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3.0 ENVIRONMENTAL CHECKLIST <br />City of San Leandro 1388 Bancroft Avenue Project <br />November 2018 Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration <br />3.0-37 <br />TABLE 3.7-2 <br />CALIFORNIA STATE CLIMATE CHANGE LEGISLATION <br />Legislation Description <br />Assembly Bill 1493 and <br />Advanced Clean Cars <br />Program <br />Assembly Bill 1493 (the Pavley Standard) (Health and Safety Code Sections 42823 and <br />43018.5) aims to reduce GHG emissions from noncommercial passenger vehicles and light- <br />duty trucks of model years 2009–2016. By 2025, when all rules will be fully implemented, <br />new automobiles will emit 34 percent fewer CO2e emissions and 75 percent fewer smog- <br />forming emissions. <br />Applicability to the project: Would help reduce GHG emissions from project residents’ <br />vehicle trips. <br />Low Carbon Fuel <br />Standard (LCFS) <br />Executive Order S-01-07 (2007) requires a 10 percent or greater reduction in the average <br />fuel carbon intensity for transportation fuels in California. The regulation took effect in 2010 <br />and is codified at Title 17, California Code of Regulations, Sections 95480–95490. The LCFS <br />will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by reducing the carbon intensity of transportation <br />fuels used in California by at least 10 percent by 2020. <br />Applicability to the project: Would help reduce GHG emissions from project residents’ <br />vehicle trips. <br />Renewables Portfolio <br />Standard <br />(Senate Bill X1-2 & <br />Senate Bill 350) <br />California’s Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) requires retail sellers of electric services to <br />increase procurement from eligible renewable energy resources to 33 percent of total retail <br />sales by 2020. The 33 percent standard is consistent with the RPS goal established in the <br />Scoping Plan. The passage of Senate Bill 350 in 2015 updates the RPS to require the amount <br />of electricity generated and sold to retail customers per year from eligible renewable energy <br />resources to be increased to 50 percent by December 31, 2030. The bill will make other <br />revisions to the RPS program and to certain other requirements on public utilities and <br />publicly owned electric utilities. <br />Applicability to the project: The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is the electricity <br />provider in San Leandro. The RPS may indirectly help reduce GHG emissions associated <br />with the project’s energy demand. <br />Senate Bill 375 a <br />SB 375 (codified in the Government Code and the Public Resources Code) took effect in <br />2008 and established a new planning process to coordinate land use planning, regional <br />transportation plans, and funding priorities in order to help California meet the GHG <br />reduction goals established in AB 32. SB 375 requires metropolitan planning organizations <br />(MPOs) to incorporate a Sustainable Communities Strategy in their Regional Transportation <br />Plans that will achieve GHG emissions reduction targets by reducing vehicle miles traveled <br />from light-duty vehicles through the development of more compact, complete, and efficient <br />communities. <br />Applicability to the project: Plan Bay Area 2040, the regional Sustainable Communities <br />Strategy, implements the requirements of SB 375.