AB 40 Mia Bonta's bill.

[Steve Brown]

Hi all,

I would like to request that CFCa (and maybe CCL Alameda) Sign on to support Bonta's AB40 - Community First Coal Review Act. This goes right along with Ben's letter supporting No Coal in Oakland. The Bonta support letter will be updated in the Google drive soon and we can discuss tomorrow at the fun meeting. 

The main issue is to fight the Trump administration's plan to create or expand a bulk coal handling and exporting facility in West Oakland.

I have attached the Bonta Fact Sheet, but here is the summary.

"AB 40 requires a full environmental impact report (EIR)

before any public agency may grant a discretionary

approval for a new or expanded bulk coal handling,

storage, or export facility with a design capacity

exceeding 5 million short tons per year. It also requires

an updated environmental review when the type or

quantity of coal changes materially or when the existing

EIR is 10 or more years old. Where significant air quality

impacts are identified, the bill prohibits EIR certification

unless the project proponent demonstrates enforceable

mitigation measures."

AB40 would require, a full EIR before any public agency issues discretionary approval of such a facility; a supplemental EIR when the amount or type of coal changes or every 10 years; and, when air quality impacts are identified, the EIR may not be certified unless project proponents show correct mitigation measures reducing fine and coarse particulates. 

These are precisely the environmental issues we as a group are charged with advocating. The legiscan website did not have info on the hearing that was supposed to be on June17th in the Senate, so I assume we still have time.

Steve