Mobile fueling on-demand tank vehicles.

(1) Existing law generally designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency with the primary responsibility for the control of vehicular air pollution and air pollution control and air quality management districts with the primary responsibility for the control of air pollution from all sources other than vehicular sources. This bill would classify a mobile fueling on-demand tank vehicle, as defined, as a mobile source and would require that it be regulated by the state board. The bill would require the state board to adopt regulations on or before an unspecified date to achieve reductions in emissions attributable to mobile fueling on-demand tank vehicles. (2) Existing law requires the state board to adopt performance standards to ensure that systems for the control of gasoline vapors resulting from motor vehicle fueling operations do not cause excessive gasoline liquid spillage when used in a proper manner. Existing law requires the state board to adopt test procedures to determine the compliance with vapor emission standards of vapor recovery systems of cargo tanks on tank vehicles used to transport gasoline, as provided. Existing law authorizes the state board to test those vapor recovery systems, to certify those systems if they meet the state board's requirements, and to charge a fee for certification. Existing law prohibits a person from operating, or allowing the operation of, a tank vehicle transporting gasoline that is required to have a vapor recovery system, unless the system has been certified and is installed and maintained in compliance with the requirements for certification. Existing law exempts from these certification requirements tank vehicles used exclusively to service gasoline storage tanks that are not required to have gasoline vapor controls. Existing law makes a violation of a rule or regulation of the state board or a district relating to nonvehicular air pollution control a misdemeanor. This bill would impose those testing, installation, maintenance, and certification requirements on a system or system component of a mobile fueling on-demand tank vehicle used to load, transport, and transfer motor vehicle fuel directly from an onboard cargo tank into a motor vehicle fuel tank. By expanding the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would exempt from the certification requirements motor vehicle fuel tanks equipped with onboard refueling vapor recovery systems. (3) Existing law prohibits a person from installing or maintaining a stationary gasoline tank with a capacity of 250 gallons or more that is not equipped for loading through a permanent submerged fill pipe, unless certain conditions apply, subject to certain exceptions. This bill would provide that the prohibition does not apply with regard to a mobile fueling on-demand tank vehicle, except as provided. (4) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.