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4.4 – Energy Draft Environmental Impact Report February 2021 14800 W. Schulte Road Logistics Center 4.4-6 power motor vehicles. The Low Carbon Fuel Standard was anticipated to lead to the replacement of 20% of the fuel used in motor vehicles with alternative fuels by 2020. Senate Bill 375 SB 375 (Steinberg) (September 2008) addresses GHG emissions associated with the transportation sector through regional transportation and sustainability plans. SB 375 requires CARB to adopt regional GHG reduction targets for the automobile and light-truck sector for 2020 and 2035 and to update those targets every 8 years. SB 375 requires the state’s 18 regional metropolitan planning organizations to prepare a Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS) as part of their Regional Transportation Plans (RTPs) that will achieve the GHG reduction targets set by CARB. If a metropolitan planning organization is unable to devise an SCS to achieve the GHG reduction target, the metropolitan planning organization must prepare an Alternative Planning Strategy demonstrating how the GHG reduction target would be achieved through alternative development patterns, infrastructure, or additional transportation measures or policies. Pursuant to Government Code Section 65080(b)(2)(K), an SCS does not regulate the use of land; supersede the land use authority of cities and counties; or require that a city’s or county’s land use policies and regulations, including those in a general plan, be consistent with it. Nonetheless, SB 375 makes regional and local planning agencies responsible for developing those strategies as part of the federally required metropolitan transportation planning process and the state-mandated housing element process. In September 2010, CARB adopted the first SB 375 targets for the regional metropolitan planning organizations. The targets for the San Joaquin Council of Governments (SJCOG) were a 5% reduction in emissions per capita by 2020 and a 10% reduction by 2035 of the 2005 baseline. Achieving these goals through adoption of an SCS is the responsibility of the metropolitan planning organizations. The SJCOG Board adopted its first RTP/SCS on June 26, 2014. The plan quantified a 24.4% reduction by 2020 and a 23.7% reduction by 2035 below a 2005 baseline (SJCOG 2014). On June 28, 2018, the SJCOG Board adopted the 2018 RTP/SCS, which built on the progress made in the 2014 RTP/SCS (SJCOG 2018). Truck and Bus Regulation, On-Road Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles (In-Use) Regulation On December 12, 2008, CARB approved the Truck and Bus Regulation to significantly reduce particulate matter (PM) and oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emissions from existing diesel vehicles operating in California. Amendments to this regulation were approved by CARB on April 25, 2014. The regulation applies to nearly all diesel-fueled, dual-fueled, or alternative-diesel-fueled trucks and buses with a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 14,000 pounds that are privately or federally owned, and for privately and publicly owned school buses. The purpose of this regulation is to reduce emissions of diesel PM, NO x, and other criteria pollutants from in-use diesel-fueled vehicles. Heavier trucks and buses with a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 26,000 pounds must comply with a schedule by engine model year or owners can report to show compliance with more flexible options. Starting January 1, 2012, heavier trucks were required to meet a particular engine model year schedule. Fleets that comply with the schedule must install the best available PM filter on 1996 model year and newer engines and replace the vehicle 8 years later. Trucks with 1995 model year and older engines must be replaced starting in 2015. Replacements with a 2010 model year or newer engines meet the final requirements, but owners can also replace with used trucks that have a future compliance date on the schedule. For example, a replacement with a 2007 model year engine complies until 2023. By 2023, all trucks and buses must have 2010 model year engines, with few exceptions. No reporting is required if complying with this schedule (CARB 2014).