2019-090 - Adopting the Mitigated Negative Declaration

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*:/ : 11-1 h WA California's climate strategy will require contributions from all sectors of the economy, including enhanced focus on zero- and near -zero emission (ZE/NZE) vehicle technologies; continued investment in renewables, such as solar roofs, wind, and other types of distributed generation; greater use of low carbon fuels; integrated land conservation and development strategies; coordinated efforts to reduce emissions of short- lived climate pollutants (methane, black carbon, and fluorinated gases); and an increased focus on integrated land use planning, to support livable, transit -connected communities and conservation of agricultural and other lands. Requirements for GHG reductions at stationary sources complement local air pollution control efforts by the local air districts to tighten criteria air pollutants and TACs emissions limits on a broad spectrum of industrial sources. Major elements of the 2017 Scoping Plan framework include: • Implementing and/or increasing the standards of the Mobile Source Strategy, which include increasing ZEV buses and trucks; • Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), with an increased stringency (18 percent by 2030). • Implementation of SB 350, which expands the Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) to 50 percent RPS and doubles energy efficiency savings by 2030. • California Sustainable Freight Action Plan, which improves freight system efficiency, utilizes near zero emissions technology, and deployment of ZEV trucks. • Implementing the proposed ShortLivedClimate Pollutant Strategy (SLPS), which focuses on reducing methane and hydroflurocarbon emissions by 40 percent and anthropogenic black carbon emissions by 50 percent by year 2030. • Post-2020 Cap -and -Trade Program that includes declining caps. • Continued implementation of SB 375. • Development of a Natural and Working Lands Action Plan to secure California's land base as a net carbon sink In addition to the statewide strategies listed above, the 2017 Climate Change Scoping Plan also identified local governments as essential partners in achieving the State's long-term GHG reduction goals and identified local actions to reduce GHG emissions. As part of the recommended actions, CARB recommends statewide targets of no more than 6 MTCOze or less per capita by 2030 and 2 MTCOze or less per capita by 2050. CARB recommends that local governments evaluate and adopt robust and quantitative locallyappropriate goals that align with the statewide per capita targets and the State's sustainable development objectives and develop plans to achieve the local goals. The statewide per capita goals were developed by applying the percent reductions necessary to reach the 2030 and 2050 climate goals (i.e., 40 percent and 80 percent, respectively) to the State's 1990 emissions limit established under AB 32. For CEQA projects, CARB states that lead agencies have discretion to develop evidenced based numeric thresholds (mass emissions, per capita, or per service population —consistent with the Scoping Plan and the states long-term GHG goals. To the 75C-160