§ 44287.2

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(a)By July 1, 2017, the state board shall revise project grant criteria and guidelines pursuant to Section 44287 to allow funds from federal, state, and local programs or other public funding sources to be used for a project also funded under this chapter without those additional public funds being factored into the criteria emission reduction cost-effectiveness calculations, if the projects are eligible under those programs and meet all criteria associated with those funding sources. Those other projects include, but are not limited to, any of the following:

(1)Federal funding from programs designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

(2)State and local funding from programs designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, created pursuant to Section 16428.8 of the Government Code, and the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (Article 2 (commencing with Section 44272) of Chapter 8.9).

(3)Funding from programs designed to support energy diversity.

(4)Funding from programs that are intended to provide covered emissions reductions but do not require those reductions to be able to be credited to the state implementation plan.

(b)Nothing in this section authorizes the expenditure of funds for a project that does not meet all of the requirements of this chapter, including requirements that require cost sharing or the matching of funds. The sum of the total grants shall not exceed the project cost. The covered emissions reductions paid for pursuant to this chapter shall not be claimed by the other funding sources.

(c)Subdivision

(a)shall not apply to funds used pursuant to paragraph

(2)of subdivision

(d)of Section 41081 or subdivision

(b)of Section 44229.