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Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Technical Report Griffith Energy Storage Project for several types of stationary sources (e.g., boilers), it has not developed BPS for land development projects. Projects implementing any combination of BPS, and/or demonstrating a total 29 percent reduction in GHG emissions from business-as-usual, would be determined to have a less than significant individual and cumulative impact on global climate change (SJVAPCD 2015a). 3.2.3.2 San Joaquin Council of Governments SB 375 requires metropolitan planning organizations to prepare a Sustainable Community Strategy (SCS) in their RTP. The types and quantity of emissions produced in the SJCOG region vary among jurisdictional boundaries. However, for most jurisdictions, transportation and energy consumption are responsible for the majority of GHG emissions. As discussed in Section 2.2.3.2 the SJCOG adopted the 2018 RTP/SCS (SJCOG 2018) in June 2018. The RTP/SCS, is a long-range comprehensive plan for the region's multimodal transportation system. CARB provided GHG reduction targets for the 2018 RTP/SCS, setting the targets at a 5 percent per capita reduction by 2020 and 10 percent per capita reduction by 2035 from year 2005 levels. According to the Programmatic Draft Environmental Impact Report (SJCOG 2022), the 2018 RTP/SCS met those targets. On March 22, 2018, CARB adopted updated regional targets for reducing GHG emissions from 2005 levels by 2020 and 2035. SJCOG was assigned a 16 percent reduction of GHG emissions from per capita passenger vehicles by 2035, relative to 2005 emission levels. SJCOG is required to adopt an updated RTP at least every four years to receive federal and state transportation funding for public transit, streets/roads, and bicycle and pedestrian improvements. The proposed 2022 RTP/SCS will coordinate and facilitate planning and budgeting of transportation facilities and services within the SJCOG region through the year 2046 and will demonstrate how the SJCOG region will integrate transportation and land use planning to meet greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets established by CARB and other state and federal regulations. The SJCOG is in the process of preparing for the 2022 RTP/SCS. A Notice of Availability of a Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Report for the 2022 Regional Transportation Plan and Sustainable Communities Strategy was issued on June 24, 2022 (SJCOG 2022). The proposed 2022 RTP/SCS, as currently proposed, would result in a net decrease in overall transportation related GHG emissions in the SJCOG region. The Programmatic Draft Environmental Impact Report local review period extends through August 8, 2022. 3.2.3.3 Bay Area Air Quality Management District The BAAQMD provides direction and recommendations for the analysis of GHG impacts of a project and approach to mitigation measures in its CEQA Guidelines (BAAQMD 2017a). The guidance provided in the handbook was used to prepare this analysis. In addition, the 2017 Clean Air Plan, Spare the Air Cool the Climate defines a control strategy that the BAAQMD and its partners will implement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to protect the climate (BAAQMD 2017a). In April 2022, BAAQMD proposed CEQA thresholds of significance for climate impacts from land use projects and plans and published a justification report(BAAQMD 2022). CEQA requires agencies in California to analyze such impacts by evaluating whether a proposed project would make a "cumulatively considerable"contribution to the significant cumulative impact on climate change. The new thresholds were developed in response to new state GHG targets and BAAQMD scoping targets. These thresholds are intended to assist public agencies in determining whether proposed projects would make a cumulatively considerable contribution to global climate change, as required under CEQA. The proposed thresholds focus on design elements for land use and transportation aspects of development projects. If a project meets these elements, it is considered to contribute to what is necessary to contribute its portion of what is necessary to achieve California's long-term climate goals OTETRA TECH 34 July 2023