Living Healthy, Breathing Easy

BAY AREA AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT 2010 Annual Report Contributors

Communications and Outreach Director Lisa Fasano

Community Outreach Manager Ana Sandoval

Communications Supervisor KRISTINE ROSELIUS

Project Coordinator/Editor Aaron Richardson

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SAN RAFAEL Contact SAN PABLO Table of Contents CONCORD General Business (415) 749-5000 Public Information (415) 749-4900 03 Introduction: by Jack P. Broadbent

Compliance Assistance (415) 749-4999 LIVERMORE 04 Celebrating: 20th Anniversary of “Spare the Air” Program Engineering Services (415) 749-4990 SAN FRANCISCO 06 Our History: Websites FREMONT Charting Our History of Reducing Bay Area Pollutants www.baaqmd.gov REDWOOD CITY 08 Looking Closely: www.sparetheair.org SAN JOSE Measuring and Analyzing Air Quality www.twitter.com/@sparetheair 12 Encouraging Clean Air: www.facebook.com/sparetheair Providing Incentives to Reduce Air Quality INFO 14 Building Bridges: GILROY (800) HELP AIR (435-7247) Encouraging Clean Air Choices Through Public Education • Daily Air Quality Forecasts 16 Setting the Bar: • Spare the Air Alerts Implementing Standards, Guidelines, • Agricultural Burn Days and Rules for Clean Air 19 Providing Guidance: Report Smoking Vehicles Controlling Sources of Pollution (800) EXHAUST (394-2878) • www.SmokingVehicleHelp.org and Ensuring Compliance 20 Making Connections: Air Pollution Complaints Working with Communities to Improve Air Quality (800) 334-ODOR (6367) 22 Building Momentum: Looking Ahead to the Future Winter Spare the Air Alerts 25 By the Numbers: (877) 4-NO-BURN (466-2876) 2010 Statistics and Charts Jack P. Broadbent Executive Officer Air Pollution Control Officer

The is unique. We are surrounded by breathtaking landscapes and a body of water that gracefully unites this amazing environment. Our region’s temperate climate and scenic beauty, coupled with great opportunity, has attracted people for generations. As a result, our community is as diverse and inspired as the region we live in. All of these factors motivate us at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District as we strive to provide a healthy breathing environment for all those who live, work, and call the Bay Area home. This annual report will introduce you to our agency and explain how our programs have been implemented to reduce local air pollution and protect public health. It will answer questions about how we are organized, why we were created, and what kinds of air pollution are a problem in the Bay Area. The report shows what we do to improve air quality, what our greatest current challenges are, and ultimately, how everyone can play an essential participatory role in the process in which we work to clear the air in the region. In 2011, one of our key outreach programs, Spare the Air, will be celebrating 20 successful years of educating people about air pollution and encouraging them to improve air quality by changing their behavior. For 20 years, we have asked residents to rethink their transportation and wood-burning choices to reduce pollution every day. Thanks in part to Spare the Air, overall pollutant levels have decreased dramatically in the past two decades and the program has become a model initiative for other air quality districts across the country. This year’s report will also showcase the people and organizations who have advanced Unique Challenges the clean air cause by partnering with us or taking advantage of our grants and incentives programs. These people and organizations are the true heroes in the quest for clean air. As the Air District’s Executive Officer, it is my pleasure to present the Bay Area Air Quality for the Bay Area Management District 2010 Annual Report. We hope it will inspire you to join us in the ongoing good work we can all do together to ensure there is clean air to breathe for years to come.

Sincerely,

Jack P. Broadbent Executive Officer Air Pollution Control Officer

2 3 Our Continuing Journey Caring about the air you breathe

Vision Core Values WHO WE ARE A healthy breathing environment Excellence The Bay Area Air Quality Management District The Air District consists of more than 320 for every Bay Area resident. is the public agency entrusted with regulating dedicated staff members, including Air District programs and policies are founded on stationary sources of air pollution in the nine engineers, inspectors, planners, scientists, science, developed with technical expertise, and counties that surround San Francisco Bay: and other professionals. executed with quality. Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mission The Air District is assisted by an Advisory Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, southwestern To protect and improve public Leadership Council that provides input to the Board and Solano, and southern Sonoma counties. health, air quality, and the The Air District will be at the forefront of air quality the Executive Officer on air quality matters. global climate. improvement and will pioneer new strategies to The Air District is governed by a 22-member The Council is made up of 20 representatives achieve healthy air and protect the climate. Board of Directors composed of locally elected from community, health, environmental, and officials from each of the nine Bay Area counties. other organizations. The number of Board members from each county Collaboration An independent, five-member Hearing Board is proportionate to its population. Involving, listening, and engaging all stakeholders, serves to adjudicate regulatory compliance including partner agencies, to create broad The Board oversees policies and adopts regulations issues that may arise between the Air District acceptance for healthy air solutions. for the control of air pollution within the district. and local industries, and also hears appeals of The Board also appoints the Air District’s Executive permitting decisions made by the Executive Officer. Dedication Officer / Air Pollution Control Officer, who

Committed staff that live and believe implements Board policies and gives direction the Air District’s mission. to staff as well as the District Counsel, who manages the legal affairs of the agency. Equity All Bay Area residents have the right to breathe clean air.

