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Dear CARB Board Member:

Thank you for your consideration of my following comments to
implement the Global Warming Solutions Act. 
    
   -         Offsets are a critical component of the Plan.   The
immediate reduction of CO2 will provide global benefits.  Limiting
offsets could delay emissions reductions by limiting the incentive
for innovation in the marketplace. 
   -         Local government targets should be respectful of
differences in land use patterns and transit opportunities
throughout the State.  Performance based targets provide local
governments the flexibility to engage the private sector and new
development in entrepreneurial solutions to achieve the reductions
defined by AB 32.
   -          Require all existing residences and businesses to
recycle.  This will leverage the efforts made by new development
with efforts from existing development built prior to current
recycling and energy efficiency codes.

Only by all Californians sharing the responsibility of reducing
green house gas emissions and setting an example for the nation and
the world will our State-wide efforts truly result in global
benefit.

Thanks again for your work on behalf of clean air for California.

Stephen M. Haase, AICP