Transportation: zero-emission vehicles.

(1) Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to develop and update every 5 years the California Transportation Plan. Under existing law, the plan describes the state's transportation policies and system performance objectives, includes broad transportation strategies and recommendations, considers certain topics relating to the movement of people and freight, and addresses how the state will achieve maximum feasible emissions reductions to attain a statewide reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to 40% below 1990 levels by December 31, 2030, and other air quality standards. This bill would require the Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with certain state entities, to implement a Safe and Clean Truck Infrastructure Program to support the construction and operation of zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicle parking and electric vehicle charging and hydrogen refueling infrastructure on public and private properties, and to encourage the use of zero-emission vehicles. As part of the program, the bill would require the Secretary of Transportation, by January 1, 2025, to conduct an assessment outlining regional zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicle parking and refueling deficiencies and strategies to address those deficiencies. (2) Existing law establishes the Clean Freight Corridor Efficiency Assessment, to be developed by the California Transportation Commission, in coordination with other state agencies, and requires the assessment's findings and recommendations to be incorporated into the development of the California Transportation Plan. In developing the assessment, existing law requires the commission to identify freight corridors, or segments of corridors, throughout the state that would be priority candidates for the deployment of zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. Existing law requires the commission to submit a report containing the assessment's findings and recommendations to certain committees of the Legislature by December 1, 2023. This bill would require the commission, in developing the plan, to also identify, among other things, short- and long-term zero-emission electric vehicle charging and hydrogen refueling strategies for the freight transportation system and regional zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicle parking and refueling deficiencies and strategies to address those deficiencies. (3) Existing law requires the California Transportation Commission, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to allocate certain revenues deposited in the Trade Corridor Enhancement Account and certain federal funds for eligible infrastructure projects, including truck corridor improvements to mitigate emissions from trucks, located on or along specified transportation corridors. This bill would provide that the construction and operation of zero-emission truck parking, and supporting electric vehicle charging and hydrogen refueling networks, that the Secretary of Transportation has identified as part of the Safe and Clean Truck Infrastructure Program is an infrastructure project eligible for this funding.