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CA Health & Safety Code § 39730.8 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 26 - AIR RESOURCES|PART 2 - STATE AIR RESOURCES BOARD|CHAPTER 4.2 - Global Warming|Section 39730.8.

39730.8.  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) “Commission” means the Public Utilities Commission.(2) “Energy commission” means the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission.(3) “Strategy” means the strategy to reduce short-lived climate pollutants developed pursuant to Section 39730.(b) The energy commission, in consultation with the state board and the commission, shall develop recommendations for the development and use of renewable gas, including biomethane and biogas, as a part of its 2017 Integrated Energy Policy Report prepared pursuant to Section 25302 of the Public Resources Code. In developing the recommendations, the energy commission shall identify cost-effective strategies that are consistent with existing state policies and climate change goals by considering priority end uses of renewable gas, including biomethane and biogas, and their interactions with state policies, including biomethane and all of the following:(1) The Renewables Portfolio Standard program (Article 16 (commencing with Section 399.11) of Chapter 2.3 of Part 1 of Division 1 of the Public Utilities Code).(2) The Low-Carbon Fuel Standard regulations (Subarticle 7 (commencing with Section 95480) of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations).(3) Waste diversion goals established pursuant to Division 30 (commencing with Section 40000) of the Public Resources Code.(4) The market-based compliance mechanism developed pursuant to Part 5 (commencing with Section 38570) of Division 25.5.(5) The strategy.(c) Based on the recommendations developed pursuant to subdivision (b), and to meet the state’s climate change, renewable energy, low-carbon fuel, and short-lived climate pollutants goals, including black carbon, landfill diversion, and dairy methane targets identified in the strategy, state agencies shall consider and, as appropriate, adopt policies and incentives to significantly increase the sustainable production and use of renewable gas, including biomethane and biogas.(d) Based on the recommendations developed pursuant to subdivision (b), the commission, in consultation with the energy commission and the state board, shall consider additional policies to support the development and use in the state of renewable gas, including biomethane and biogas, that reduce short-lived climate pollutants in the state.(e) In implementing this section, priority shall be given to fuels with the greatest greenhouse gas emissions benefits, including the consideration of carbon intensity and reduction in short-lived climate pollutants, as appropriate.(Added by Stats. 2016, Ch. 395, Sec. 5. (SB 1383) Effective January 1, 2017.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 39731 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 26 - AIR RESOURCES|PART 2 - STATE AIR RESOURCES BOARD|CHAPTER 4.2 - Global Warming|Section 39731.

39731.  The state board shall do all of the following:(a) Undertake, in consultation with districts that monitor methane, monitoring and measurements of high-emission methane hot spots in the state using the best available and cost-effective scientific and technical methods.(b) Consult with federal and state agencies, independent scientific experts, and any other appropriate entities to gather or acquire the necessary information for the purpose of carrying out a life-cycle greenhouse gas emission analysis of natural gas produced and imported into the state using the best available and cost-effective scientific and technical methods.(c) Update relevant policies and programs to incorporate the information gathered and acquired pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b).(d) Review, in consultation with independent scientific experts, the most recent available scientific data and reports on the atmospheric reactivity of methane as a precursor to the formation of photochemical oxidants.(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 604, Sec. 2. (AB 1496) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 39733 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 26 - AIR RESOURCES|PART 2 - STATE AIR RESOURCES BOARD|CHAPTER 4.2 - Global Warming|Section 39733.

39733.  (a) The Woodsmoke Reduction Program is hereby established to be developed and administered by the state board, in coordination with districts, to promote the voluntary replacement of old, uncertified wood-burning stoves with cleaner burning and more energy-efficient alternatives in order to achieve short- and long-term climate benefits and localized public health benefits. The program shall include all of the following:(1) Replacement of older, less efficient, uncertified wood-burning devices, including, but not limited to, woodstoves and wood inserts, with cleaner burning, more efficient home heating alternatives.(2) Prioritizing using incentive moneys on the most efficient, nonwood-burning devices, including, but not limited to, heat pumps and solar, electric, and natural gas heaters.(3) Prioritizing the cleanest and best available technologies if nonwood alternatives are infeasible or cost prohibitive, including education on proper burn practices to reduce emissions when wood is used.(4) Opportunities for demonstrating and providing information about the cleanest residential heating technologies as part of outreach efforts.(5) Requirements for the professional installation of new devices being changed out in order to maximize energy efficiency and minimize emissions.(b) Moneys for the program shall be available to the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, including, but not limited to, moneys from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, created pursuant to Section 16428.8 of the Government Code.(Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 671, Sec. 2. (SB 563) Effective January 1, 2018.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 39740.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 26 - AIR RESOURCES|PART 2 - STATE AIR RESOURCES BOARD|CHAPTER 4.3 - Carbon Sequestration|Section 39740.1.

