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4.5 – Greenhouse Gas Emissions Draft Environmental Impact Report February 2021 14800 W. Schulte Road Logistics Center 4.5-41 Table 4.5-6. Consistency with County of San Joaquin’s 2035 General Plan Policies General Plan Policies Project Consistency NCR-5.14: Natural Daylighting in Commercial Operations. The County shall encourage commercial and employment operations to incorporate natural daylighting by the use of windows and skylights to reduce energy demand for lighting. Consistent. The Project buildings would be designed to achieve a minimum LEED certified goal identified by the LEED Green Building Rating System to conserve resources, including energy and renewable resources, as detailed in PDF-AQ/GHG-1. Furthermore, as implemented by PDF-AQ/GHG-2, the Project would install 2%–3% skylights in warehouse buildings for natural lighting and to reduce electricity consumption from warehouse lighting. Source: County of San Joaquin 2016. Notes: County = County of San Joaquin; EV = electric vehicle; GHG = greenhouse gas; LEED = Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. As discussed in Table 4.5-6, the Project would be consistent with the County’s General Plan Policies. Project Consistency with CARB’s Scoping Plan The Scoping Plan, approved by CARB in 2008 and updated in 2014 and 2017, provides a framework for actions to reduce California’s GHG emissions and requires CARB and other state agencies to adopt regulations and other initiatives to reduce GHGs. As such, the Scoping Plan is not directly applicable to specific projects, nor is it intended to be used for project-level evaluations.7 Under the Scoping Plan, however, there are several state regulatory measures aimed at the identification and reduction of GHG emissions. CARB and other state agencies have adopted many of the measures identified in the Scoping Plan. Most of these measures focus on area source emissions (e.g., energy usage, high-GWP GHGs in consumer products) and changes to the vehicle fleet (i.e., hybrid, electric, and more fuel-efficient vehicles) and associated fuels (e.g., low-carbon fuel standard), among others. The Project would comply with all applicable regulations adopted in furtherance of the Scoping Plan to the extent required by law. The Scoping Plan recommends strategies for implementation at the statewide level to meet the goals of AB 32 and establishes an overall framework for the measures that will be adopted to reduce California’s GHG emissions. Table 4.5-7 highlights measures that have been developed under the 2030 Scoping Plan and the Project’s consistency with those measures. Table 4.5-7 also includes measures recommended in the 2030 Scoping Plan. To the extent that these regulations are applicable to the Project, its inhabitants, or uses, the Project would comply with all applicable regulations adopted in furtherance of the Scoping Plan. Table 4.5-7. Project Consistency with 2030 Scoping Plan GHG Emission-Reduction Strategies Scoping Plan Measure Measure Number Project Consistency Transportation Sector Advanced Clean Cars T-1 Consistent. The Project’s employees would purchase vehicles in compliance with CARB vehicle standards that are in effect at the time of vehicle purchase. 7 The Final Statement of Reasons for the amendments to the State CEQA Guidelines reiterates the statement in the Initial Statement of Reasons that “[t]he Scoping Plan may not be appropriate for use in determining the significance of individual projects because it is conceptual at this stage and relies on the future development of regulations to implement the strategies identified in the Scoping Plan” (CNRA 2009a).