South Coast Air Quality Management District
Auditorium
21865 Copley Drive
Diamond Bar, California 91765
DATE: Thursday, March 8, 20188
TIME: 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (PST)
LOCATION: Fontana City Hall
Council Chambers
8353 Sierra Avenue
Fontana, California 92335
The workshop in
Sacramento will be webcast for those unable to attend in person. The broadcast can be accessed on the day of
the Sacramento workshop, February 26, 2018.
A discussion
document outlining staff’s recommendations on project categories, funding
allocations, and project criteria for this funding will be posted prior to the
first workshop on CARB’s VW Mitigation Trust website. The discussion document will include a
workshop agenda. Staff’s presentation
will be posted on this website the morning of first workshop, February 26,
2018, in Sacramento.
Interested
members of the public may also submit comments throughout the Beneficiary
Mitigation Plan development process.
Contact
If you have questions regarding the workshops or the VW
Mitigation Trust for California, please contact Ms. Lisa Williams, Air
Pollution Specialist, at (916) 324-7582 or by email.
If you wish to receive information regarding the
VW Mitigation Tust for California in the future, please subscribe below.
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