On Monday, January 7 at 1:00 pm in Red Bluff; ACL urges you to attend a CARB workshop on agriculture equipment: support money incentives, oppose costly and dangerous regulations, warn about fire risk of logging equipment retrofits and seek replacement of equipment “on our timeline, not theirs”
CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD(CARB) WORKSHOP
WHEN:
MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 2019
1:00 PM TO 3:00 PM
WHERE:
TEHAMA COUNTY AIR POLLUTION CONTROL DISTRICT OFFICE
1834 WALNUT STREET
RED BLUFF, CALIFORNIA 96080
Associated California Loggers board members and staff have been working with the California Air Resources Board(CARB) for years, and we have argued for more meetings and hearings in the more rural parts of the state. The one we had in Redding a few years ago sent a clear message to the board and was instrumental in getting us relief from mandatory off road emission reductions. The one that is coming up on Monday, January 7 in Red Bluff will be an important one to attend. The topic is “agricultural equipment” but that includes logging equipment. The workshop is designed to discuss possible money being made available towards the purchase of logging equipment in 2019 and beyond, but the financial and wildfire dangers of any regulation that would force loggers to replace their equipment prematurely with dangerous retrofits, may be on the agenda.
ACL believes that the message that CARB needs to hear is: provide incentive money for emission reductions and allow us to update our equipment on our schedule, not theirs. We need to stress the very real potential of starting fires with any attempt to retrofit existing equipment and the fact that, for many of us, a mandate to update our logging equipment on top of the truck component will simply put us out of business.
ACL believes that with incentive money (as hoped for from CARB’s “FARMER” Program for the Replacement of Agriculture Equipment) and no mandatory time line we can become compliant over time without the increased potential of more fires in the forest and the loss of many living wage jobs.
ACL also believes that if we do not get a good turn out when these opportunities avail themselves CARB will not travel up to rural California where they hear the unfiltered truth about the impacts of these regulations. The more people that show interest, the more likely staff are to hold additional workshops in r rural areas.
As of right now, ACL President Hardie Tatum, Executive Director Eric Carleson, and numerous ACL Board Members (including Past Presidents) are intending to travel to Red Bluff on Monday January 7, to attend and likely testify at this workshop.
You are urged to attend. You do not have to speak, but you can if you want to.
INFORMATION BELOW:
A Public Workshop on the “FUNDING AGRICULTURAL REPLACEMENT MEASURES FOR EMISSION REDUCTIONS (FARMER) PROGRAM)” is scheduled at the Tehama Air Pollution Control District on Jan 7, 2019 from 1pm -3pm. Here is the link: https://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/mailouts/msc1821/msc1821.pdf.
The Tehama County Air Pollution District office is in Red Bluff. Again, here is further information on the day,date and time of the workshop on January 7:
WHEN:
Monday, January 7, 2019
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
WHERE:
TEHAMA COUNTY AIR POLLUTION CONTROL DISTRICT OFFICE
1834 WALNUT STREET
RED BLUFF, CALIFORNIA 96080