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North County Recycling Center and Sanitary Landfill Permit Revision Project Final Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration · San Joaquin County | May 2025 39 Program, Low-Carbon Fuel Standard, Renewable Portfolio Standard Program, energy efficiency standards, SLCP Reduction Strategy, and Cap-and-Trade Program (CARB 2017). In December 2022, CARB adopted the 2022 Scoping Plan for Achieving Carbon Neutrality (2022 Scoping Plan), which outlines a roadmap to achieve targets for carbon neutrality and reduce anthropogenic GHG emissions by 85 percent below 1990 levels no later than 2045. Building on the 2017 Scoping Plan, the 2022 Scoping Plan evaluates the progress made toward meeting the 2030 GHG reduction target established in SB 32 and identifies a technologically feasible, cost- effective, and equity-focused path to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045. The 2022 Scoping Plan presents an approach for an aggressive reduction of fossil fuels and a rapid transition to renewable energy resources and zero-emission vehicles; it identifies key sectors such as transportation sustainability, clean electricity grid, sustainable manufacturing and buildings, carbon dioxide removal and capture, short-lived climate pollutants, and natural and working lands. The 2022 Scoping Plan identifies actions and outcomes such as rapidly moving to zero- emission transportation; electrifying cars, buses, trains, and trucks; phasing out the use of fossil gas used for heating homes and buildings; clamping down on chemicals and refrigerants; providing communities with sustainable options for walking, biking, and public transit; building out clean, renewable energy resources (such as solar arrays and wind turbine capacity) to displace fossil-fuel fired electrical generation; and scaling up new options such as renewable hydrogen and biomethane. The 2022 Scoping Plan outlines several strategies to reduce methane emissions from landfills, with a focus on organic waste diversion, composting and anerobic digestion capacity expansion, and existing landfill operational practice improvement. Regional Regulations The project is located in the San Joaquin Valley Air Basin, which is under the jurisdiction of the Valley Air District. The Valley Air District has implemented these plans and adopted nearly 650 rules that have resulted in significant emissions reductions. Rule 4642 (Solid Waste Disposal Sites) limits volatile organic compound emissions from solid waste disposal sites. Climate change is not caused by any individual emissions source but by a large number of sources around the world emitting GHGs that collectively create a significant cumulative impact. 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. In 2008, Valley Air District adopted the Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP). The CCAP directed the District Air Pollution Control Officer to develop guidance to assist Lead Agencies, project proponents, permit applicants, and interested parties in assessing and reducing the impacts of project specific GHG emissions on global climate change. In 2009, the Valley Air District adopted the Guidance for Valley Land-use Agencies in Addressing GHG Emission Impacts for New Projects under CEQA and a policy entitled Addressing GHG Emission Impacts for Stationary Source Projects Under CEQA When Serving as the Lead Agency (Policy). In 2015, the Valley Air District adopted thresholds of significance to assist lead agencies in the evaluation and mitigation of air quality impacts under CEQA (CEQA Guidance). The Valley Air District has not established a numerical GHG emissions threshold in the absence of supporting scientific evidence. Instead, the Valley Air