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Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Technical Report Griffith Energy Storage Project income communities, and minority populations. SB 1020 (2022)would instead include "federal extreme nonattainment areas that have communities with minority populations, communities with low-income populations, or both" as regions for these workshops. Additionally, this bill would "accelerate the timeline required to have 100 percent renewable energy and zero carbon energy procured to serve state agencies from the original target year of 2045 to 2035." SB 905 requires the state board, along with appropriate state and local agencies, to "adopt regulations for a unified permit application for the construction and operation of carbon dioxide capture, removal, or sequestration projects" by January 1. 2025.The state board is required to develop a public database to track such projects. SB 1075 requires the state board to specify information relative to the deployment, development, and use of hydrogen as part of the evaluation posted to the state board's internet website by June 1, 2024. Additionally, the Energy Commission is expected "to study and model potential growth for hydrogen and its role in decarbonizing" as part of the 2023 and 2025 editions of the integrated energy policy report. SB 1206 mandates a stepped sales prohibition on newly produced high GWP HFCs to transition California's economy toward recycled and reclaimed HFCs for servicing existing HFC-based equipment. Additionally, SB 1206 also requires CARB to develop regulations to increase the adoption of very low-, i.e., GWP < 10, and no-GWP technologies in sectors that currently rely on higher-GWP HFCs. In 2002, SB 1078 established Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), which required an annual increase in renewable generation by the utilities with a goal of 20 percent by 2010. SB X1-2 expanded the RPS by establishing a renewable energy target of 20 percent of the total electricity sold to retail customers in California per year by 2013, and 33 percent by 2020 and subsequent years. SB 350 further expanded the RPS by establishing a goal of 50 percent of the total electricity sold to retail customers in California per year by 2030. SB 100 mandates that the CPUC, CEC, and CARB plan for 100 percent of total retail sales of electricity in California to come from eligible renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources by December 31, 2045. The statute requires these agencies to issue a joint policy report on SB 100 every four years. The first of these reports was issued in 2021. This Scoping Plan reflects the SB 100 Core Scenario resource mix with a few minor updates. This bill also updates the state's RPS to include the following interim targets: co 44 percent of retail sales procured from eligible renewable sources by December 31, 2024 oo 52 percent of retail sales procured from eligible renewable sources by December 31, 2027 co 60 percent of retail sales procured from eligible renewable sources by December 31, 2030 SB 97 acknowledges that climate change is a prominent environmental issue that requires analysis under CEQA. CEQA requires that lead agencies consider the reasonably foreseeable adverse environmental effects of projects they are considering for approval. GHG emissions can affect the environment adversely because they contribute, cumulatively, to global climate change. Thus, GHG emissions require consideration in CEQA documents. 3.2.3 Local Regulations 3.2.3.1 SJVAPCD In 2009, the SJVAPCD Governing Board adopted the Guidance for Valley Land-use Agencies in Addressing GHG Emission Impacts for New Projects under CEQA (SJVAPCD 2009a). The SJVAPCD found that the effects of project-specific emissions to be cumulative, and without mitigation, their incremental contribution to global climate change could be considered cumulatively considerable. The SJVAPCD found that this cumulative impact is best addressed by requiring all projects to reduce their GHG emissions, whether through project design elements or mitigation. For development projects, best performance standards (BPS)would include project design elements, land use decisions, and technologies that reduce GHG emissions. While the SJVAPCD has adopted BPS OTETRA TECH 33 July 2023