CALIFORNIA REGULATORY NOTICE REGISTER 2020, VOLUME NUMBER 2-Z 
TITLE 13. AIR RESOURCES BOARD 
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO 
CONSIDER THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS 
TO THE REGULATION ON THE 
COMMERCIALIZATION OF ALTERNATIVE 
DIESEL FUELS 
The California Air Resources Board (CARB or 
Board) will conduct a public hearing at the time and 
place noted below to consider approving for adoption 
the proposed amendments to the Regulation on the Commercialization of  Alternative Diesel Fuels (ADF). 
DATE: February 27, 2020 
TIME: 9:00 a.m. LOCATION: 
California Environmental Protection Agency 
California Air Resources Board 
Byron Sher Auditorium 1001 I Street 
Sacramento, California 95814 
This item will be considered at a meeting of the 
Board, which will commence at 9:00 a.m., February 27, 
2020, and may continue at 8:30 a.m., on February 28, 2020. Please consult the agenda for the hearing, which 
will be available at least ten days before February 27, 2020, to determine the day on which this item will be considered. 
WRITTEN    COMMENT PERIOD AND 
SUBMITTAL OF COMMENTS 
In accordance with the Administrative Procedure 
Act, interested members of the public may present com-
ments orally or in writing at the hearing and may pro-vide comments by postal mail or by electronic submittal 
before    the hearing. The public comment period for this 
regulatory action  will begin on January 10, 2020. Writ-
ten comments not physically submitted at the hearing must be  submitted on or after January 10, 2020, and re-
ceived no later than February 24, 2020.    Comments 
submitted outside that comment period are considered untimely. CARB may, but is not required to, respond to 
untimely comments, including those raising significant 
environmental issues. CARB requests that, when possi-
ble, written and email statements be filed at least ten 
days before the hearing to give CARB staff and Board members additional time to consider each comment. The Board also encourages members of the public to 
bring to the attention of staff in advance of the hearing 
any suggestions for modification of the proposed regu-latory action. Comments submitted in advance of the 
hearing must be addressed to one of the following: 
Postal mail: 
Clerks’ Office, California Air Resources Board 
1001 I Street, Sacramento, California 95814 
Electronic submittal: http://www.arb.ca.gov/lispub/ 
comm/bclist.php 
Please note that under the California Public Records 
Act (Gov. Code, section 6250 et seq.), your written and 
oral comments, attachments, and associated contact in-
formation (e.g., your address, phone, email, etc.) be-come part of the public record and can be released to the 
public upon request. 
Additionally,  the Board requests but does not require 
that persons who submit written comments to the Board 
reference the title of the proposal in their comments to 
facilitate review. 
AUTHORITY AND REFERENCE 
This regulatory action is proposed under the authority 
granted in California Health and Safety Code, sections 
39600, 39601, 43013, 43018 and 43101, Health and 
Safety Code; and Western Oil and Gas Ass’n. v. Orange 
County Air Pollution Control District,    14 Cal. 3d 411, 
121   Cal.Rptr. 249 (1975). This action is proposed to im-
plement, interpret and make specific sections 39000, 39001, 39002, 39003, 39010, 39500, 39515, 40000, 43000, 43016, 43018, 43026, 43101, 43830.8 and 
43865, Health and Safety Code; and Western Oil and 
Gas   Ass’n. v.  Orange County Air Pollution Control Dis-
trict, 14 Cal. 3d 411,  121 Cal.Rptr. 249 (1975). 
INFORMATIVE   DIGEST OF PROPOSED 
ACTION AND POLICY STATEMENT OVERVIEW 
(GOV . CODE, section 11346.5, subd. (a)(3)) 
Sections Affected : Proposed amendments to Cali-
fornia  Code of Regulations, title 13, division 3, chapter 
5, article 3, subarticle 2, section 2293.2 and Appendix 1. 
