Section 44101 Of Article 10. Accelerated Light-duty Vehicle Retirement Program From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 26. >> Part 5. >> Chapter 5. >> Article 10.
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. Not later than December 31, 1998, the state board shall
adopt, by regulation, a statewide program to commence in 1999 that
does all of the following:
(a) Provides for the creation, exchange, use, and retirement of
light-duty vehicle mobile source emission reduction credits. The
credits shall be fungible and exchangeable in the marketplace, and
shall reflect the actual emissions of the vehicles that are retired
or otherwise disposed of, by measurement, appropriate sampling, or
correlations developed from appropriate sampling. The numerical value
of credits may be constant over a defined lifetime, or may decline
with age measured from the time of origination of the credits. In all
cases, the numerical value of the credits shall reflect the useful
life expectancies and the projected in-use emissions of the retired
vehicles in a manner consistent with the assumptions used in
determining the emissions inventory. The credits shall be fully
recognized by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the
state board, and the districts.
(b) Sets out the criteria for retiring or otherwise disposing of
high-emitting vehicles purchased for this program.
(c) Authorizes the issuance of those credits to private entities
that purchase and properly retire high-emitting vehicles.
(d) Authorizes the resale of those credits to public or private
entities to be used to achieve the emission reduction requirements of
the 1994 state implementation plan, meet the requirements of the
inspection and maintenance program, satisfy compliance with other
emission reduction mandates, as determined by the district or the
state board, create local growth allowances, or satisfy new or
modified source emission offset requirements. Nothing in this article
limits a district's authority to apply emission discount factors
pursuant to district rules that regulate emissions banks, trades, or
offsets.
(e) Provides for the retirement of those credits when used.
(f) Includes accounting procedures to credit emissions reductions
achieved through vehicle scrappage to the M-1 strategy of the 1994
SIP and the inspection and maintenance program.
(g) Contains a program plan pursuant to Section 44104.5.
(h) Satisfies the attributes described in subdivision (e) of
Section 44100.