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The California Air Resources Board (CARB or Board) invites you to participate in a public workshop to provide input on potential changes to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program. This workshop will consist of a morning and afternoon session. In the morning, staff will present additional information on the potential credit generation opportunities that may affect carbon intensity targets, including stakeholder feedback from previous workshops. Staff will also present preliminary fuel mix and cost outputs from the California Transportation Supply (CATS) model presented at the November 2022 workshop. In the afternoon, staff will present concepts related to streamlining implementation. Staff will present concepts and take verbal feedback during both sessions of the workshop. Staff will request stakeholder feedback following the workshop through 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on March 15, 2023.
Along with the presentation, staff will release preliminary regulatory text for stakeholder feedback. The preliminary text may include some narrative of staff concepts where actual text is yet to be developed. Workshop materials will be posted to the LCFS Meetings and Workshops webpage by 9:00 a.m. on February 21, 2023, and a link to submit written feedback will be posted to the same page on the day of the workshop.
Date: February 22, 2023
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (morning session)
12:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (afternoon session)
Location: GoToWebinar
Background
CARB first adopted the LCFS regulation in 2009 and began implementation in 2011. The Board adopted amendments in 2011, readopted the regulation in 2015, and adopted amendments in 2018 and 2019. The regulation requires the reduction of the carbon intensity of California’s transportation fuels by 20 percent from 2010 levels by 2030. The regulation is one of the measures adopted by CARB, pursuant to Health and Safety Code Sections 38500-38599 (AB 32) to reduce California’s greenhouse gas emissions and advance the State’s climate goals. It is designed to help clean the air, protect the environment, and drive the development of clean, low-carbon fuels.
Environmental Analysis
At the workshop staff will provide an overview of CARB’s process for preparing the Environmental Analysis (EA) and its content required under the California Environmental Quality Act. Staff welcome public input at the workshop on the appropriate scope and content of the EA at the beginning of our process, including the reasonably foreseeable methods of compliance with the proposal, the potential significant adverse impacts associated with the methods of compliance, potential feasible mitigation measures, and feasible alternatives to the proposal that could reduce or eliminate any significant adverse impacts. A draft of the EA will be released for public review and comment later in 2023.
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