Background  and Effect of the Proposed Regulatory 
Action : 
California Air Resources (CARB or Board) staff is 
proposing to  amend the Regulation on the Commercial-
ization of Alternative Diesel Fuels (Alternative Diesel 
Fuel regulation) to improve the rigor and clarity of its 
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testing and certification program.1   The Alternative 
Diesel Fuel (ADF) regulation is a key element of Cali-
fornia’s Fuels Program;2 it preserves or improves pub-
lic health and the environmental and emissions benefits 
associated    with the use of innovative ADFs in Califor-
nia. This report presents staff’s proposal to amend the 
ADF regulation to reinforce the emissions certification testing requirements and require biodiesel additives 
and ADF formulations uniformly to be certified accord-
ing to new certification procedures. The proposed amendments will further ensure that additives or ADF formulations are certified to mitigate potential oxides of 
nitrogen (NOx) emissions increases from the use of biodiesel consistent with rigorous and appropriate protocols. 
CARB    may also consider other changes to the sec-
tions affected, as listed on page two of this notice, dur-
ing the course of this rulemaking process. 
Background on the ADF Regulation 
The ADF regulation governs the introduction and use 
of innovative alternative diesel fuels in California, 
while preserving or enhancing public health, the envi-
ronment and the emissions benefits of the existing mo-
tor vehicle diesel fuel regulations. The regulation con-
sists   of two major parts: 1) a three−stage process for 
ADFs to be introduced into the California market in-
cluding, if necessary, a determination of mitigation 
measures needed to ensure no degradation in air quality, 
and 2) in−use requirements for biodiesel as the first 
ADF. 
The first part of the regulation establishes the admin-
istrative and regulatory framework for the commercial-
ization of  ADFs. The formal framework is necessary for 
two primary reasons. First, programs such as the Cali-
fornia’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) and the fed-
eral Renewable Fuels Standard incentivize the rapid de-
velopment of ADFs. Many of these fuels provide crite-
ria pollutant and toxic air contaminant emission reduc-
tions in  addition to their greenhouse gas (GHG) benefit. 
Second, some ADFs may have adverse effects under 
certain and limited circumstances. 
The biodiesel portion of the ADF regulation includes 
provisions designed to control potential increases in 
NOx emissions that could otherwise be caused by the 
1  Codified at Title 13, California Code of Regulations, sections 
2293−2293.9 and Appendix 1 of Subarticle 2. 
2   California’s Fuels Program includes several fuels regulations 
and   programs that establish the overarching framework of Cali-
fornia’s transportation fuel policies. Background information 
about   the program is available at: https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/fuels/ 
background.htm. use of biodiesel under certain and limited circum-
stances. The biodiesel provisions contain a process for 
certification of  additives or ADF formulations that have 
demonstrated, through emissions testing, to mitigate 
potential NOx increases from the use of biodiesel. Ad-
ditives approved for NOx emission control purposes 
used to meet the in−use requirements must result in emissions    equivalence with CARB diesel. 
Regulatory Development of the ADF Regulation 
The Board approved the ADF regulation for adoption 
on September 25, 2015, and the regulation entered into 
full effect on January 1, 2016. The regulation was sub-
sequently a mended in 2018. 
Beginning in 2016, regulated parties started reporting 
produced, imported, and blended amounts of all biodiesel blendstocks and the biodiesel blends pro-duced, pursuant to the reporting and recording require-ments of the biodiesel in−use provisions of the regula-
tion. The biodiesel in−use requirements, which mitigate 
potential NOx increases, went into effect on January 1, 
2018. Effective January 1, 2018, all biodiesel blends above the NOx control level must be NOx mitigated by 
using additives or fuel formulations approved by CARB. 
In 2018, staff proposed amendments to the ADF 
biodiesel in−use NOx mitigation sunset provisions and 
certification requirements of the regulation to ensure 
long term NOx mitigation. The amendments were adopted by the Board on September 27, 2018 and took 
effect in  January 2019. 
