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4 Environmental Analysis 4.8 Greenhouse Gas Emissions year 2020; and (3) 80 percent below the 1990 levels by the year 2050. In 2006, this goal was further reinforced with the passage of AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. AB 32 sets the same overall GHG emissions reduction goals while further mandating that the CARB create a plan (Scoping Plan),which includes market mechanisms, and implement rules to achieve "real, quantifiable, cost-effective reductions of greenhouse gases." CARB's 2022 Scoping Plan for Achieving Carbon Neutrality (Scoping Plan, CARB 2022) was prepared to address climate legislation passed since the last scoping plan, which was prepared in 2017. The Scoping Plan addresses AB 1279, SB 905, SB 1065, SB 1075, and other legislation and executive orders addressing GHG reductions in various manufacturing sectors and managing natural lands. SB 32 codifies the emissions reduction goal of 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. In 2022, California passed AB 1279 (California Crisis Act), which introduced a statewide policy to "achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, but no later than 2045, and achieve and maintain net negative greenhouse gas emissions thereafter, and to ensure that by 2045, statewide anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 85% below the 1990 levels". The bill would require the state board to work with relevant state agencies to ensure that updates to the scoping plan identify and recommend measures to achieve these policy goals and to identify and implement a variety of policies and strategies that enable carbon dioxide removal solutions and carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies in California, as specified. AB 32 requires the state to create an opportunity for interested parties to comment on the scoping plan by conducting public workshops. It is required to conduct a portion of these workshops in regions with low- 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 a Renewables 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 Griffith Energy Storage Project 4.8-5 Tetra Tech/SCH 2022120675 Draft Environmental Impact Report August 2023