39740.1.  For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:(a) “Natural and working lands-based carbon sequestration” means sustainable resource management practices, changes in land use, preservation of natural resources, fuel reduction or prescribed fire activities, and other practices that result in the long-term removal, capture, or sequestration of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to slow or reverse atmospheric carbon dioxide pollution and to mitigate or reverse global warming.(b) “Natural lands” has the same meaning as in paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 9001.5 of the Public Resources Code.(c) “Registry” means the California Carbon Sequestration and Climate Resiliency Project Registry established pursuant to Section 39740.3.(d) “Working lands” has the same meaning as in paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Section 9001.5 of the Public Resources Code.(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 237, Sec. 1. (SB 27) Effective January 1, 2022.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 39740.2 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 26 - AIR RESOURCES|PART 2 - STATE AIR RESOURCES BOARD|CHAPTER 4.3 - Carbon Sequestration|Section 39740.2.

39740.2.  (a) No later than July 1, 2023, the Natural Resources Agency, in coordination with the California Environmental Protection Agency, the state board, the Department of Food and Agriculture, and other relevant state agencies, shall establish the Natural and Working Lands Climate Smart Strategy. In developing this strategy, the agencies shall do all of the following:(1) Create a framework to advance the state’s climate goals.(2) Consider, based on the best available estimates, how increasing fire risk, warming temperatures, decreasing precipitation, and other climate change impacts will affect the ability of the state to sequester carbon on natural and working lands.(3) Support the economic and resource value of the lands and consider multiple benefits.(4) Support pathways for sectors, such as agriculture and forestry, to participate in the transition to a carbon neutrality economy.(5) Collect public feedback and conduct outreach.(6) Seek to align funding mechanisms to advance the strategy.(b) The state board, as part of its scoping plan prepared pursuant to Section 38561, shall establish carbon dioxide removal targets for 2030 and beyond, and shall take into consideration the Natural and Working Lands Climate Smart Strategy, science-based data, cost-effectiveness, and technological feasibility in setting the targets pursuant to this subdivision. The state board shall consider a range of targets, including those in line with the special report prepared by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) entitled “Global Warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius,” issued October 6, 2018, and leading carbon removal commitments globally, as well as recent and emerging research on carbon dioxide removal potential in California and market and technology conditions.(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 237, Sec. 1. (SB 27) Effective January 1, 2022.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 39740.3 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 26 - AIR RESOURCES|PART 2 - STATE AIR RESOURCES BOARD|CHAPTER 4.3 - Carbon Sequestration|Section 39740.3.

39740.3.  (a) No later than July 1, 2023, the Natural Resources Agency shall establish and maintain a registry called the California Carbon Sequestration and Climate Resiliency Project Registry for the purposes of identifying and listing projects in the state that drive climate action on the state’s natural and working lands and are seeking funding from state agencies or private entities. Carbon sequestration projects listed on the registry may include natural and working lands-based carbon sequestration projects and direct air capture projects. The Natural Resources Agency shall consider the environmental and public health impacts of any direct air capture project before adding the project to the registry.(b) The Natural Resources Agency may provide a mechanism for entities to search the registry based on the criteria specified in subparagraphs (A) to (F), inclusive, of paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 39740.5.(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 237, Sec. 1. (SB 27) Effective January 1, 2022.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 39740.4 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 26 - AIR RESOURCES|PART 2 - STATE AIR RESOURCES BOARD|CHAPTER 4.3 - Carbon Sequestration|Section 39740.4.

39740.4.  Beginning on the date the registry is established pursuant to Section 39740.3, projects that have applied for funding from one of the state programs funded from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, or any state program that funds natural and working lands-based carbon sequestration, and that meet minimum program requirements, established by the state board, to ensure they provide carbon removal benefits, but which did not receive funding from the state because of limited availability of funds, may be listed on the registry.(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 237, Sec. 1. (SB 27) Effective January 1, 2022.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 39740.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 26 - AIR RESOURCES|PART 2 - STATE AIR RESOURCES BOARD|CHAPTER 4.3 - Carbon Sequestration|Section 39740.5.