The Initial Statement of Reasons (ISOR or Staff Re-
port) for the proposed amendments builds on the com-prehensive and extensive work that was done in support 
of the original 2015 rulemaking
3   and the amendments 
to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard and Alternative Diesel Fuel Regulations (2018 Amendments).
4 The full 
regulatory  record and background for these ADF regu-
lation rulemakings is available at the Alternative Diesel 
3   See “Staff Report: Initial Statement of Reasons: Proposed Regu-
lation   on the Commercialization of Alternative Diesel Fuels.” 
January   2 (2015); and “Final Statement of Reasons for Rulemak-
ing,   Including Summary of Public Comments and Agency Re-
sponses.”   September (2015). Available at: https://ww3.arb.ca. 
gov/regact/2015/adf2015/adf2015.htm. 
4   See “Staff Report: Initial Statement of Reasons: Proposed 
Amendments   to  the Low Carbon Fuel Standard Regulation and to 
the   Regulation on Commercialization of Alternative Diesel Fu-
els.” March 6 (2018); and “Final Statement of Reasons: Amend-
ments   to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard Regulation and to the 
Regulation   on Commercialization of Alternative Diesel Fuels.” 
November   (2018). Available at: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/ 
rulemaking/2018/low−carbon−fuel−standard−and−alternative− 
diesel−fuels−regulation−2018 . 
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Fuels Rulemaking History webpage.5   Additional pro-
gram information is available at the ADF webpage.6 
Proposed Amendments to the ADF Regulation 
Staff is proposing amendments to reinforce the 
process for certification of additives and ADF formula-
tions. Staff anticipates that parties will continue to wish 
to undergo certification as demand for ADFs grow. As 
this market develops, it is appropriate to ensure that all 
certified  products undergo consistent and rigorous test-
ing. At present, however, products have been certified under different versions of the regulation, and the test-
ing protocols have changed over time. Accordingly, 
these amendments require all certified products going forward  to use the same testing procedures, and ensure 
these procedures are rigorous, and consistent with the public health protection purposes of the ADF regulation. 
The proposed amendments to the certification proce-
dures would require, in addition to various additional clarifying terms, 1) emissions testing at two indepen-dent labs, 2) additional emissions testing with a com-mercially available Designated Equivalent Limits 
Diesel, 3) presence of a qualified observer during test 
fuel preparation and emissions testing, 4) more strin-gent chain of custody demonstration provisions. The amendments would require that any certified additive 
or alternative diesel fuel formulation would need to 
pass   a statistical test for emissions equivalence with 
diesel for both NOx and particulate matter (PM) at both 
emissions  testing labs and on both diesel test fuels. 
Staff is also proposing amendments that would re-
quire all biodiesel additives and ADF formulations to 
be certified according to new certification procedures. 
Existing certified products could continue to be used 
before January 1, 2021 under legacy certifications, but use after that date will be allowed only for products cer-tified under the procedures of these amendments. Staff 
is also proposing to include renewable diesel blends with biodiesel and conventional diesel consisting of at least 75  percent renewable diesel and at most 20 percent 
biodiesel as an approved emissions equivalent formula-tion, as  ratios of at least 2.75 to 1 of renewable diesel to 
biodiesel are suf ficient to fully mitigate NOx emissions 
from  biodiesel.
7 Therefore, an R75 B20 fuel would pro-
vide NOx emissions reductions compared to CARB Diesel and would be NOx beneficial as a whole. 
5   Alternative Diesel Fuels Rulemaking History webpage avail-
able   at: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our−work/programs/alternative− 
diesel−fuels/alternative−diesel−fuels−rulemaking−history . 
6 Alternative Diesel Fuels webpage available at: https://ww2.arb. 
ca.gov/our−work/programs/alternative−diesel−fuels . 
7 See “Proposed Regulation on the Commercialization of Alterna-
tive  Diesel Fuels — Staff Report: Initial Statement of Reasons.” 
