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The date of the ARB Scoping Plan Scenarios Workshop has been
changed to Monday, May 5, 2008 and will be held from 9am - 5pm
in the Byron Sher Auditorium at the CalEPA Building in
Sacramento. Previously the workshop had been scheduled for
Thursday, April 17. An abstract of the meeting is included
below. 

The AB 32 Program Design Technical Stakeholder Work Group meets
next Friday, April 4, in the morning from 9 am - 12:30 pm in the
Sierra Hearing Room at the CalEPA Building in Sacramento. The
specific focus of this meeting will be to consider, in greater
detail, how the core measures will be incorporated into the
models. The meeting will also include some discussion of how the
different policy scenarios will be modeled. The announcement for
this meeting is posted at:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/scopingplan/pgmdesign-sp/meetings/040408/AB32_Draft_April_4_Program_Design_Announcement.pdf

The AB 32 Economic Analysis Technical Stakeholder Work Group
meets next Friday, April 4, in the afternoon from 1:30 pm - 3:30
pm in the Sierra Hearing Room at the CalEPA Building in
Sacramento. The specific focus of this meeting will be to
examine issues associated with the economic modeling of an
“offset” program. The discussion will build on the topics raised
in the program design stakeholder meeting focused on offsets
which will immediately precede this economic analysis meeting.
The announcement for this meeting is posted at:  
http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/scopingplan/economics-sp/meetings/040408/ab32_draft_april_4_economic_analysis_announcement.pdf


The ARB Scoping Plan Scenarios Workshop has been scheduled for
Monday, May 5, 2008 and will be held from 9am - 5pm in the Byron
Sher Auditorium at the CalEPA Building in Sacramento. ARB has
developed a comprehensive scenario approach, combining both
economic and non-economic analysis, which will be presented at
this workshop. The policy scenarios being evaluated include
various mixes of available policy tools—such as direct
regulations and market-based mechanisms. These scenarios will be
compared to assess the consequences of various approaches that
may be employed to achieve the required greenhouse gas
reductions. The staff will present different combinations of
potential emission reduction measures and discuss preliminary
analysis of the scenarios. The announcement for this meeting is
posted at:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/scopingplan/meetings/5_05notice/may_5,_2008_workshop_notice.pdf

All meetings of these work groups are open to the public. There
is also now a full schedule of meeting dates available at:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/scopingplan/economics-sp/meetings/2008_Meeting_Schedule.pdf

All three meetings will be webcast, and web attendees can email
questions during the session to ccplan@arb.ca.gov.  We do not
guarantee that these webcasts will be archived.  Webcast links
are posted at http://www.calepa.ca.gov/broadcast/?BDO=1 ARB
recommends that you do not run other programs while viewing the
webcast, as it may interrupt or lower the quality of the
signal.

Written questions and comments on either subject can be
submitted by April 16, 2008, to ccplan@arb.ca.gov, though
comments received later will still be considered. We do yet not
have a comment submissions deadline for the May 5, 2008
Workshop. At the March 17, 2008, program design stakeholder
meeting, stakeholders were encouraged to submit comments related
to the scope issues discussed February 29 and the allocations
issues discussed on March 17 by this Friday, March 28. Several
stakeholders have requested additional time, so ARB encourages
parties to submit those comments no later than April 2. All
comments received related to these stakeholder meetings will be
posted to the relevant webpage.


 

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