SACRAMENTO, California — California air quality officials are warning state lawmakers that a pair of bills to amend the state’s rules for harbor vessels could jeopardize a federal authorization needed to enforce the entire regulation.
The California Air Resources Board is raising the possibility that two Assembly measures introduced as gut-and-amends in the Senate in June and July — AB 1122 by Assemblymember Jasmeet Bains and AB 1296 by Assemblymember Tim Grayson — would change CARB’s emissions rules for boats in harbors enough that the agency would have to resubmit a request to EPA for permission to enforce stricter-than-federal air standards.
The California Air Resources Board is raising the possibility that two Assembly measures — AB 1122 by Assemblymember Jasmeet Bains and AB 1296 by Assemblymember Tim Grayson — would change CARB’s emissions rules for boats in harbors enough that the agency would have to resubmit a request to EPA for permission to enforce stricter-than-federal air standards.
The bills are scheduled for a hearing Thursday in the Assembly Transportation Committee, which confirmed they could delay federal approval of the rules.
