Vehicular air pollution: Clean Fleet Program.

Existing law establishes the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission. Existing law requires the commission under the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program to provide funding measures to certain entities to develop and deploy innovative technologies that transform California's fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state's climate change policies. Existing law requires the commission to give preference to those projects that maximize the goals of the program based on specified criteria and to fund specified eligible projects, including, among others, alternative and renewable fuel projects to develop and improve alternative and renewable low-carbon fuels, including renewable diesel. This bill would require the State Air Resources Board, by July 1, 2021, to adopt the Clean Fleet Program to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases, to improve air quality, and to benefit low-income residents by providing certain incentives for the displacement of petroleum diesel with biofuels, as defined, The bill would require the state board to adopt guidelines for the program and to begin the implementation of the program on January 1, 2022. The bill would require the state board, on July 1, 2021, and every fiscal year thereafter, to set specific and measurable goals for the displacement of petroleum fuel with biofuels.