SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT

RULE 2008 - MOBILE SOURCE CREDITS
(Adopted October 15, 1993)

(a) Purpose

The purpose of this rule is to establish criteria for and requirements on utilizing emission reductions generated from 1600 series rules as RTCs.

(b) Requirements

(1) RTCs may be issued based on emission reductions which comply with all requirements of any 1600 series rule, except that any person may generate and receive such RTCs. RTCs may only be generated from vehicles registered in the Basin.

(2) In order to receive RTCs pursuant to Rule 1610 as specified in this rule, a minimum of 100 vehicles shall be scrapped, subsequent to the adoption of this rule.

(3) The first annual issue date of RTCs shall be the scheduled RTC issue date immediately following the date on which the reductions were deemed eligible for use pursuant to Regulation XVI - Mobile Source Offset Programs, or the current compliance year, if requested. Zone 1 shall be the zone of origination for all RTCs obtained pursuant to this rule.

(c) Limitations

The Executive Officer will approve plans for scrapping vehicles pursuant to Regulation XVI, for no more than 30,000 vehicles per year.