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Comments on AB 617 4TH year selections.

Congratulations on another year of AB 617, and associated funding.
I'm sure the Board Hearing will be filled with praise for CARB's
Success!  

However, you should know that CARB is potentially incentivizing a
Sewage to Power plant directly across the street from South
Sacramento's AB 617 community boundaries.  The community was not
made aware of this, and it's CEQA exempt, despite trenching, and
significant construction work there, so info is hard to get.  Do
you envision a scenario where they don't get LCFS or Cap & Trade
credits? This is the same location as a Title V facility that
managed to escape AB 617 scrutiny, because the boundaries stopped
across the street from it.  The air district fought for that. 
 
The gentleman in the attached picture lives directly across, the
railroad tracks, from the AB 617 boundaries. The boundaries stop
about 150 feet short of his house.  His house is, arguably, wracked
by more pollution than 95% of the AB 617 area.  He never heard of
AB 617, or the sewage to power plant. No one in his neighborhood
that I spoke with (about 15 people) heard about either. He said he
has asthma, as do many around him. It's hard to get information
outside of what the news reports. 

Arguably, the communities surrounding the AB 617 boundaries are
considerably more disadvantaged than the community within them.

Your Board includes many folks who also serve on Air District
Boards, and as politicians tasked with bringing business to their
community.  That's part of the problem. As a Board paralyzed by the
moderates' desire for a peace based on a lack tension, as described
Dr. King, the rest of the Board will punt to a Board member if it's
their area.  Is that how justice works, or fiefdoms?

The South Sacramento Steering Community has still not taken the
tour of permitted facilities.  They took a tour that purposefully
avoided them. 

So, as you celebrate another year of success, know that the
injustices inflicted on South Sacramento in the name of AB 617,
have been swept under the rug.  And every praise for future
communities while the injustice continues South Sacramento,
tarnishes that praise.  And it makes the injustice against the most
vulnerable that were left behind, even worse. 

Albert Einstein once said, "It is better to be of value to society,
than to be a success."