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Ms Nichols:
Please notice how important the following three issues are to
California's future and to our groundbreaking efforts to fight
global warming:
1. We need a well-designed cap-and-trade program.Cap-and-trade
puts an absolute limit on pollution from some of California's
largest sources and guarantees the environmental results we need.
CARB should include as many sources as possible in a cap-and-trade
system. 
     We support CARB's preliminary thinking that 80% of
California's global warming pollution would be under a
cap-and-trade system by 2020.
2. We need an "Indirect Source Rule" (ISR) to control emissions
from development projects. What is an ISR? Developers measure
indirect (mostly vehicle and energy use) pollution from
construction and operation of projects and ensure that equivalent
reductions occur so the project's impacts are limited.     CARB
should require California's local air districts to develop ISRs to
control emissions from new developments.
3. We need a new Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) to increase
clean energy in our state. An RPS is a requirement that a
percentage of all energy sold in California be generated from
renewable sources (solar, wind, biomass, etc). California's
current RPS target is 10% by 2010.     We support CARB's
preliminary recommendation that the state immediately adopt a 33%
RPS by 2020.
    Sincerely, Jamie Hollomon, a concerned California
                who represents many others who agree