January   2 (2015). Available at: https://www.arb.ca.gov/regact/ 
2015/adf2015/adf15isor.pdf . Objectives and Benefits of the Proposed Regulatory 
Action: 
As discussed above, staff is proposing amendments 
to reinforce the process for certification of additives and ADF formulations. The objective of the proposed 
amendments is to ensure that the process for certifica-
tion of additives or alternative diesel fuel formulations is consistent for all products in the market and provides assurance that those additives or formulations that pass 
emissions testing are effective in mitigating the poten-tial NOx emissions from biodiesel use. Given that the proposed amendments will continue to ensure the NOx 
emissions    reductions required by the ADF regulation, 
these amendments will also protect public health and 
safety, worker safety, and the State’s environment. A detailed description of the proposed amendments is 
provided in Chapter III of the “Staff Report: Initial 
Statement of Reasons — Public Hearing to Consider the Proposed Amendments to the Regulation on the Commercialization of Alternative Diesel Fuels,” re-
ferred to as the ISOR. The Proposed Regulation Order 
is Appendix A of the ISOR. 
Comparable Federal Regulations: 
There are no current federal regulations comparable 
to the proposed regulation. An Evaluation of Inconsistency or Incompatibility 
with   Existing State Regulations (Gov. Code, section 
11346.5, subd.    (a)(3)(D)): 
During the process of developing the proposed regu-
latory   action, CARB conducted a search of any similar 
regulations on this topic and concluded these regula-
tions are neither inconsistent nor incompatible with ex-isting state regulations. 
DISCLOSURES REGARDING THE 
PROPOSED REGULATION 
Fiscal Impact/Local Mandate Determination 
Regarding the Proposed Action (Gov. Code, section 
11346.5, subds.    (a)(5)   and   (6)): 
The determinations of the Board’s Executive Officer 
concerning the costs or savings incurred by public 
agencies and private persons and businesses in reason-
able compliance with the proposed regulatory action are presented below. 
Under Government Code sections 11346.5, subdivi-
sion (a)(5) and 11346.5, subdivision (a)(6), the Execu-tive Officer has determined that the proposed regulato-ry action would not create costs or savings to any State agency, would not create costs or savings in federal 
funding to  the State, would not create costs or mandates 
to any local agency or school district, whether or not re-
imbursable by the State under Government Code, title 2, division 4, part 7 (commencing with section 17500), 
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or other nondiscretionary cost or savings to State or lo-
cal agencies. 
Housing Costs (Gov. Code, section 11346.5, subd. 
(a)(12)): 
The Executive Officer has also made the initial deter-
mination that the proposed regulatory action will not have a  significant effect on housing costs. 
Significant   Statewide Adverse Economic Impact 
Directly Affecting Business, Including Ability to Compete (Gov. Code, sections 11346.3, subd. (a), 
11346.5, subd. (a)(7), 1 1346.5, subd. (a)(8)): 
The Executive Of ficer has made an initial determina-
tion  that the proposed regulatory action would not have 
a significant statewide adverse economic impact direct-
ly   affecting businesses, including the ability of Califor-
nia businesses to compete with businesses in other 
states, or    on  representative private persons. 
Results of The Economic Impact Analysis/ 
Assessment    (Gov. Code, section 11346.5, subd. 
(a)(10)): 
A detailed assessment of the economic impacts of the 
proposed regulatory action can be found in Chapter VIII   of  the ISOR. 
NON−MAJOR REGULATION: Statement of the 
Results of  the Economic Impact Assessment (EIA) : 
Effect on Jobs/Businesses: 
The Executive Officer has determined that the pro-
posed regulatory action would not affect the creation or 
elimination of jobs within the State of California, the creation of new businesses or elimination of existing 
businesses    within the State of California, or the expan-
sion of businesses currently doing business within the State of California. A detailed assessment of the eco-
nomic impacts of the proposed regulatory action can be 
found in  Chapter VIII of the ISOR. 