D E Celebrating 20th Anniversary of “Spare the Air” Program

This year, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District looks back on 20 years of its successful Spare 1999 2003 2006 Spare the Air expands with support The Air District’s pilot Wood Smoke For the first time Spare the Air offers the Air program. The initiative was started in 1991 to educate people about air pollution and to encourage from federal funding and institutes Rebate Program offers rebates to free rides all day on Spare the Air days them to change their behavior to improve air quality. The following timeline is a testament to the great regular public opinion surveys to Santa Clara County residents for on over 24 Bay Area transit systems. progress that can be made by taking one small step at a time towards cleaner air in the region. measure effectiveness. The program replacing wood-burning stoves and enjoys an 8 percent increase in aware- fireplaces with gas-burning appliances. ness and a 4 percent boost in Alert Day 2007 Free transit available on Spare awareness compared to 1998. Transit agencies see a 23 percent 1990 1993 1996 the Air days on buses in increase in ridership on Spare U.S. Congress passes 1990 federal Air District unveils Spare the Air Livermore-Pleasanton Tri-Valley area. the Air days. Clean Air Act amendments, which website, providing electronic air Free all-day commutes offered on introduce control strategies for toxic quality forecasts to the public. 2000 the first four weekday Spare the Air substances and pollutants. days by 29 local agencies. Spare the Air’s Vehicle Buy-Back 2004 Program is launched with goal of Spare the Air partners with BART Spare the Air’s Smoking Vehicle scrapping approximately 1,800 and the Metropolitan Transportation Program averages 3,000 reports pre-1975 cars. Commission (MTC) to offer free 2008 1991 a month during the hotline’s first Spare the Air Program retools message “Clear Choices for Clean Air” and rides on weekday Spare the Air Alert four months of operation. “Don’t Light Tonight” changes its to Spare the Air Every Day, expanding “Don’t Light Tonight” public outreach days. Bay Area residents who reduce name to “Spare the Air Tonight.” Spare the Air expands its Employer its focus to include climate protection programs launched to voluntarily trips on Alert Days increases from Program to 1,650 companies and in addition to health and air quality. reduce the polluting activities 3 percent to 7 percent. There Air Alert subscribers to 10,000. of individuals. are 24,000 AirAlert subscribers, Air District adopts Wood Smoke Rule 1994 Program awareness at 80 percent and “Don’t Light Tonight” begins offering 575 participating schools, and that restricts wood burning when a Bay Area Clean Air Plan is first 1997 Alert Day awareness at 55 percent. Winter Spare the Air Alert is issued speakers for local clubs, schools, and 2,000 employers. state-mandated ozone reduction from November through February. employee groups. Spare the Air’s Lawn Mower Buy-Back plan to be adopted in California, Program expands and exchanges “Spare the Air Tonight” renamed including all feasible measures Spare the Air’s Smoking Vehicle 1,340 mowers, up from 430 in 1999, “Winter Spare the Air.” to reduce ozone in the Bay Area. Assistance Program increases its becoming the largest lawn mower average reports to 5,000 a month and exchange program in the U.S. results in over 110,000 calls over its first Spare the Air’s Lawn Mower Buy-Back 2009 two years of operation. Spare the Air goes social with a new 1992 Program launches, offering rebates 2004 ends as the cleanest year on Facebook page. “Clear Choices for Clean Air” for cordless electric mulching mowers record for air quality in the Bay Area, officially renamed “Spare the Air.” in exchange for gas-powered mowers, 2001 Spare the Air AirAlert email subscribers Vehicle Buy-Back Program scraps with no exceedances of the federal reach 100,000 Bay Area residents. 1995 which are scrapped. one-hour or eight-hour ozone standards, Spare the Air expands, successfully Spare the Air’s Employer Program totals 10,000th car = 1,500 tons fewer and only seven exceedances of the recruiting over 100 employers to new over 400 participating companies. pollutants in the air. more stringent state standard. Employer Program. 1998 2010 Spare the Air’s Smoking Vehicle Spare the Air’s “Great Stove Changeout” Program launches 1-800-EXHAUST offers rebates to residents who turn in 2002 New Federal PM2.5 standard passed. 2005 hotline for Bay Area residents to their old stoves and fireplace inserts for Free morning commutes offered on Air District begins daily PM2.5 report vehicles with excessive a new, cleaner-burning model. weekday Spare the Air days by 21 local forecasts as new basis for Spare tailpipe emissions. transit agencies, including BART. City and County of San Francisco the Air Tonight advisories. “The Great Race for Clean Air” adopts Bay Area’s first comprehensive Spare the Air’s Vehicle Buy-Back goes Bay Area-wide, encouraging ban on use of polluting garden and Program increases trade-in value employers and employees to help to $650 for eligible 1985 and utility equipment on Spare the Air days. reduce pollution by using alternatives older vehicles. to solo driving.

4 5 Our History Charting Our History of Reducing Bay Area Pollutants

The California Legislature created the Air District in 1955 as the first regional air pollution The first official meeting of the Air District’s significant increases in traffic and population. control agency in the country, recognizing that the problem of harmful air emissions extends Board of Directors was held on November 16, But much remains to be done, as new challenges beyond political boundaries. The nine counties of the San Francisco Bay Area form a regional 1955, in San Francisco. Charged with regulating arise in the Air District’s second half-century air basin, sharing common geographical features and weather patterns, and therefore stationary sources of air emissions, the Air of stewardship of the air we breathe. similar air pollution burdens, which cannot be addressed by counties acting on their own. District set to work on its first two regulations, which banned open burning at dumps and Particulate Matter PM 2.5 Bay Area Historical Exceedances In the early 1950s, the science of air pollution was wrecking yards, and established controls on Bay Area Ozone Trends Number of Days Exceeding the National 24-Hour Standard (35 g/m³) energized by the discovery that ground-level ozone Bay Area Historical Exceedances dust, liquid droplets, and combustion gases 30 Number of Days Exceeding the National 8-Hour Standard (0.075 ppm) was the main chemical in “,” a conjunction of 100 from certain industrial sources. Number of Days Exceeding California 1-Hour Standard (0.09 ppm) “smoke” and “fog” that soon became a household word. Ozone was found to cause breathing problems, Since then, the agency has used its expertise to clear the skies and diminish air pollution levels 15 damage crops, and corrode buildings. Local 50 agriculture in particular absorbed significant throughout the Bay Area. Its actions, along with losses, and it was largely the organized efforts the concentrated efforts of public and private of Bay Area farmers that generated the political organizations and concerned individuals, Days Exceeding Standard Exceeding Days 0

Days Exceeding Standard Exceeding Days 0 will to establish the first regional air district. 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 have dramatically improved air quality, despite 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Laboratory 65 Days above National Ozone Standard Transportation Fund for Spare the Air in the New York Times Clean Air Program Radio Dispatch System Lawn Mower Buyback Program Smog Check Program

Board of Directors Spare the Air on KTVU News Vapor Recovery Control Regulation Vehicle Buyback Program Free Morning Commute Partnership Milton Feldstein, APCO 1979–1996 1961 “Miss Clean Air” Spare the Air Program Hayward Banner