39740.5.  (a) The Natural Resources Agency, in collaboration with relevant state agencies and in consultation with diverse stakeholders, may create an application process for applicants to have their projects located in the state listed on the registry. The Natural Resources Agency shall ensure that projects submitted pursuant to the application process meet the following minimum criteria before listing them on the registry:(1) Achieve greenhouse gas reduction or carbon removal.(2) Include monitoring and reporting of carbon removal benefits over time.(3) Improve the state’s resilience to climate change.(4) Project documentation contains all of the following information:(A) The amount of greenhouse gases reduced or carbon sequestered by the proposed project.(B) The duration for which the project will sequester carbon.(C) The location of the proposed project in California.(D) The natural and working landscape type on which the project will occur.(E) The project benefits, including, but not limited to, adaptation to sea level rise, fire, heat, and drought, biodiversity benefits, water security and watershed restoration benefits, and benefits to disadvantaged and low-income communities.(F) Whether the proposed project provides greenhouse gas reduction or carbon removal benefits that are real, verifiable, quantifiable, additional, and permanent. This determination shall be verified by a third party accredited by the state board.(b) A monitoring and reporting system for calculating carbon removal or sequestration or greenhouse gas emission reduction benefits that has already been established by the state board for purposes of receiving state funding from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund shall be sufficient to satisfy the requirements of paragraph (2) of subdivision (a).(c) The Natural Resources Agency shall prioritize the registration of projects that use the latest version of a quantification methodology developed by the state board, where applicable, or an equivalent methodology, approved by the state board.(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 237, Sec. 1. (SB 27) Effective January 1, 2022.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 39740.6 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 26 - AIR RESOURCES|PART 2 - STATE AIR RESOURCES BOARD|CHAPTER 4.3 - Carbon Sequestration|Section 39740.6.

39740.6.  If a state or private entity contacts the Natural Resources Agency and chooses to fund a project on the registry, the Natural Resources Agency shall establish a mechanism for retiring the listing of a project from the registry once it is funded and tracking the outcome of the project to ensure it is completed. The project proponent shall notify the Natural Resources Agency when the project is completed, and shall provide to the agency monitoring and reporting data for the duration of the contract terms of the project.(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 237, Sec. 1. (SB 27) Effective January 1, 2022.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 39740.7 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 26 - AIR RESOURCES|PART 2 - STATE AIR RESOURCES BOARD|CHAPTER 4.3 - Carbon Sequestration|Section 39740.7.

39740.7.  (a) The Natural Resources Agency shall track carbon removal and greenhouse gas emission reduction benefits derived from projects funded through the registry.(b) Projects listed on the registry shall not create credits for the purposes of market-based compliance mechanisms developed or administered by the state board pursuant to the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Division 25.5 (commencing with Section 38500)) and shall not be used by a state or private entity to offset a statutory or regulatory obligation to reduce emissions under the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Division 25.5 (commencing with Section 38500)).(c) If an entity funds less than the full project cost, or if several entities jointly fund a single project, the agency may assign project value proportionally across multiple project funders.(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 237, Sec. 1. (SB 27) Effective January 1, 2022.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 39740.8 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 26 - AIR RESOURCES|PART 2 - STATE AIR RESOURCES BOARD|CHAPTER 4.3 - Carbon Sequestration|Section 39740.8.

39740.8.  The Natural Resources Agency may contract with a third-party organization to develop and operate the registry.(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 237, Sec. 1. (SB 27) Effective January 1, 2022.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 39750 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 26 - AIR RESOURCES|PART 2 - STATE AIR RESOURCES BOARD|CHAPTER 4.5 - Rice Straw Demonstration Project|Section 39750.

39750.  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the Connelly-Areias-Chandler Rice Straw Burning Reduction Act was enacted in 1991 to phase down rice straw burning and improve the air quality for the citizens of the state. This creates an additional significant cost to rice growers, with potential adverse impacts on the farming communities, including lost farm production; lost state, local, and federal tax revenues; lost jobs; and reduction of wildlife habitat in the rice fields. The commercial technologies that could utilize straw, making it a commodity rather than a waste disposal problem, have not developed in the rice growing areas because of the lack of marketplace risk capital to take technologies from the laboratory stage to demonstration projects. To retain the public benefits from having a viable rice growing industry in California and to improve air quality, there is a need to provide cost-sharing grants for the development of demonstration projects for new rice straw technologies in the marketplace.(Added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 745, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1998.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 39751 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 26 - AIR RESOURCES|PART 2 - STATE AIR RESOURCES BOARD|CHAPTER 4.5 - Rice Straw Demonstration Project|Section 39751.

