Accelerating the Production of Zero-Emission Medium Duty/Heavy Duty Vehicle Repower Kits
Summary
SCH Number
2024070674
Public Agency
California Energy Commission
Document Title
Accelerating the Production of Zero-Emission Medium Duty/Heavy Duty Vehicle Repower Kits
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
7/17/2024
Document Description
The purpose of this project is to fund the design and build-out of Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) pilot lines for a repower kit that enables the conversion of diesel medium duty and heavy duty (MD/HD) trucks to Electric Vehicles (EV). This kit includes all required technical components, packaging, and instructions for electrification. This project will also benefit disadvantaged communities by providing skills training and technologically advanced jobs, as well as reducing air pollution through the reduction of diesel truck traffic in such communities. California ratepayers will benefit from a lower-cost MD/HD electric vehicle, and this project will also benefit residents in areas subject to pollution from fossil-fueled MD/HD vehicles.
Contact Information
Name
Lindsey Fransen
Agency Name
California Energy Commission
Job Title
Energy Resources Specialist III
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Alameda, Riverside, Santa Fe Springs
Counties
Alameda, Los Angeles, Riverside
Regions
Citywide, Countywide
Cross Streets
Monarch St, W Tower Ave
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, § 15301
Reasons for Exemption
Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, Section 15301 provides that projects which consist of the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of existing public and private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features, and which involve negligible or no expansion of use beyond that existing at the time of the lead agency's determination, are categorically exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act. This project will involve the design and build-out of low-rate initial production (LRIP) pilot lines for a repower kit that enables the conversion of diesel medium duty & heavy duty (MD/HD) trucks to electric vehicles. The project's activities are limited and contained within pre-existing facilities that will likely be upgraded to comply with all requirements needed to implement the production process. While in these sites, work completed under this project will not result in a serious or major disturbance to an environmental resource, and any additional accessory structures will be minor in nature. For those reasons, the proposed work will not have any significant effect on the environment and is exempt under Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, Section 15301.
Additionally, the project will not impact an environmental resource of hazardous or critical concern where designated, precisely mapped, and officially adopted pursuant to law by federal, state, or local agencies; does not involve any cumulative impacts of successive projects of the same type in the same place that might be considered significant; does not involve unusual circumstances that might have a significant effect on the environment; will not result in damage to scenic resources within a highway officially designated as a state scenic highway; the project sites are not included on any list compiled pursuant to Government Code section 65962.5; and the project will not cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of a historical resource. Therefore, none of the exceptions to categorical exemptions listed in CEQA Guidelines section 15300.2 apply to this project, and this project will not have a significant effect on the environment.
County Clerks
Alameda, Los Angeles, Riverside
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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