6 7 Summer Sources Winter Sources of Bay Area Ozone- of Bay Area Fine Forming Pollutants (PM2.5) Looking Closely Air Monitoring 33% The Air District maintains one of the most comprehensive air quality monitoring networks in the country, consisting 39% Measuring and Analyzing Air Quality of 27 monitoring stations distributed among the nine Bay Is Our First Step to Reducing Air Pollution OFFROAD Area counties. This network measures concentrations MOBILE of pollutants for which health-based ambient air quality WOOD SOURCES The air in our lower atmosphere is a dynamic, constantly shifting mixture of gases, liquid droplets, standards have been set by the U.S. Environmental SMOKE and small particles. It swirls and eddies around the globe like the water in the ocean, with winds Protection Agency, and by the California Air Resources and weather patterns resulting from this movement. It’s also not as light as it seems. A column of Board, or CARB. These pollutants include ozone, 12% 32% particulate matter, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, air one foot square and extending from sea level to the outer limit of the atmosphere would weigh and sulfur dioxide. The Air District’s network also COOKING nearly one ton. And contrary to what one might expect, the air we breathe in the lower atmosphere ONROAD measures concentrations of 19 toxic air contaminants is not primarily composed of oxygen. Instead, it contains 78 percent nitrogen, 21 percent MOTOR and various other pollutants of concern. oxygen, and less than 1 percent gases like argon and carbon dioxide. Unfortunately, it can also VEHICLES 12% The Air District’s network also includes two portable air contain substances that are unhealthy for us to inhale. 8% monitoring stations similar to those used by CARB under OTHER the Children’s Environmental Health Protection Program. MOBILE In the Bay Area, as in the entire state of California, a in the air. PM can be emitted directly into the air, FUELS These stations are placed in communities of interest for one SOURCES certain amount of air pollution comes from stationary or it can be formed from secondary reactions COMBUSTION to two years, in order to compare local air measurements industrial sources, such as refineries and power involving gaseous pollutants that combine in the with those obtained by the agency’s monitoring network. 12% plants. But a greater percentage of harmful air atmosphere. Particulate pollution is primarily a 8% emissions come from cars and trucks, construction problem in the winter, accumulating when cold, Laboratory equipment, and other mobile sources. California has stagnant weather comes to the Bay Area. ARCHITECTURAL ROAD DUST COATINGS The Air District maintains an extensive laboratory more cars per household (1.8) than any other state, PM is usually measured and monitored in two size with state-of-the-art equipment for testing air quality along with a diverse business community and a 7% distributions: PM10 and PM2.5. PM10 refers to samples collected from ambient monitors, from continually expanding population. All of these factors 8% particles with diameters that are less than or equal source tests, or during accidental releases at Bay Area ON ROAD contribute to the state’s air quality challenges. to 10 microns in size (a micron is one-millionth of a CONSUMER facilities. The laboratory also analyzes samples MOTOR VEHICLES There are three major types of air pollutants that meter), or about 1/7 the diameter of a human hair. PRODUCTS submitted by the Enforcement Division to assess constitute a public health concern for the Bay Area: PM2.5 consists of particles with diameters that are compliance with Air District regulations. 6% ozone, particulate matter, and toxic air contaminants. less than or equal to 2.5 microns in size. PM2.5 is 5% COMBUSTION: a more serious health concern than PM10, since Forecasting AIRCRAFT STATIONARY SOURCES Ozone smaller particles can travel more deeply into our Weather patterns play a fundamental role in determining, lungs and cause more harmful effects. 3% on any given day, whether air pollution will disperse or 5% Ozone is the main ingredient in the pollution accumulate. Air District meteorologists collect and analyze commonly called “smog.” Primarily a problem in Toxic Air Contaminants (TACs) FUELS data from a network of meteorological sensors located INDUSTRIAL/ the summertime, ozone is a colorless gas formed DISTRIBUTION throughout the nine Bay Area counties. This information— COMMERCIAL Toxic Air Contaminants, or TACs, are a category of air through a complex series of photochemical reactions in combination with air monitoring measurements, PROCESSES pollutants that, in relatively small concentrations can 2% involving sunlight and heat. It is not emitted directly computer models, and satellite feeds from weather services— potentially cause serious human health effects, such into the air in significant quantities, but is formed OTHER is used to make daily air quality forecasts for the public. 3% as cancer. The state of California has listed more than INDUSTRIAL/ in the presence of sunlight from chemical reactions 180 TACs, which are emitted by mobile sources such COMMERCIAL The Air District prohibits open burning throughout CONSTRUCTION AND involving other directly released precursor pollutants: FARMING DUST as cars and trucks, large industrial plants such as PROCESSES the Bay Area, with the exception of a few types of fires reactive organic compounds and oxides of nitrogen. refineries and power plants, and smaller facilities 1% (generally for agricultural or natural-resource management 2% such as gas stations and dry cleaners. PM from diesel purposes) that are allowed on designated “burn” days. PETROLEUM The Air District’s meteorological staff issues “burn” or ANIMAL WASTE Particulate Matter exhaust is listed as a TAC by the state of California. REFINING “no-burn” notices for these types of permissible burns FACILITIES 1% (PM10 and PM2.5) The Air District has developed its core programs and every day of the year. Particulate matter, or PM, consists of microscopically implemented special initiatives to provide a flexible WIND BLOWN DUST small solid particles or liquid droplets suspended framework of solutions to air pollution in the Bay Area. 1%

WILDFIRES 8 9 Cleaning Waste Management of Alameda Up County, California, was a 2010 recipient of a Transportation Fund Mohammed AlI for Clean Air grant. The funds Operator were used to purchase 21 new Waste Management, Inc., compressed natural gas transfer San Ramon, CA tractors and 10 new compressed natural gas collection vehicles. An estimated 1,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year will be eliminated using standard pipeline natural gas fuel to operate these vehicles, helping to keep the air clean in Alameda and Contra Costa counties.

