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By @Ophelia Szigeti

On March 25 at 9:00 a.m., the California Air Resources Board (CARB) will convene an in-person and virtual workshop focusing on proposed amendments to align the Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) regulation with Assembly Bill 1594 (Garcia), Chapter 585, Statutes 2023. AB 1594 was intended to provide limited additional flexibility to public agency utilities under the ACF regulation, which mandates all local governments purchase zero emission medium-duty and heavy-duty vehicles.

Per CARB’s bulletin, the following is a summary of potential amendments to be discussed at the workshop:

• The definition of public agency utility and utility-specialized vehicles.
• Necessary changes to the Zero-Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Purchase and Daily Usage exemptions for defined public agency utilities to allow replacements without regard to the model year of the vehicle being replaced.
• Necessary changes to the Daily Usage exemption to allow for usage data that does not rely on the lowest mileage reading and exclude the highest usage days.

Stakeholders, including utility fleet owners, are encouraged to participate in the workshop and provide feedback to CARB.

The meeting will be held in Sacramento and via Zoom as indicated below. Remote participants must register via Zoom. This meeting will be recorded and made available on the ACF – Meetings & Workshops website.

Date:  March 25, 2024
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location:  California EPA Headquarters, Sacramento
                          Coastal Hearing Room
                          1001 I Street, Sacramento
                          Register for Zoom meeting if participating online

CARB has posted myriad information about the regulation at: Advanced Clean Fleets | California Air Resources Board, including:

• Reporting
• Reporting Guides
• Resources
• FAQs

Part 2 of CSDA’s New Laws of 2024 Series featured an article entitled Zero Emissions Vehicle Mandate Kicks in January 1, 2024 – Reporting Due April 1. Download CSDA New Laws of 2024 Publication and see this article authored by David Boyer, Suparna Jain, and Kevin Harris of Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo on page 10:

https://www.csda.net/viewdocument/new-laws-of-2024

For questions about CARB’s zero emissions vehicle mandate, contact CARB Advanced Clean Fleets at zevfleet@arb.ca.gov or call 866-634-3735.

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