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AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency/Air Resources Board

TITLE: Low Carbon Fuel Standard

PROPOSED: 03/06/2009

ADOPTED: 04/15/2010

SUMMARY: Amends rules pertaining to the low carbon fuel standard (LCFS), which is intended to reduce, on a full-fuel, life-cycle basis, the carbon intensity of transportation fuels used in California. Reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by reducing the carbon intensity of transportation fuels used in California by an average of 10 percent by the year 2020. Includes an opt-in provision for certain alternative fuels that have full fuel-cycle carbon intensities that inherently meet the proposed requirements through 2020. Exempts any fuel that is not biomass-based or renewable biomass-based and for which the aggregated volume by all parties for that fuel is less than 420 mega-Joules per year. Full text.

AGENCY CONTACT: Amy Whiting, Air Resources Board, 916-322-6533

CITATION: Title 17 CCR Sec(s) 95480, 95480.1, 95481, 95482, 95483, 95484, 95485, 95786, 95487, 95488, 95489, 95490

STATUS:    
04/15/2010 Adopted Rule Correction
Effective Date: 04/15/2010
No. 18, California Regulatory Notice Register 04/30/2010 p.656