10 11 The Lower-Emission School Goods Movement Program Bus Program The emphasis of the Goods Movement Program is to quickly reduce air pollution emissions and health Encouraging Clean Air The Lower-Emission School Bus Program provides risk from freight movement at the Bay Area’s ports financial incentives for school districts to replace and along the region’s major roadways. The Providing Incentives to Reduce Air Pollution or retrofit older diesel-fueled school buses. The program funds the retrofit and replacement of primary goal of this program is to reduce the exposure of schoolchildren to harmful diesel emissions. older, higher-polluting diesel trucks, locomotives, The Air District administers grant and basis, and a portion is used to fund several cargo-handling equipment, and marine vessels, as incentive programs to improve air quality mobile-source emission-reduction programs well as the installation of shore-side power systems. in the Bay Area. directly administered by the Air District, such as the Smoking Vehicle Program. These programs offer funding to public agencies, private companies, and Bay The Mobile Source Area residents for projects that reduce Incentive Fund or eliminate air pollution and greenhouse AB 923, enacted in 2004, authorized local air gases from mobile sources—such as cars, districts to increase their motor vehicle registration trucks, marine vessels, locomotives, surcharge up to an additional $2 per vehicle. and construction equipment. AB 923 stipulates that air districts may use the revenues generated by the additional $2 surcharge In the Bay Area, mobile sources and wood for any of the four programs listed below: burning are the greatest contributors to air pollution. • Projects eligible for grants under the Carl Moyer Program; Transportation Fund • New purchases of clean air school buses; for Clean Air • Accelerated vehicle retirement or repair program; and Assembly Bill 434 authorized the Air District to levy a $4 surcharge on all motor vehicles registered • Projects to reduce emissions from previously in the Bay Area in order to mitigate the impact unregulated agricultural sources. of vehicular emissions. The Air District allocates The revenues from the additional $2 surcharge are these revenues through the Transportation Fund deposited in, and administered via, the Air District’s for Clean Air, or TFCA. Mobile Source Incentive Fund, or MSIF. TFCA revenues are distributed through two separate mechanisms. Forty percent of the TFCA funds, The Carl Moyer Program known as the TFCA County Program Manager Growing The Carl Moyer Program is a state-funded incentive St. Francis Winery was a 2010 recipient Fund, are allocated directly to the region’s nine Green program originally created by the California of an Air District grant through the Carl county congestion management agencies for Legislature to reduce emissions from heavy-duty Moyer Engine Retrofit and Replacement disbursement to eligible projects. The Air District engines. Managed locally by the Air District, the Carl Rex Williams Program in the Agricultural Vehicles distributes the remaining 60 percent, known as Moyer Program provides grants primarily for installing Maintenance & Capital Project Supervisor the TFCA Regional Fund, to eligible projects and new, cleaner engines or emission-control devices and Equipment category. programs that reduce motor vehicle emissions. In in heavy-duty equipment, such as trucks and St. Francis Winery & Vineyards, The 35-year-old winery and vineyard used 2010, eligible projects included trip reduction (e.g., buses, marine vessels, construction equipment, Santa Rosa, CA funds from the grant to replace their older shuttles, ride sharing, and bicycle projects) and locomotives, and agricultural irrigation pumps. model tractors with new cleaner-running alternative fuel vehicle and infrastructure projects. Heavy-duty diesel engines are major sources of versions, helping to reduce pollution in A portion of the TFCA Regional Fund revenues oxides of nitrogen, reactive organic gases, and the Sonoma Valley area. is distributed to project sponsors on a competitive particulate matter.

12 13 Building Bridges Encouraging Clean Air Choices Through Public Education Everyday activities—driving, painting, mowing accessible. The Air District also began a process of the lawn, and even using aerosol hairsprays expanding its social media presence with featured and deodorants—add pollution to the air we messages on Facebook and Twitter. In 2011, the agency will continue to leverage its social media breathe. Many of these activities fall outside outlets by integrating the Spare the Air and the Air District’s regulatory jurisdiction. Smoking Vehicle Facebook and Twitter sites, as However, the Air District encourages Bay well as linking the Facebook site to the more Area residents to “Spare the Air” through traditional Spare the Air website. Finally, the its public education campaigns. Air District expanded its Spare the Air audience by reaching out with a special ad campaign Spare the Air Every Day tailored to the 17-34 year-old demographic. The Spare the Air Every Day program educates the public about air pollution and promotes long-term Winter Spare the Air behavior changes that improve air quality. From The Winter Spare the Air program runs from April to October, the Air District issues Spare the November through February, when particulate Air Alerts on days when ozone pollution is fore- matter from woodstoves and fireplaces becomes cast to be unhealthy. On Spare the Air days, the a major health concern in the Bay Area. The Air District issues Winter Spare the Air Alerts on days Air District urges residents to reduce their driving when air quality is expected to reach unhealthy by walking, biking, taking transit, or carpooling, as levels. Under the Air District’s Wood Burning well as taking steps to lower their energy use Rule, it is illegal for Bay Area residents to use and cut back on pollution. People sensitive to any wood-burning devices, such as fireplaces, pollution, such as children and the elderly, woodstoves, or pellet stoves, when these alerts are cautioned to limit outdoor exposure. are in effect. In 2010, 20 percent of Bay Area households reduced wood burning thanks to this program and 76 percent of residents supported the wood-burning rule. The Air District also called three “voluntary” no burn days to help reduce fine particle build-up and avoid a mandatory no-burn alert. Smoking Vehicle Media Overview for 2010 During the summer of 2010 our Spare the Air campaign Assistance Program To assist owners of smoking vehicles, the Air garnered more than 95 million media impressions. Spare the Air Alerts and daily air quality forecasts District has also established a one-stop website, The Air District’s Smoking Vehicle Assistance Those impressions were due in part to the 350 TV spots are posted on the www.sparetheair.org website, www.SmokingVehicleHelp.org, where owners can Program was implemented to decrease the number aired and the 1,877 traditional and social media stories recorded on the 1 (800) HELP AIR phone line, of vehicles spewing visible tailpipe exhaust on the obtain information about assistance programs for and announced in local media. Bay Area residents presented throughout the year. Also, 2010 media events region’s roads and highways. Residents can report vehicle repair or retirement. can also sign up on the website to be notified via were held to publicize a passenger locomotive retrofit, smoking vehicles by phone to 1 (800) EXHAUST or email AirAlerts. In 2010, a new Smoking Vehicle outreach campaign shoreside power projects for docked ships, electric online at www.800exhaust.org. Owners will be was launched and in 2011 it will be a prominent vehicle charging infrastructure grants, and a “cool roof” In 2010 the Spare the Air website was redesigned notified that their vehicle may be operating illegally feature of our summertime outreach. project at Las Juntas Elementary School in Martinez. to make the site more graphically appealing and and are encouraged to have it checked and repaired.