Benefits of the Pr oposed Regulation: 
The   objective of the proposed regulatory action is to 
ensure that the process for certification of additives and 
alternative diesel fuel formulations provides assurance 
that those additives or formulations that pass emissions 
testing are effective at mitigating the potential NOx emissions  from the use of the biodiesel. 
A summary of these benefits is provided, please refer 
to “Objectives and Benefits,” under the Informative Di-gest of Proposed Action and Policy Statement Over-view Pursuant to Government Code 11346.5(a)(3) dis-
cussion, above. 
Cost Impacts on Representative Private Persons or Businesses    (Gov. Code, section 11346.5, subd. 
(a)(9)): 
In developing this regulatory proposal, CARB staff 
evaluated the potential economic impacts on represen-tative private persons or businesses. CARB is not aware 
of any cost impacts that a representative private person or business would necessarily incur in reasonable com-pliance with the proposed action. 
Effect on Small Business (Cal. Code Regs., tit. 1, section 4,  subds. (a) and (b)): 
The Executive Officer has also determined under 
California Code of Regulations, title 1, section 4, that the proposed regulatory action would affect small 
businesses. 
In total, up to 59 businesses with California opera-
tions maybe impacted by the proposed amendments; 8 
biodiesel producers, 15 importers, 32 blenders, 3 addi-
tive manufacturers and 1 auto emissions testing lab. Six 
entities are both producers/importers and blenders. Thirteen importers (out of the total 15 importers) have their  headquarters located out of the state. All biodiesel 
production is located in−state. Five blenders reported their business addresses as out−of−state. The auto emis-
sions testing lab is located in−state. 
Additive manufacturers are the only directly impact-
ed businesses, and all of the additive manufacturers are small businesses. Only those additive manufacturers that wish to certify to supply their products after the ef-
fective date for the uniform certification requirement 
are impacted by the proposed regulation. The proposed amendments require biodiesel additives and ADF for-mulations uniformly to be certified according to new 
certification procedures. These three manufacturers 
would need to certify their additives or formulations ac-
cording to new certification procedures if they wished to continue using them in California after January 1, 
2021. That certification could result in a one−time ini-
tial cost of $525,000 for one manufacturer or $1.6 mil-
lion for all three manufacturers combined. 
Consideration of Alternatives (Gov. Code, section 11346.5, subd. (a)(13)): 
Before taking final action on the proposed regulatory 
action, the Board must determine that no reasonable al-
ternative considered by the Board, or that has otherwise 
been identified and brought to the attention of the Board, would be more ef fective in  carrying out the pur-
pose for which the action is proposed, would be as ef-fective and less burdensome to affected private persons 
than the proposed action, or would be more cost− effective to affected private persons and equally effec-tive in  implementing the statutory policy or other provi-
sions of    law. 
ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS 
CARB prepared an environmental analysis (EA) for 
the 2018 Amendments under its certified regulatory program  (California Code of Regulations, title 17, sec-
tions 60000 through 60008) to comply with the require-
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ments of the California Environmental Quality Act 
(CEQA; Public Resources Code section 21080.5). As 
we discuss below, in light of this analysis, staff conclud-
ed that no additional environmental review is required for these amendments. 
The EA, included in Appendix D of that ISOR, enti-
tled Appendix D: Final Environmental Analysis for the 
Proposed Amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Stan-
dard and the Alternative Diesel Fuels Regulation (2018 
EA),  dated September 17, 2018, determined that the im-
pacts associated with the 2018 Amendments included: beneficial impacts to energy demand and greenhouse gases  (GHG); less than significant impacts to air quality 
(odor), energy demand, GHGs, hazards and hazardous 
materials, mineral resources, population, employment, 
and housing, public services, and recreation; and poten-
tially significant and unavoidable adverse impacts to 
aesthetics, agriculture and forest resources, air quality, biological resources, cultural resources, energy de-mand, geology and soils, hazards and hazardous materi-
als, hydrology and water quality, land use planning, 
mineral  resources, noise, transportation and traffic, and 
utilities and service systems. 