39751.  The Rice Straw Demonstration Project Grant Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. The fund shall be administered by the state board for the purpose of developing demonstration projects for new rice straw technologies in the rice straw growing regions of California.(Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 1019, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2001.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 39752 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 26 - AIR RESOURCES|PART 2 - STATE AIR RESOURCES BOARD|CHAPTER 4.5 - Rice Straw Demonstration Project|Section 39752.

39752.  The state board shall provide cost-sharing grants for the development of demonstration projects for new rice straw technologies according to criteria developed by the state board, in consultation with the University of California and the Department of Food and Agriculture, and adopted at a noticed public hearing held by the state board. The criteria shall include, but shall not be limited to, all of the following:(a) Proposed projects shall use a technology that could use significant volumes of rice straw annually if it is commercialized, based upon various factors, including potential markets and viability of the technology in meeting market demands.(b) The state board shall provide a grant of not more than 50 percent of the cost for each demonstration project.(c) Public and private support shall be demonstrated for proposed projects, including local community support from the rice growing community where the project would be located.(d) The grants shall be authorized and allocated during the 2000–01, 2001–02, and 2002–03 fiscal years. Grants may be expended, under the grant agreement, during a period not to exceed three years from the date that the grant is awarded.(e) Preference shall be given to projects located within the rice growing regions of the Sacramento Valley and which may be replicated throughout the region.(f) Projects should demonstrate all of the following:(1) Technical and economic feasibility.(2) The capability to become profitable within five years.(3) Cost-effectiveness.(4) The extent to which the program mitigates or avoids adverse environmental impacts.(g) This section shall not become operative until moneys are appropriated for deposit in the Rice Straw Demonstration Project Grant Fund, created pursuant to Section 39751, by the Legislature, or until moneys are transferred to that fund by any other entity.(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 225, Sec. 51. Effective August 16, 2004. Operation of provisions is contingent upon funding, as prescribed in subd. (g).)
CA Health & Safety Code § 39753 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 26 - AIR RESOURCES|PART 2 - STATE AIR RESOURCES BOARD|CHAPTER 4.5 - Rice Straw Demonstration Project|Section 39753.

39753.  It is the intent of the Legislature that funding for purposes of this chapter be provided in the annual Budget Act. The state board may use not more than 10 percent of the rice straw technology demonstration cost-sharing funds for administrative and project review costs in carrying out the grant program.(Added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 745, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1998.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 39760 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 26 - AIR RESOURCES|PART 2 - STATE AIR RESOURCES BOARD|CHAPTER 4.7 - Agricultural Biomass Utilization Account|Section 39760.

39760.  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the rice industry has led many other commodity groups in developing alternatives to open-field burning. In order to aid in the continuation of this role of leadership within the agricultural industry and to enable the transition to a free-market utilization of biomass, funds are needed to provide grants to persons that utilize agricultural biomass and rice straw.(Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 1017, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2001.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 39761 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 26 - AIR RESOURCES|PART 2 - STATE AIR RESOURCES BOARD|CHAPTER 4.7 - Agricultural Biomass Utilization Account|Section 39761.

39761.  For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms mean:(a)  “Department” means the Department of Food and Agriculture. (b)  “Secretary” means the Secretary of Food and Agriculture. (Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 1017, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2001.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 39762 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 26 - AIR RESOURCES|PART 2 - STATE AIR RESOURCES BOARD|CHAPTER 4.7 - Agricultural Biomass Utilization Account|Section 39762.

39762.  (a) (1) The Agricultural Biomass Utilization Account is hereby created in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund.(2) The sum of two million dollars ($2,000,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Agricultural Biomass Utilization Account for expenditure for the purposes identified in subdivision (b).(b) The account shall be administered by the department, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board and the California Integrated Waste Management Board, for the purpose of providing grants to persons that utilize agricultural biomass as a means of avoiding landfill use, preventing air pollution, and enhancing environmental quality.(c) Moneys in the account shall include moneys transferred from the General Fund pursuant to subdivision (a) and any moneys solicited by the secretary from other sources.(d) The secretary shall actively solicit funds from other federal, state, and private sources with the goal of initially supplementing and eventually supplanting the appropriation from the General Fund made pursuant to subdivision (a).(e) The department may implement similar grant programs for other commodity groups that are used for the purposes set forth in paragraphs (1) to (6), inclusive, of subdivision (e) of Section 39763.(f) The department shall not utilize more than 7 percent of the funds described in subdivision (a) for the administration of the account.(Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 1017, Sec. 1. Appropriation in subdivision (a) reduced by Governor's item-veto message. Effective January 1, 2001. Note: Subd. (a) of this text reflects the Governor's reduction from $10,000,000 to $2,000,000.)