14 15 Rules are derived from documents like the 2010 Rule Development Clean Air Plan. Rules and rule amendments are Rule development is the Air District’s process the product of extensive technical research, cost of putting into place regulations that limit and environmental analyses, and public input. Setting the Bar emissions of air pollutants from stationary Public participation is an integral element of this sources of pollution, like gas stations and process, and the Air District engages in extensive Implementing Standards, refineries. These rules help the Bay Area meet outreach to both affected industries and members federal and state air quality standards, reduce of the public. Draft rules are reviewed at public Guidelines, and Rules for Clean Air risk caused by emissions, and improve public workshops, and comments are considered and health. The Air District’s rules are adopted by integrated prior to proposing final rules to the Board. introduces two new categories of control Air quality planning is an evolving process— the Board of Directors at public hearings which measures: for land use and local impacts, and A current list of the Air District’s rules and are open for public comment. the Air District continually updates and energy and climate. Measures relating to land use regulations is available at www.baaqmd.gov. refines its rules to meet the highest clean and local impacts promote mixed-use, compact air standards. development to reduce motor vehicle travel and emissions, and to ensure that the region plans Air Quality Standards for focused growth in a way that protects people from exposure to air pollution from stationary and PLANning The Air District’s regulations and programs are mobile sources of emissions. Measures relating to Ahead Tom Rivard and Jessica Range work source causing adverse respiratory formally guided by a set of federal and state air energy and climate protect our climate by reducing on the Community Risk Reduction Plan health problems for people living quality standards that establish health-based greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions. Tom Rivard for San Francisco in collaboration with near the highway. concentration limits for specific pollutants, Technical Planning Manager, Air District staff. The area featured in including ozone and particulate matter. Bay Area Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (2010) Health Hazard Assessment Group Tom and Jessica are working on the photo is in the Excelsior District solutions to mitigate pollution and When an air district meets these standards, its 7% 1% City of San Francisco of San Francisco which was divided 37% 36% 16% 7% 3% noise in the area, helping to create region is considered to be in attainment for a Department of Public Health by construction of Highway 280 many given pollutant category. If it does not meet these Industrial/Commercial Residential Fuel Usage San Francisco, CA a healthier and more liveable years ago. standards, the air district is required to outline Transportation Off-Road Equipment environment for residents closest Electricity/Co-Generation Agriculture/Farming Jessica Range measures designed to reduce emissions and Policy Planning High traffic volume has been identified to this high-traffic corridor. bring its region into attainment. as the area’s number one air pollution CEQA Guidelines City of San Francisco In June 2010, the Air District updated its California Planning Department Bay Area Clean Air Plan Environmental Quality Act Guidelines and revised its San Francisco, CA In September 2010, the Air District adopted the Bay recommended air quality thresholds of significance. Area 2010 Clean Air Plan, an update to the Bay Area The California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, 2005 Ozone Strategy. The Plan was developed in requires that state and local public agencies review association with the Air District’s regional agency the potential environmental impacts of projects that partners, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, they carry out, fund, or approve. Last updated in 1999, the Association of Bay Area Governments, and the the Air District’s CEQA Guidelines are intended to San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development help local jurisdictions identify and mitigate potential Commission. The Plan includes a review of air quality air quality impacts of such projects. progress to date in the Bay Area and control strategies for achieving California’s ozone standards. For the The updated CEQA Guidelines contain thresholds first time, the Air District took a multi-pollutant of significance for air emissions stemming approach by addressing ozone, particulate matter, from construction and operations of development air toxics, and greenhouse gas emission reductions projects and plans. The new and revised in a single integrated plan. The primary purpose thresholds set levels for emissions of criteria of the Plan is to protect air quality, public health, pollutants, toxic air contaminants, odors, and and the climate. for the first time, greenhouse gases. The CEQA The Bay Area 2010 Clean Air Plan includes new, Guidelines also outline assessment methodolo- revised, and updated control measures in the gies and mitigation strategies. As part of the three traditional categories of stationary sources, update process, the Air District met with lo- cleaner mobile source engines and fuels, and cal governments, held public workshops, and transportation strategies to promote carpooling, developed resources to assist lead agencies in transit, bicycling, and walking. The Plan also using the CEQA Guidelines.

16 17 protecting Providing Guidance Our Skies The Bay Area Air Quality Controlling Sources of Pollution Management District helps control pollution through and Ensuring Compliance a variety of methods, including: • Issuing Permits Permits Compliance and Enforcement • Health Risk The Air District evaluates permit applications The Air District’s Compliance and Enforcement Screening Analyses and issues permits for stationary emission Division ensures a high degree of compliance with sources and abatement devices to comply with air quality-related federal, state, and Air District • Site Inspections regulatory conditions, including requirements laws, regulations, and permit conditions. A full • Complaint Response to use the Best Available Control Technology or range of educational and compliance assistance provide emissions offsets. The Air District Permit activities are provided to help companies and • Penalty Assessments Program is also responsible for emissions residents proactively comply with air quality • Industry Compliance banking and interchangeable emission reduction regulations. Air quality inspectors investigate air Schools credit activities in the Bay Area, as well as pollution complaints from the public and conduct regular compliance inspections to promote compliance • Source Testing California Environmental Quality Act review for permitted sources. with air quality regulations. When violations of air • Incentives quality regulations are discovered, the Air District Permit applications evaluated by the Air District provides an appropriate level of enforcement action include those for Prevention of Significant to expedite return to compliance and assesses Deterioration, Acid Rain, and federal Title V permits. monetary penalties to provide an effective deterrence. The federal Title V Permit Program enhances compliance with the Clean Air Act by explicitly including all applicable federal, state, and local air quality requirements into a single permit.

Toxics The Air District’s Toxics Evaluation Program integrates federal and state laws and regulations concerning toxic air contaminants into the Air District’s permit program. As part of its permit process, the Air District performs health risk screening analyses for all new projects in the region that require air quality permits and emit Source Test toxic air contaminants in quantities greater than The Air District monitors emissions from facilities de minimis levels. The Air District also inventories with stationary pollution sources. The Air District’s existing commercial and industrial sources of toxic SourceTest staff collect samples that can usually be air contaminants. Facilities that emit significant analyzed on-site with instrumentation in specially quantities of toxic air contaminants are required outfitted vans. An immediate determination can to prepare health risk assessments that estimate typically be made as to whether or not emissions the facility’s health risks for local residents and are in compliance with Air District regulations and offsite workers. A facility that is determined to permit conditions. The Air District also conducts pose an unacceptable health risk must implement source tests in support of its Rule Development measures to reduce risks to acceptable levels. and Emission Inventory efforts.

