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The Air Resources Board (ARB or Board) staff invite you to
participate in a public workshop to discuss and provide input on
the Preliminary Draft Staff Report on the SB 375 Greenhouse Gas
Emissions Reduction Target Update Process. The workshop will be
held in three locations, as indicated below.  All workshops will
follow the same format and presentation, focusing on issues that
should be considered before the Board updates the regional
passenger vehicle greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for
the State Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO).  The
workshops are intended to solicit input from stakeholders and
Metropolitan Planning Organizations prior to the October 2014
Board meeting on this topic.

Fresno workshop:  September 9, 2014
Diamond Bar workshop:  September 11, 2014
Sacramento workshop:  September 17, 2014 (webcast)

For more information on these workshops, see the detailed
workshop notice at:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/sb375/meetings/target_update_workshop_notice.pdf


For more information on other SB 375 activities, please visit the
SB 375 website at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/sb375/sb375.htm

If you would like to receive notices of future meetings and the
availability of materials, please sign up for our list serve at: 
http://www.arb.ca.gov/listserv/listserv_ind.php?listname=sb375

Accommodation
If you require special accommodation, or need this document in an
alternate format (i.e. Braille, large print) or another language,
please contact Ms. Jennifer Gray, Air Pollution Specialist at
(916) 327-0027 or Jennifer.Gray@arb.ca.gov as soon as possible,
but no later than 10 business days before the scheduled meeting. 
TTY/TDD/Speech to Speech users may dial 711 for the California
Relay Service.


Background
Senate Bill 375 (SB 375), the Sustainable Communities and Climate
Protection Act of 2008, requires each MPO to add a Sustainable
Communities Strategy (SCS) to its Regional Transportation Plan.
The SCS is designed to better integrate land use and
transportation policies to meet long term sustainability goals. 
To help guide these regional planning efforts, ARB is required to
establish regional greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for
2020 and 2035.  Initial targets for the MPO regions were
established in 2010.

ARB is required to update the targets at least every eight years,
and may revise them every four years. In January 2014, the Board
directed ARB staff to conduct additional public outreach with
stakeholders on a methodology for updating the targets, and
return to the Board in October 2014 for a discussion about the
process for updating the targets.  In August 2014, ARB staff
released a preliminary draft staff report that identifies
numerous policy and technical considerations for a future target
update.  Public workshops are scheduled for September 2014 to
discuss the preliminary draft staff report and seek additional
public input on a future target update.



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