South Coast Air Quality Management District

California Fuel Cell Partnership Steering Team Meeting

SYNOPSIS:

This report summarizes the California Fuel Cell Partnership Steering Team meeting held July 16-17, 2002.

COMMITTEE:

Technology, August 23, 2002. Less than a quorum was present during the discussion of this item; the Chairman communicated his concurrence and recommendation that this item be forwarded for Board consideration with no approval or disapproval recommendation from the Committee.

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Receive and file.

Cynthia Verdugo-Peralta
SCAQMD Governing Board

CALIFORNIA FUEL CELL PARTNERSHIP

Summary of Steering Team Meeting
July 16-17, 2002

Pan Pacific Hotel
300-999 Canada Place
Vancouver, BC V6C 3B5
 

Steering Team

Andreas Truckenbrodt, Ballard Power Systems, Inc

Members Attending:

Lauren Segal, BP Alan Lloyd, California Air Resources Board Jim Boyd, California Energy Commission  Bob Dempsey for Greg Vesey, ChevronTexaco Ferdinand Panik, DaimlerChrysler Bill Innes, ExxonMobil John Wallace, Ford TH!NK Mobility LLC Alan Weverstad, General Motors Ben Knight, Honda R&D Americas Inc. Won-Suk Cho, Hyundai America Technical Center Hideyuki Tamura for Tarou Hagiwara, Nissan Motor Brad Smith for Don Huberts, Shell Hydrogen B.V. Cynthia Verdugo-Peralta, South Coast AQMD Kyo Hattori, Toyota Motor Corporation Tom Gross, U.S. Department of Energy George Whitney for Ellen Engleman, U.S. DOT Chris Grundler for Margot Otay, U.S. EPA Dan Kelly, United Technologies Company (UTC) Fuel Cells Stuart Johnson, Volkswagen of America Inc.

SUMMARY OF AGENDA ITEMS

The July 16-17, 2002 Steering Team meeting included a welcome to new Steering Team member U.S. EPA, an update on Freedom Car and Fuel Cell Vehicle Report to Congress by DOE, and status reports of ongoing activities. After the meeting adjourned, a tour of Cellex Power Facility was hosted by Methanex.

Decisions made include:

• Narrative Plan for the CaFCP post-2003 with amendments approved and referred to a working group for development of detailed goals and objectives.
   
• Safety team mission statement approved with amendment.
   
• Approved CaFCP approach for addressing codes and standards issues, and International Code Council Consensus statement with amendments.
   
• Approved concept of Open House event at CaFCP in West Sacramento during Earth Week in April 2003 and partner with EVAA conference EVS-20 in Long Beach, CA in November 2003.
   
• Approved the mobile gaseous hydrogen fueling proposal with CaFCP shared funding, fueling proposal for Road Rally event in September with CaFCP shared funding and from cost-savings from other activities, and the Richmond fueling station as a CaFCP satellite station with safety management strategy and disclaimer language for Fueling Interface document.
   
• Approved holding January 2003 Steering Team meeting in Palm Springs, hosted by AQMD with tour of Sunline.
   
• The CaFCP ST members decided to turn down any requests for endorsements, as the CaFCP does not want to become an endorsement body. If any of the individual members wish to endorse any entity, they may do so independent of the CaFCP.

Other items:

• Convene Post-2003 volunteer member working group to develop detailed goals and objectives to implement the approved narrative post-2003 Plan for consideration by the Post-2003 Plan Steering Team and the CaFCP Steering Team at their next meetings.
   
• Post-2003 working group will consider all future sites for additional fueling in conjunction with developing detailed goals and objectives to implement the narrative post-2003 Plan.
   
• Fuels team to report on progress of Richmond satellite station at next CaFCP Steering Team meeting.
   
• USEPA will report on current status of fuel cell vehicle modeling benefits at the next CaFCP Steering Team Meeting.
   
• Each CaFCP member is requested to provide a codes and standards contact for their organization.

The next CaFCP Steering Team meeting is scheduled for October 29-30, 2002 in Sacramento. CaFCP members are invited to attend a CARB/DOE organized International Transportation Fuel Cell Summit scheduled to be held October 28, 2002 in Sacramento.

Additional information about the California Fuel Cell Partnership can be found at http://www.fuelcellpartnership.org.

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