18 19 Making Connections Working with Communities to Improve Air Quality

Each of the Bay Area’s nine counties is made up Community Resource Teams of smaller communities and neighborhoods The Air District collaborates with community- with unique air quality concerns. It is the based resource teams comprising members from business, government, and nonprofit Air District’s job to adopt rules and policies organizations that work on projects to improve that are fair and equitable to all residents air quality at the local level. of the Bay Area, and to ensure that In 2010 Air District Resource Teams worked on community-level air pollution problems are various projects, including: not eclipsed by larger-scale policy issues. • Planning home energy conservation workshops for low-income residents. Community Outreach • The Great Race for Clean Air promotional TEAM As part of our community outreach program, event—a friendly competition among Bay Area Alicia Collins works on the San Francisco the Air District organizes and facilitates meetings employers to encourage employees to use Work Community Resource Team and Connie McGee that provide an opportunity for local residents to commute alternatives such as transit, carpooling, works on the Peninsula Community Resource vanpooling, walking, and bicycling rather than share and receive information about air quality- Alicia Collins Team, both of which help promote alternatives driving solo to work. Over the months of August related topics. Through these meetings the Air Senior Staff—Environmental, to solo driving on a grassroots level. Some of and September, participants together saved Health & Safety Specialist District provides information and seeks input on over 900 tons of CO by using alternatives to the programs the two have been involved with 2 Nektar Therapeutics, pending regulations, clean air plans and strategies, driving alone to work! include The Great Race for Clean Air, The San or other issues of interest to a particular community. San Francisco, CA Mateo Transportation Seminar, and a new San • Developing the San Francisco Car Free website. Francisco “Car Free” website. Connie McGee Community Initiatives Youth Outreach Rideshare Manager The teams also provide assistance to companies The Air District supports and encourages The Air District is working collaboratively with Enterprise Rideshare, who are trying to set up commuter programs community-based initiatives that reduce air its regional agency partners, the Metropolitan San Leandro, CA for their employees. They both like working on pollution and model new modes of behavior Transportation Commission and the Association of a local level with people in their communities to that will help meet the challenges identified by Bay Area Governments, to promote air quality and achieve a larger goal of cleaner air for the entire local communities. Initiatives include efforts to climate education through the Climate Initiatives Bay Area. reduce traffic at schools and reduce greenhouse Youth and School Outreach Program. The goal of gas emissions. the program is to identify best practices for climate education in the Bay Area and to ensure that Limited English Proficiency Assessment– students have access to the latest climate stations remains a central concern. Although and other stakeholders to reduce air quality impacts In November 2010, the Air District published education resources. mobile sources (which are the largest community from goods movement in the Bay Area. the Assessment of Limited English Proficient Goods Movement sources of diesel particulate matter and other toxic The Air District also assumes an advisory Populations and Current Services. The air contaminants) are regulated at the federal and role on air quality issues related to land-use assessment reviews the language needs of and Local Planning state levels, the Air District has worked closely with development, housing, and transportation, and Bay Area residents and current practices by The environmental impact of goods movement the California Air Resources Board, the Metropolitan reviews and comments on local general plans the Air District to meet these needs. activities on communities near ports and railroad Transportation Commission, the Port of Oakland, and environmental documents.

20 21 Planning Ahead Building Momentum Last fall the Air District adopted its 2010 Clean Plans / Priority Development Areas to ensure Air Plan, which sets a firm foundation for the Air healthy high-density infill development continues. District’s regulatory activities in years to come. This The Air District will also continue to work with Looking Ahead to the Future is the first Bay Area plan to address multiple air local cities and counties to develop Community pollutants—ozone, particulate matter, air toxics, and Risk Reduction Plans, which can identify Preserving and improving air quality in the Bay Area is a process that requires constant greenhouse gases—in one comprehensive strategy comprehensive strategies for reducing emissions effort and vigilance. While continuing to pursue emission reductions through its traditional for improving local air quality and protecting public throughout a community. programs, the Air District has also developed and expanded newer initiatives to address health and the global climate. such issues as climate change and the effects of particulate matter and diesel exhaust in The Clean Air Plan identifies 55 measures for Funding Change our communities. Impressive progress has been made at improving Bay Area air quality reducing pollution from industrial, commercial, The Air District’s innovative incentive programs over the decades. But the fact remains that reducing air pollution is an issue that must be residential and vehicular sources. Implementation continue to help support the clean air of the proposed control measures will provide addressed on a daily basis, while looking ahead to keep pace with increases in population, technologies of the future. On February 2, 2011, both a significant public health benefit and a the agency awarded $3.9 million to four vendors vehicle traffic, and commercial and industrial development. significant financial benefit to the region. The charged with helping to develop electric vehicle estimated value of this benefit—including reduced charging infrastructure in the Bay Area. In the medical costs, increased life expectancy, energy next few years, along with $1.3 million allocated savings and state and federal transportation in 2010, this funding will be used to deploy 3,000 investments—is on the order of $3 billion per year. home chargers at single family and multi-family dwellings, 400 public chargers at employer and Healthy Development high-density parking areas, and 50 fast chargers In June 2010, the Air District adopted its updated within close proximity to highways. Electric CEQA Guidelines, which recommend air quality vehicles are rolling out across the country, and thresholds, analytical methods, and mitigation the Air District is helping to create the necessary measures for local agencies to use in evaluating charging support network for the Bay Area. prospective projects and plans under the California Environmental Quality Act. The comprehensive In 2010, the Air District also helped provide seed update includes recommended thresholds for air money for a pioneering bike-sharing program in APL Shipping Company was a 2010 pollutants—including particulate matter, ozone the region. This project will deploy approximately recipient of an Air District co-funded precursors, and carbon monoxide, as well as 1,000 bicycles at up to 100 kiosk stations along the grant under the Carl Moyer Program toxic pollutants and greenhouse gases—above Peninsula transportation corridor in locations of and the Goods Movement Program to which there is a likelihood that a project would up to five cities including San Francisco, Redwood add a “Shore Power” electricity supply cause harmful environmental effects. City, Mountain View, Palo Alto and San Jose. Bike sharing is similar to car sharing and involves substation to their docks. Now container Under the new guidelines, for the first time, an organized system of short-term, collective ships plug into the electrical grid and local agencies will need to consider the health bicycle rental for purposes of transportation in turn off their diesel engines while in effects from existing sources of air pollution port, helping to reduce pollution in the in a given area on proposed sensitive land uses an urban environment. West Oakland waterfront area. such as housing or schools. This provision will The Air District’s Goods Movement program be especially protective of communities that ship continues to provide critical financial support Ocean-going vessels are a major source already have significant air quality concerns. Shape of toxic diesel emissions in West Oakland. for local truckers as they make the necessary In the coming years, the Air District will continue The use of shoreside electric power equipment adjustments to meet upcoming state to work with local jurisdictions and other diesel regulation deadlines. Kevin Krick instead of diesel generators will cut stakeholders to implement the 2010 CEQA more than 50,000 pounds of nitrogen Director of Environmental Affairs, Global Guidelines and thresholds. The agency will Monitoring Our Future APL (American President’s Line) oxide emissions and 1,500 pounds of continue its work with regional partners to Transportation and Logistics Company toxic soot annually from APL ships provide technical assistance in the development of Enhancements to the Air District’s air monitoring Oakland, CA berthed at the Port of Oakland. the Bay Area Sustainable Communities Strategy/ network ensure that air pollution in the Bay Area Regional Transportation Plan and Station Area continues to be adequately tracked and measured.

