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Comment 22 for Provides the public and stakeholders opportunities to provide "informal" public comments as part of ARB's 2013 Scoping Plan Update Workshop Series (2013-sp-update-ws) - 1st Workshop.


First Name: Nicole
Last Name: Vermilion
Email Address: nvermilion@planningcenter.com
Affiliation: The Planning Center/DC&E

Subject: 2013-SP-Update-WS
Comment:
The 2013 Update to the Scoping Plan should establish interim
(Post-2020 but pre-2050)targets to address the long-term goal to
reduce GHG emissions to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. These
targets should be clearly articulated for the state as a whole (or
separate sectors) and qualitative/quantitative goals should be
identified for local governments. It may be important to
distinguish goals for established (built-out out communities) v.
growing communities (communities that will experience an increase
in sources of emissions despite federal, state, and regional GHG
emissions reductions)when considering local GHG reduction goals for
local jurisdictions. One of the most far reaching statements in the
2008 Scoping Plan for local communities was in regard for local
governments to achieve a 15% reduction by 2020. While this was
never originally intended to apply on a city-by-city (or
county-by-county) basis, but for the State as a whole, this local
goal was applied by local jurisdictions while preparing local
greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction plans and for the California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) thresholds. Discussion regarding
these type of quantitative/qualitative statements should be given
careful review in this next update because of the far reaching
consequences with regard to CEQA and significance thresholds used
in CEQA documents. Furthermore, outreach with local governments on
what types of programs are needed to further he state in achieving
the long term goal should be conducted. These types of programs
(including funding programs)should be considered in the 2013
Update. 

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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2013-08-01 09:31:34



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