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City of Santa Ana California Climate Change Policy Environmental Checklist On June 1, 2005, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Executive Order S-3-05, the goal of which is to reduce California's GHG emissions to (1) 2000 levels by 2010, (2) 1990 levels by 2020, and (3) 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. In 2006, this goal was further reinforced with the passage of Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. AB 32 sets the same overall GHG emissions reduction goals while further mandating that ARB create a plan, which includes market mechanisms, and implement rules to achieve "real, quantifiable, cost-effective reductions of greenhouse gases." In response to the state's efforts to reduce GHG emissions, the Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA) created the Climate Action Team (CAT), which, in March 2006, published the first Climate Action Team Report to Governor Schwarzenegger and the Legislature (the "2006 CAT Report"). The 2006 CAT Report identifies a recommended list of strategies that the state could pursue to reduce climate change GHG emissions. These are strategies that could be implemented by various state agencies to ensure that the Governor's targets are met and can be met with existing authority of the state agencies. Executive Order S-20-06 further directs state agencies to begin implementing AB 32, including the recommendations made by the state's Climate Action Team. In consultation with ARB and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), the California Energy Commission (CEC) established a GHG emission performance standard for local, public- owned electric utilities (pursuant to Senate Bill [SB] 1368). This standard limits the rate of GHG emissions to a level that is no higher than the rate of emissions of GHGs for combined-cycle natural gas base load generation. In October 2007, Governor Schwarzenegger signed SB 97, which required the Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR) to prepare CEQA guidelines for the mitigation of GHG emissions. OPR prepared the proposed revisions to the CEQA Guidelines, which were adopted by the Natural Resources Agency on December 31, 2009, and became effective on March 18, 2010, The latest text from Appendix G of the CEQA Guidelines is included above in the Environmental Checklist of this IS/MND. OPR and the Natural Resources Agency are required to periodically review the guidelines to incorporate new information or criteria adopted by the ARB pursuant to AB 32. South Coast Air Quality Management District To provide guidance to local lead agencies on determining significance for GHG emissions in their CEQA documents, the SCAQMD staff is convening an ongoing GHG CEQA Significance Threshold Working Group. Members of the working group include government agencies implementing CEQA and representatives from various stakeholder groups that provide input to the SCAQMD staff on developing GHG CEQA significance thresholds. On December 5, 2008, the SCAQMD Governing Board adopted the staff proposal for an interim GHG significance threshold of 10,000 metric tons peryear for industrial permitting projects where the SCAQMD is lead agency. The board letter, resolution, interim GHG significance threshold, draft guidance document, and attachments can be found under the Board Agenda Item 31 on the December 5, 2008, Governing Board meeting agenda. No other quantitative thresholds have been developed by SCAQMD that would apply to the proposed project. The Bat Nha Buddhist Meditation Center 3-40 June 2013 Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration ICF 0BZ15.12 31 C-93