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Dear ARB Staff and Interested Stakeholders:

ARB recently issued cap-and-trade draft regulations that could
potentially offer a funding source for land use/transportation
through two different mechanisms, as follows:

1)	Auctioning carbon permits.  If ARB auctions carbon permits to
regulated emitters, the revenues from the auction will be available
for climate-related programs.  Since transportation-related
emissions constitute nearly 40% of California’s emissions, why not
request that 40% of the auction funds be allocated toward land use
and transportation?  

2)	Carbon offsets.  ARB will allow regulated emitters to meet a
portion of their regulatory requirements through investment into
carbon offsets.  Why not allow a land use/transportation fund to
qualify as a carbon offset investment?   By the time ARB puts
cap-and-trade into effect in 2012, California will have a
regulatory scheme/protocol under SB375 to sufficiently prioritize
land use/transportation projects based on their climate change
benefits.         

Please consider these ideas for incoporation into ARB's final
regulations.

Thanks, Joanna Malaczynski