AB 3015: Marine terminal operations.

The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The state board is required to approve a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020 and to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. The act requires the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to update the scoping plan at least once every 5 years.

Existing law requires the Transportation Agency to prepare a state freight plan that provides a comprehensive plan to govern the immediate and long-range planning activities and capital investments of the state with respect to movement of freight. Existing law requires the agency to establish a freight advisory committee that would assist the agency in the development of the state freight plan, as specified. The bill would require the state freight plan to include certain elements.

This bill would require the state freight plan submitted on or before December 31, 2024, to contain additional specified elements relating to the development of transportation infrastructure to support the introduction of intermodal zero-emissions zero-emission and near-zero-emission cargo handling equipment at California seaports and rail yards. The bill would require the agency to undertake certain activities with respect to the development of those additional elements. The bill would require the state board, by June 30, 2023, to develop a technical report with respect to the transition to zero-emission and near-zero-emission cargo handling equipment, as specified, and to incorporate the findings of consider the report in the preparation of subsequent updates of the scoping plan.