22 23 Reaching Out to Everyone In 2010, the Air District deployed three Photochemical In order to establish procedures and best practices Assessment Monitoring Stations in San Ramon, for public engagement, the Air District is developing Patterson Pass, and Livermore. These collection a Public Engagement Policy and Plan, slated for and analysis facilities continually measure a suite completion in October 2011. This plan will enhance By the Numbers of 57 organic ozone-precursor compounds every communication between the Air District and hour to help better define regional atmospheric members of the public and further the mission chemistry. These stations contain the latest and vision of the Air District in the Bay Area. BAY AREA AIR QUALITY TOXIC PROGRAM ACTIVITY laboratory-grade collection and analysis technology, 2010 Exceedances of Air Quality Standards 2010 Health Risk Screening Analyses In 2010, the Air District developed an Assessment and in years to come, they will give the agency a of Limited English Proficient Populations and Ozone Diesel Engines 256 better picture of how ozone is created throughout Current Services in order to better understand Days over National 8-Hour Standard 9 Gasoline-Dispensing Facilities 9 the District, and more specifically in the Livermore the agency’s effectiveness at communicating Days over California 1-Hour Standard Other Commercial/Industrial 51 Valley ozone “hot spot.” with individuals who speak limited English. 8 Days over California 8-Hour Standard 11 Total Number of Analyses 316 Since September 2010, air monitoring data from In order to better meet the needs of limited- Total Number of Facilities 286 a new Cupertino monitoring station has been English speakers, translation services can Particulate Matter now be made available in five languages for all available on the agency’s website. This temporary Days over National 24-Hour PM10 Standard 0 board and community meetings, free of charge. air monitoring station, one mile east of the Lehigh A phone translation assistance line has also Days over California 24-Hour PM10 Standard 2 Cement Plant in Cupertino, will provide a one-year been established for the main Air District phone Days over National 24-Hour PM2.5 Standard air monitoring study of air quality in the community. 6 COMPLIANCE & ENFORCEMENT line, and a new Spanish language web portal ACTIVITY STATS will be operational in mid-2011. RULEMAKING ACTIVITY 2010 Compliance Inspections Streamlining and Clarifying Quick Takes 2010 Rules Adopted or Amended Source Inspections 7,391 the Process January 6, 2010 Air Pollution Complaints (Excluding • The Breathmobile Mobile Asthma Clinic, which 3,507 Smoking Vehicles) For the past few years, the Air District has been debuted in the Bay Area in 2008, and currently Regulation 2: Permits – Rule 5: working internally to create a comprehensive makes rounds to elementary schools in the New Source Review of Toxic Air Contaminants - Gasoline-Dispensing Facility Inspections 737 online permitting system for businesses. Work on East Bay will be expanding its visits to San amendments adopted Asbestos Inspections 1,438 this project is nearing completion, and a roll-out Francisco in 2011. This mobile clinic, partially June 16, 2010 Reportable Compliance Activities 643 date is expected in mid-2011. This new online funded by the Air District and staffed by a Fees - amendments adopted Regulation 3: Diesel Compliance and system will streamline permit acquisition and doctor and a registered nurse, provides clinical 3,089 December 15, 2010 Grant Inspections update activity for the Bay Area’s 15,000-plus based asthma management care and information Regulation 9: Inorganic Gaseous Pollutants – Rule 10: permit holders. With the old paper-based system, for kids without requiring a trip to a hospital Total 16,805 Nitrogen Oxides and Carbon Monoxide from Boilers, even getting a simple permit could take up to or clinic. 2010 Violations and Penalties 45 days, but with the new online system, many Steam Generators, and Process Heaters in Petroleum Refineries - amendments adopted Violations Resolved 484 permits can be granted instantly upon submission, • In early 2011, the Air District will begin Civil Penalties Collected helping businesses become operational and participating in a Bay Area-wide Toyota Prius $1,260,277 generate revenue sooner. Plug-In Hybrid year-long demonstration and PERMITTING ACTIVITY Air Pollution Complaint Categories research program. During the next year, two 2010 Bay Area Permitted Facilities Total Complaints 12,563 In 2010, the Air District began work on a new Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrids will be available Refineries Smoking Vehicles Small Business Assistance Program to help through the Air District for selected users 5 72.1% businesses navigate the permitting process to drive for two-month periods to capture Gasoline-Dispensing Facilities 2,529 Odor 11.0% more easily. This multilingual effort will go real-world driving data, demonstrate the Major Facilities Excluding Refineries 99 Wood Smoke 10.9% into effect in the second half of 2011 or the viability of plug-in hybrid technology and Smaller Industrial Facilities 7,702 Dust 1.6% first half of 2012. Key program components educate the public about plug-in technology Total Outdoor Fires/Open Burning will include outreach to help business owners prior to the vehicle coming to market in 2012. 10,335 1.2% understand how to use the new online permitting 2010 New Permit Applications Received Smoke 0.9% system, and fee-discount incentives for Future Move Major Facility Review (Title V) 79 Asbestos 0.9% businesses to go green. A new forum will be The Air District is planning a move to a new Gasoline-Dispensing Facilities 374 Other 0.7% created for information-sharing among like location within the next two years, with a site Other Facilities 1,033 Gas Stations businesses, giving them a voice in the rule- selected in 2011. This move is due in part to the 0.5% making process and demonstrating ways to age of the Air District’s current facility and the Total 1,486 Idling 0.2% reduce emissions and stay in compliance. ongoing maintenance and infrastructure costs.