The potentially significant and unavoidable adverse 
impacts are disclosed for both short term, construction 
related activities, and long−term operational activities, which explains why some resource areas were identi-
fied above as having both less than significant impacts 
and potentially significant impacts. The EA also identi-
fied possible localized operational impacts to air quality 
from  activities including feedstock transport to produc-
tion facilities, production of biofuels, transport of fin-ished fuels to blending facilities, and from carbon cap-ture and sequestration (CCS) projects, associated with 
reasonably foreseeable compliance responses to the 
LCFS regulation and the ADF regulation. While the EA 
found these localized impacts unlikely, CARB could not dismiss the potential for these impacts, and conser-vatively identified these impacts as potentially signifi-cant and unavoidable. 
While the 2018 EA concluded that many impacts as-
sociated with the 2018 Amendments could be reduced to a less−than−significant level through conditions of approval applied to project−specific development, the authority to require and implement that mitigation lies with land use agencies or other agencies approving the development projects, not with CARB. Consequently, 
the   2018 EA took a conservative approach in its signifi-
cance conclusions and disclosed, for CEQA compli-
ance purposes, that impacts from the development of new facilities or modification of existing facilities asso-
ciated with reasonably foreseeable compliance re-sponses    to the 2018 Amendments could be potentially 
significant and unavoidable under several resource ar-eas. These si gnificance determinations are discussed in 
greater detail in the 2018 EA.
8  
In regard to these proposed amendments to the ADF 
regulation, staff has determined that no additional envi-
ronmental review is required because there are no 
changes t hat involve new significant environmental ef-
fects or a substantial increase in severity of previously identified significant effects than previously identified 
in   the 2018 EA. The basis for reaching this conclusion is 
provided in  Chapter VI of the ISOR. 
SPECIAL   ACCOMMODATION REQUEST 
Consistent    with California Government Code Sec-
tion 7296.2, special accommodation or language needs 
may be provided for any of the following: 
  An interpreter to be available at the hearing; 
  Documents made available in an alternate format 
or another language; and 
  A disability−related reasonable accommodation. 
To request these special accommodations or lan-
guage needs, please contact the Clerks’ Office at (916) 
322−5594 or by    facsimile at (916) 322−3928 as soon as 
possible, but no later than ten business days before the 
scheduled Board hearing. TTY/TDD/Speech to Speech users may dial 711  for the California Relay Service. 
Consecuente con la sección 7296.2 del Código de 
Gobierno de California, una acomodación especial o 
necesidades lingüísticas pueden ser suministradas para 
cualquiera de l  os siguientes: 
  Un intérprete que esté disponible en la audiencia; 
  Documentos disponibles en un formato alterno u 
otro idioma;   y 
  Una   acomodación razonable relacionados con una 
incapacidad. 
Para solicitar estas comodidades especiales o necesi-
dades de otro idioma, por favor Ilame a la oficina del 
Consejo al (916) 322−5594 o envié un fax a (916) 322−3928 lo más pronto posible, pero no   menos de 10 
días de  trabajo antes del día programado para la 
audien-cia del Consejo. TTY/TDD/Personas que necesiten este servicio pueden marcar el 711 para el 
Servicio de Re-t  ransmisión de Mensajes de California. 
AGENCY CONTACT PERSONS 
Inquiries concerning the substance of the proposed 
regulatory action may be directed to the agency repre-
8   See “Final Environmental Analysis Prepared for the Proposed 
Amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard and the Alterna-
tive  Diesel Fuels Regulation.” September 27 (2018). A vailable at: 
https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/regact/2018/lcfs18/finalea.pdf?_ga=2. 153489400.1380169015.1569650930− 60175395.1569650915. 
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sentative, James Guthrie, Staff Air Pollution Specialist, 
Emerging Technology Section, at (916) 327−1508 or 
Susie Chung, Air Pollution Specialist, Emerging Tech-
nology Section, at (916) 327−0647. 
