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The Honorable Joe Simitian Chair, Senate Environmental Quality State Capitol, Room 2080 Sacramento, CA 95814 Re: AB 1620 (Arambula): Support Letter Dear Senator Simitian: I write to express my support for AB 1620, a measure to provide assistance to clean tech developers and inventors. AB 1620 establishes the California Clean Technology Services Unit (CCTSU) within the Business, Transportation, and Housing Agency (BT&H) designed to promote the development of environmentally-friendly technologies, facilitate businesses in bringing clean technology to California, and coordinate efforts between state agencies that encourage clean technology development that meets the state's environmental goals and standards. Through the creation of the CCTSU, California can effectively coordinate its efforts among its appropriate agencies to assist inventors, entrepreneurs, and investors in understanding the state's evolving regulatory framework on clean technologies. Specifically, the CCTSU shall assist businesses in bringing innovative clean technologies to market by assisting firms in understanding California's evolving statutory and regulatory standards relating to carbon and other greenhouse gases. Additionally, the CCTSU shall work in coordination with state regulatory boards, commissions and agencies' to support an innovative and entrepreneurial environment that encourages the development of new and cleaner technologies that meet and exceed the state's environmental goals and standards. Public investments in California's clean technology industry are necessary if California is to reach its potential as a global clean technology cluster. AB 1620 provides a focused approach in supporting this tremendous opportunity for growth.