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The California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) invite you to participate in a series of three virtual public webinars to present the draft version of the state’s Priority Climate Action Plan, developed for the U.S. EPA’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) Program.
The webinars are divided by region:
Central Valley/San Joaquin
Date: January 31, 2024
Time: 3-5 pm
Location: Remote via Zoom
Southern California
Date: February 1, 2024
Time: 9:30-11:30 am
Location: Remote via Zoom
Northern California
Date: February 1, 2024
Time: 3-5 pm
Location: Remote via Zoom
The webinars may include presentations from metropolitan areas within each region (known as Metropolitan Statistical Areas or MSAs) that are also developing their own Priority Climate Action Plans for submission to EPA.
Following the webinars stakeholders and interested members of the public are invited to send in their comments on the state’s Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP) by February 12, 2024. The state’s plan will be finalized and submitted to EPA by March 1, 2024.
All interested stakeholders and members of the public are invited to register for any or all of the three webinars. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about how to join each webinar by computer or telephone.
The webinars will be recorded, and a link to the recording will be made available and posted on the State’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Program webpage.
Background
Created under the Inflation Reduction Act, U.S. EPA’s CPRG Program offered States, large metropolitan areas, and Tribal Nations non-competitive funding to create climate plans, the first of which is due on March 1, 2024. The climate actions listed in the first plan will be eligible to compete for $4.6 Billion in federal funding under the second phase of the CPRG Program, due April 1, 2024. The CPRG program will then require additional plans and follow-up in subsequent years.
Over the past seven months multiple state agencies, MSAs, and other jurisdictions (including several California Tribal Nations) have engaged in coordinated consultations and discussions on the scope and range of priorities and actions to include in the state’s PCAP. These discussions were based on the CPRG workplan, information from EPA about how competitive projects will be scored, and local and other considerations about how to maximize greenhouse gas reductions, improve air quality and deliver equity-related benefits.
Agendas and staff presentations for the webinars will be posted on California’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Program webpage.
Contact
If you have any questions about the webinars, please contact Stanley Young or ca.cprg@arb.ca.gov. A Spanish language option will be available for these webinars. If you require a special accommodation or another language, please email Stanley Young as soon as possible. TTY/TDD/Speech to Speech users may dial 711 for the California Relay Service.
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