Low Carbon Fuel Standard Regulation

This page last reviewed November 20, 2015

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER A LOW CARBON FUEL STANDARD

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Public Comments Received

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FINAL APPROVAL / OAL ACTION

OAL approved the rulemaking and filed it with the Secretary of State on November 16, 2015. The effective date is January 1, 2016.

• Endorsed Form 400 (PDF - 1.05MB)
• Final Regulation Order (PDF - 922K)
• Addendum to FSOR (PDF - 31K)

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ADOPTED REGULATIONS AND MATERIALS SUBMITTED TO OAL

The Final Rulemaking Package was filed with OAL on October 2, 2015.  OAL has until November 16, 2015 to make a determination.

• Final Regulation Order  ~see revised above~

• Final Statement of Reasons (PDF - 236924K)

• Updated Informative Digest (PDF - 137K)

• Notice of Decision (PDF - 502K)

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SECOND HEARING ACTION

Posted October 5, 2015

Resolution 15-36 (PDF - 679KB)
                    Attachment D ~ Findings and Statement of Overriding Considerations (PDF - 97K)

Resolution 15-51 (PDF - 689KB)

SECOND PUBLIC HEARING MATERIALS

Posted September 25, 2015

Supplemental Responses to Comments on the Low Carbon Fuel Standard Regulation (PDF - 102K)
Supplement to the Responses to Comments on the Environmental Analysis (PDF - 56K)

Posted September 24, 2015

Responses to Comments on the Low Carbon Fuel Standard Regulation (PDF - 221MB)

Posted September 21, 2015

The LCFS regulation proposed text, incorporating all 15-day changes (PDF - 877K)
Final Environmental Analysis (EA) (PDF - 1576K)
Response to Comments on the EA (PDF - 50809K)

HEARING ACTION AND SUPPLEMENTAL 15-DAY NOTICES

Posted July 31, 2015

Third Notice of Public Availability of Modified Text and Availability of Additional Documents (PDF - 25K)
Deadline for Public Comment: August 17, 2015
                Attachment A ~ Third 15-Day Modified Regulation Order  (PDF - 649K)

Posted June 23, 2015

Second Notice of Public Availability of Modified Text  (PDF - 25K)
Deadline for Public Comment: July 8, 2015
                Attachment A ~ Second 15-Day Modified Regulation Order  (PDF - 649K)

Posted June 4, 2015

Notice of Public Availability of Modified Text and Availability of Additional Documents (PDF - 6.5MB)

Deadline for Public Comment: June 19, 2015
                Attachment A ~ Modified Regulation Order  (PDF - 772K)

Posted April 24, 2015

Resolution 15-6 (PDF - 509KB)

Attachment A:  Staff's Suggested Modifications to the Original Proposal (PDF - 14KB)

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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE AND RELATED MATERIAL

Posted December 30, 2014 

 ***Please note:  These documents were replaced with corrected versions on December 31, 2014 at 9:30 a.m.

Notice of Public Hearing (PDF - 1.66MK)

Deadline to Submit Public Comments: February 17, 2015, at 5:00 p.m. or at the Public Hearing on February 19, 2015.

Staff Report: Initial Statement of Reasons (ISOR)*** (PDF - 1.71M)

• Appendix A***: Proposed Regulation Order (PDF - 843K)
• Appendix B:  Development of Illustrative Compliance Scenarios and Evaluation of Potential Compliance Curves (PDF - 326K)
• Appendix C:  Comparison of CA-GREET 1.8B, GREET1 2013, and CA-GREET 2.0 (PDF - 311K)
• Appendix D:  Draft Environmental Analysis (PDF - 936K)
• Appendix E***:  Summary of DOF Comments to the Combined LCFS/ADF SRIA and ARB Responses, Includes Combined LCFS/ADF SRIA (PDF - 161K)
• Appendix F: Inputs and Outputs of the REMI Modeling (PDF - 40K)
• Appendix G:  Default Credit Calculation for Innovative Crude Production Methods (PDF - 48K)
• Appendix H:  Estimating Carbon Intensity Values for the Crude Lookup Table (PDF - 74K)
• Appendix I***:  Detailed Analysis for Indirect Land Use Change (PDF - 1.42M)

INFORMAL REGULATORY ACTIVITY

Rulemaking Activity for 2015