Topic 2: Fifth Annual Community Recommendations and Selection Process Meeting 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
The second portion of the workshop will include:
- Discussion of staff’s draft recommendations for the fifth annual Community Air Protection Community Selection Process
- Opportunity for workshop participants to ask questions and provide comments about the communities staff recommend to the CARB Board consider for selection in February 2023
Staff anticipates a small number of new selected communities given funding limitations.
Date: Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Time: 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location: Remote Access Only (Zoom link)
Meeting ID: 842 8621 0619
Password: 208644
Or if joining by telephone, dial: (866) 390-1828 (U.S. toll-free)
Conference code: 274661
There will be a short break in between the two topics. The virtual workshop meeting will be recorded and include English with Spanish interpretation. Meeting materials will be available before the meeting on the Community Air Protection Program webpage, and available in English and Spanish. After the workshop, the workshop recordings will be available on the Community Air Protection Blueprint webpage and Community Air Protection Program Selection Process webpage.
Questions
For questions about the Program Blueprint Revision, please contact CommunityAir@arb.ca.gov or (279) 208-7580.
For questions about the annual community recommendations and selection process, please contact Laura Z. Schmidt at (951) 542-3436 or Laura.ZSchmidt@arb.ca.gov.
Background
Assembly Bill (AB) 617 was signed into law in July 2017, and requires:
- Community-focused action to reduce air pollution
- Improvement of public health in communities that experience disproportionate burdens from exposure to air pollutants
- CARB to develop, and together with air districts:
- Implement a statewide strategy to reduce emissions of toxic air contaminants
- Reduce criteria air pollutants in communities affected by a high cumulative exposure burden
- CARB to update the statewide strategy, known as the Program Blueprint, every five years
- CARB Board to annually consider the selection of additional communities, as appropriate
2018 Program Blueprint:
- Describes the process for identifying impacted communities and convening community steering committees
- Establishes criteria for the development of community emissions reduction programs and community air monitoring plans
- Contains CARB’s commitments to statewide actions to reduce emissions of criteria air pollutants and toxic air contaminants
- A revised Program Blueprint will be considered by the CARB Board no later than September 2023
Annual Community Recommendations and Selection:
- CARB Board has selected 17 communities to date
- This is the fifth year of AB 617 community recommendations
- 16 of the selected communities are developing or implementing air monitoring plans and or emission reduction plans with one community selected for a monitoring plan
- CARB staff works with community-based organizations, air districts, and the public to develop community selection recommendations for CARB’s Board every year
- CARB Board will consider OCAP staff recommendations for community selection at the February 22, 2023 CARB Board meeting
OCAP Updates
If you would like to receive meeting notices and email updates for the Community Air Protection Program, please subscribe to the OCAP listserv.
To receive occasional updates highlighting communities in the program, please subscribe to the CARB Environmental Justice Blog.
Special Accommodations Request
Consistent with California Government Code Section 7296.2, special accommodation or language needs may be provided for any of the following:
- An interpreter to be available at the meeting
- Documents made available in an alternate format or another language
- A disability-related reasonable accommodation.
To request these special accommodations or language needs, please contact Laura Z. Schmidt (951) 542-3436 or Laura.ZSchmidt@arb.ca.gov, as soon as possible, but no later than five business days before the scheduled meeting. TTY/TDD/Speech to Speech users may dial 711 for the California Relay Service.
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