A V AILABILITY    OF DOCUMENTS 
CARB  staff has prepared a Staff Report: Initial State-
ment of  Reasons (ISOR) for the proposed regulatory ac-
tion, which includes a summary of the economic and 
environmental impacts of the proposal. The report is en-
titled Staff Report: Initial Statement of Reasons — Pub-
lic Hearing to Consider the Proposed Amendments to the Regulation on the Commercialization of Alterna-
tive Diesel Fuels. 
Copies of the ISOR and the full text of the proposed 
regulatory  language may be accessed on CARB’s  web-
site listed below or may be obtained from the Public In-
formation Office, California Air Resources Board, 1001 I Street, Visitors and Environmental Services Center, First Floor, Sacramento, California, 95814, on 
January 7,  2020. 
Further, the agency representative to whom nonsub-
stantive inquiries concerning the proposed administra-tive action may be directed is Bradley Bechtold, Regu-
lations Coordinator, (916) 322−6533. The Board staff 
has compiled a record for this rulemaking action, which includes all the information upon which the proposal is 
based. This material is available for inspection upon re-
quest to  the contact persons. 
HEARING PROCEDURES 
The public hearing will be conducted in accordance 
with the California Administrative Procedure Act, 
Government Code, title 2, division 3, part 1, chapter 3.5 
(commencing with section 1 1340). 
Following the public hearing, the Board may take ac-
tion to approve for adoption the regulatory language as 
originally proposed, or with non−substantial or gram-matical modifications. The Board may also approve for 
adoption the proposed regulatory language with other modifications if the text as modified is sufficiently re-lated to the originally proposed text that the public was 
adequately placed on notice and that the regulatory lan-
guage as modified could result from the proposed regu-latory action. If this occurs, the full regulatory text, with 
the modifications clearly indicated, will be made avail-
able to the public, for written comment, at least 15 days before final adoption. 
The public may request a copy of the modified regu-
latory text from CARB’ s Public Information Office, Air Resources    Board, 1001 I Street, Visitors and Environ-
mental Services Center, First Floor, Sacramento, Cali-fornia,  95814. 
FINAL STATEMENT OF 
REASONS A V AILABILITY 
Upon its completion, the Final Statement of Reasons 
(FSOR) will be available and copies may be requested from the agency contact persons in this notice or may be 
accessed    on  CARB’s website listed below. 
INTERNET    ACCESS 
This notice, the ISOR and all subsequent regulatory 
documents, including the FSOR, when completed, are 
available on CARB’s website for this rulemaking at 
https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/rulemaking/2020/adf2020. 
TITLE 13. DEPARTMENT OF 
MOTOR VEHICLES 
The Department of Motor V ehicles (department) pro-
poses    to  adopt Sections 153.00, 153.02, 153.04, 153.06, 
153.08, 153.10, 153.12, 153.14, 153.16, 153.18, 
153.20, 153.22, 153.24, 153.26 and 153.28 in Article 
3.0, Chapter 1, Division 1, Title 13 of the California Code of Regulations, regarding the Electronic Lien and 
Title Program to implement provisions relating to sec-
tion 4450.5 of the V ehicle Code. 
PUBLIC HEARING 
A public hearing regarding this proposed regulatory 
action is not scheduled. However, a public hearing will 
be held if any interested person or his or her duly autho-
rized representative requests a public hearing to be held relevant to the proposed action by submitting a written 
request to  the contact person identified in this notice no 
later than 5:00 p.m., fifteen (15) days prior to the close 
of the written comment period. 
DEADLINE    FOR WRITTEN COMMENTS 
Any interested party or his or her duly authorized rep-
resentative may submit written comments relevant to the proposed regulations to the contact person identi-fied in this notice. All written comments must be re-
ceived at  the department no later than midnight, Febru-
ary 25, 2020, the final day of the written comment peri-
od, in order for them to be considered by the department before it  adopts the proposed regulation. 
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