BILL NUMBER: SCR 38INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senators Wright and Cox (Coauthors: Assembly Members Garrick and Miller) APRIL 23, 2009 Relative to the State Air Resources Board. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SCR 38, as introduced, Wright. Gasoline: vapor recovery systems. This measure would request a delay in enforcement of the State Air Resources Board's Enhanced Vapor Recovery Phase II requirements until October 2010. Fiscal committee: no. WHEREAS, The State Air Resources Board adopted requirements, effective April 1, 2009, requiring the installation of Enhanced Vapor Recovery gas pumps; and WHEREAS, The State Air Resources Board estimates that the cost of this new equipment is approximately eleven thousand dollars ($11,000) per pump or seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) per gas station; and WHEREAS, Funding to obtain this equipment has been scarce due to the recession; and WHEREAS, The enforcement of these requirements at this time will adversely effect the economy; and WHEREAS, No equipment to comply with the requirements was approved until 2007, seven years after the regulation that created the requirement was adopted; and WHEREAS, The most recent approval for the least expensive equipment did not take place until October 2008, six months before the enforcement deadline; and WHEREAS, As many as 60 percent of the gas stations in the state have not yet installed the necessary equipment; and WHEREAS, Forcing non-compliant gas stations to close will cause hardship to the owners, employees, and the communities they serve; and WHEREAS, A mass closure of gas stations will cause fuel shortages and longer lines for gas; and WHEREAS, Independent owners are significantly impacted by the credit crunch; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly thereof concurring, That the Legislature requests a delay in enforcement of the State Air Resources Board's Enhanced Vapor Recovery Phase II requirements until October 2010 to allow gas stations sufficient time to acquire the capital or loans needed to purchase the required equipment without additional hardship on small businesses and their communities; and be it further Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.