24 25 SOURCE TEST ACTIVITY GRANT AND INCENTIVE PROGRAMS 2010 Financial Breakdown 2010 Number of Source Tests Carl Moyer Program / Mobile Transportation Fund for Clean Air Refinery Source Tests 431 Source Incentive Fund – 2010 County Program Manager Fund Grants – FY 2010/2011 Revenue Compliance Rate 98.4% Total Funds Awarded $10.3 million Total Funds Awarded $8.5 million Title V Facility Source Tests Number of Engines Covered 332 192 (excluding Refineries) by Grant Projects Number of Projects Awarded Grants 57 Percent of Funding Awarded Compliance Rate 97.3% 31 Estimated Emissions Reduction for the Projects 50% to Projects in Impacted Communities Funded (tons) Gasoline Cargo Tank Source Tests 392 Permit-Related Estimated Lifetime Emissions Reduction ROG 67 Compliance Rate 97.4% for the Projects Funded (tons) Revenue NOx 66 Gasoline-Dispensing Facility Source Tests 14,253 Reactive Organic Gases (ROG) 42 PM10 37 Compliance Rate 99.6% Oxides of Nitrogen (NOx) 463 Total 170 Other Miscellaneous Source Tests 238 Particulate Matter (PM10) 42 32% CO2 86,000 Compliance Rate 94.3% Total 547 County Property Tax Vehicle Buy-Back Program – 2010 Total Source Tests 15,646 Goods Movement Program – 2010 Number of Vehicles Scrapped in 2010 5,862 Total Violations 104 Total Funds Awarded $13.2 million Estimated Emissions Reduction (tons): 12% Compliance Rate 99.3% Number of Engines Covered by Grant 286 ROG 372 Projects State & Other Grants NOx 261 Percent of Funding Awarded to LABORATORY 100 Projects in Impacted Communities PM10 4 2010 Samples Analyzed in Lab 5% Estimated Lifetime Emissions Reduction Total 637 PM10 3,840 for the Projects Funded (tons) Number of Vehicles Scrapped Since Program Inception Federal Grants PM2.5 1,200 Oxides of Nitrogen (NOx) 1,290 (June 1996 to end of 2010) Over 55,000 Toxics 12,400 Particulate Matter (PM10) 65 1% Cartridge Aldehydes 780 Total 1,355 PUBLIC OUTREACH ACTIVITIES Other Revenue VOC Speciation 740 Transportation Fund for Clean Air 2010 Spare the Air Program Aldehydes 12 Regional Fund Grants – 2010 Spare the Air Days 10 Metals by XRF 560 Total Funds Awarded $9.8 million AirAlert Registrations 102,942 Number of Projects/Programs Metals by AA 105 58 Employers Registered 2,080 Awarded Grants Expenditures Asbestos 60 Winter Spare the Air Alerts 6 Estimated Lifetime Emissions Reduction Microscopy 9 for the Projects Funded (tons) 2010 Smoking Vehicle Program VOC 5 ROG 63 Vehicles Reported 8,340 62% Personnel Misc. 54 NOx 119 2010 Community Outreach Meetings/Events Total 19,765 PM10 66 Local Community Meetings 45 Impacted Communities/CARE Program/ 33% Total 248 25 Goods Movement Services and Supplies Carbon Dioxide (CO ) - a Greenhouse 2 12,000 Gas (tons) Youth Outreach/Events 10 Community Grants and Climate Change 10 Fairs and Events 65 5% Capital Outlay Total 155

26 27 CARE PROGRAM 2010 Legislative Summary 2010 Major Accomplishments The Air District adopted positions on 23 bills • Continued working with the Air District’s during 2010. Last year, California’s ongoing Strategic Incentives Division staff to target fiscal crisis had an overwhelming influence on incentive funds in the six impacted communities the legislative climate. identified through the CARE program. Fifteen measures to curb air quality regulations • Completed the West Oakland Monitoring Study and programs were introduced in 2010, with (WOMS) in partnership with the Air District’s proponents claiming that such regulations had Executive Technical Services Division and the Desert negative impacts on the state’s business climate. Management Staff Current Board Members Research Institute. The Air District opposed these bills, and none of them passed out of the Legislature. Jack P. Broadbent ALAMEDA COUNTY SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY • Completed data collection efforts undertaken Executive Officer / Air Pollution Control Officer with the Air District’s Technical Services Division The following six measures supported by the Air Tom Bates, Chair John Avalos to measure fine particulate metals at multiple District were passed by the Legislature. Brian Bunger Scott Haggerty Edwin M. Lee locations upwind and downwind of a metals • AB 1863 (Gaines), which extends current District Counsel melting facility in West Oakland. Data collected Jennifer Hosterman Eric Mar reductions in testing requirements for during this period were analyzed and results Jeff McKay hospitals’ diesel backup generators. Nate Miley presented at a series of community meetings. Jean Roggenkamp SAN MATEO COUNTY • AB 2289 (Eng), which allows major changes Deputy Air Pollution Control Officers • Initiated pilot Community Risk Reduction Plans CONTRA COSTA COUNTY to smog check testing procedures. Carole Groom in San Francisco and San Jose in collaboration Jennifer Cooper John Gioia, Vice Chair Carol Klatt with City staff. • AB 2565 (Ammiano), which reduces CEQA Manager, Executive Operations paperwork for lead agencies by allowing David Hudson • Convened meetings of the CARE Task Force to increased Internet use in the CEQA process. SANTA CLARA COUNTY review the development of Community Risk Division Directors Mark Ross Reduction Plans and other District activities. • SB 435 (Pavley), which would allow enforcement Susan Garner Brian Bateman Gayle B. Uilkema against tampering of motorcycle emissions • Developed, and posted on the Air District’s Compliance and Enforcement Ash Kalra, Secretary controls for 2013 and later bikes. website, screening tools for roadways and MARIN COUNTY Liz Kniss permitted stationary sources to support the • SB 1340 (Kehoe), which requires CEC to establish Damian Breen Harold C. Brown, Jr. Ken Yeager updated CEQA Guidelines. a program to reduce costs for in-home electric Strategic Incentives vehicle charging. • Worked with researchers from UC Berkeley to John Chiladakis NAPA COUNTY SOLANO COUNTY deploy our mobile sampling van to analyze truck • SB 1445 (DeSaulnier), which increases Engineering Brad Wagenknecht exhaust at an overpass near the Port of Oakland. vehicle registration fees by $1 to fund SB 375 James Spering This study was designed to detect changes in implementation. Jack Colbourn Administrative Services SONOMA COUNTY emissions from drayage trucks before and after Five of these bills were signed into law by the the State’s port truck regulation. Governor. SB 1445 failed to become law. Lisa Fasano Susan Gorin Communications and Outreach • Developed updated regional toxic emissions In addition, the Air District cosponsored SB 1433 Shirlee Zane inventories for future years 2015 and 2020 to by Senator Mark Leno, which would have tied air Henry Hilken examine changes in air toxics emissions with quality penalties to inflation. Despite significant Planning, Rules and Research continued state and local controls. business opposition, it passed in the Legislature but was vetoed by the Governor. Jeff Mckay, acting Information Systems Services Perhaps the most significant air quality bill of the year was AB 2289, which proposed significant Eric Stevenson changes to the Smog Check program. Signed into Technical Services law, the bill should cut roughly 70 tons per day of ozone precursors statewide.

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