WCCC Board of Directors Quarterly Meeting Tuesday, April 21 – Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Hosts: Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities and the Alaska Railroad Corporation 327 W Ship Creek Avenue Anchorage, Alaska 99501 (Note: All Times as Alaska Daylight Time – 1 Hour Earlier than WA, OR, CA) SANDAG Staff Contact: Linda Culp, (619) 699-6957; [email protected] Conference Call Information For All Meetings: 1-877-356- 9437, Access Code 9805119 Tuesday, April 21, 2009 2:00 pm ITS, Operations, and Environment Committee Alternative Fuel Corridor Program Climate Change Activities Alaska Environmental Strategies Best Practices Manual Wednesday, April 22, 2009 8:30 am WCCC Board of Directors Coalition Business Plan Outreach Program Funding Opportunities Goods Movement Committee Federal Relations Committee Marad Port and Intermodal System Report Goods Movement in Alaska 2:00 pm Adjourn www.westcoastcorridors.org MEETING LOCATION Meetings are being hosted by the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities and the Alaska Railroad Corporation. The physical location will be at the Railroad Corporation: Alaska Railroad Corporation 327 W Ship Creek Avenue Anchorage, Alaska 99501 Offices are about 7 miles from the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. Please RSVP for the meeting as we may have transportation arranged to and from the airport and we’ll need your name for security reasons at the office. 2 ITS, Operations and Environment Committee Tuesday, April 21, 2009 2:00 PM Bruce Agnew, Rex Burkholder, Co-Chairs Agenda ITEM # ACTION 1. WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS (Bruce Agnew, Co-Chair) 2. ALTERNATIVE FUEL CORRIDOR PROGRAM: +2A. INTERSTATE CLEAN TRANSPORTATION CORRIDOR INFORMATION (Cliff Gladstein, President, Gladstein & Neandross) This program, started in 1996, has led to $50 million for alternative fueling stations on parts of I-5, CA-99, I-10, I-15, and I-80 in California, Nevada, and Utah. +2B. OREGON DOT I-5 PROGRAM PROPOSAL SUPPORT (Lynn Averbeck, ODOT) ODOT is proposing an I-5 alternative fuel program that includes the placement of fueling stations at rest stops and other locations. ODOT staff will present the proposed program. 2C. COALITION ROLE DISCUSSION The Coalition is proposing to support this effort through outreach and educational methods. The Committee will review several opportunities for assistance. 3. CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVITIES DISCUSSION Last month, the Committee heard two presentations on climate change activities. The Committee should discuss possible opportunities for Coalition activities. 3 ITEM # ACTION 4. ALASKA ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES DISCUSSION Local representatives will present information on key environmental issues facing Alaska. Presentations will include: Diana Carlson and Lyn Dookozian, Endangered Species Act and the Impact on the Port of Anchorage Intermodal Expansion Project. Jackie Poston, Alaska Dept. of Environmental Conservation, on Climate Change and how Alaska is dealing with the issue +5. BEST PRACTICES MANUAL (Glenn Pascal) APPROVE The draft best practices manual was introduced and reviewed at last month’s Committee meeting with a 30-day comment period. The Committee will discuss the final draft and is asked to recommend approval to the Board of Directors. The project manager will also describe the process for keeping the manual current. + indicates attachment 4 ITS, OPERATIONS, AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE April 21, 20099 AGENDA ITEM NO.: 2A Action Requested: INFORMATION INTERSTATE CLEAN TRANSPORTATION CORRIDOR (The Material herein is taken from the ICTC website. It gives a good overview of this very interesting project which was begun more than a decade ago. It presents an excellent case study in public private partnerships.) The Interstate Clean Transportation Corridor is a planned network of alternative fuel dispensing stations along key roadways that serve associated alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) fleets that move freight between cities and states in the Western United States. It is the first economically sustainable and most successful planned clean fuel corridor of its kind in the nation. The goal of the ICTC Project is to mobilize and concentrate public and private resources to maximize the commercial viability of clean, alternative fuel trucks in goods movement. The ICTC Project links truck fleet operators to engine, chassis and fuel providers, as well as to public agencies that provide technical and financial assistance in order to facilitate the deployment of alternative fuel trucks and development of alternative fuel infrastructure along the corridor. The United States Department of Energy (U.S. DOE), United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), California Air Resources Board (CARB), South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), California Energy Commission (CEC), San Bernardino Associated Governments (SANBAG), Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District (MDAQMD), Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC), and the Antelope Valley Air Pollution Control District (AVAPCD) have mutually funded the Project and are members of the Project's Steering Committee. The ICTC Project provides a unique opportunity for these agencies to coordinate their respective air quality and energy agendas through this single collaborative effort. 5 Through the support of the ICTC Steering Committee, the project provides complimentary technical and grant funding services to heavy-duty fleet operators looking to deploy alternative fuel heavy- duty trucks and infrastructure at key locations along the corridor. HISTORY The ICTC grew out of efforts undertaken to address issues raised by the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, the Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission, and the 1992 Energy Policy Act (EPAct) regarding the air pollution and the country's growing dependence on imported oil. Throughout the early and mid 1990s, awareness of the role of diesel on public health and exacerbating regional haze was growing. In addition, the 1990-91 Gulf War as well as several unexpected price shocks reminded the nation of the adverse economic consequences of our transportation system's almost total reliance on petroleum. Reducing the country's use of diesel fuel was seen as a way to address these problems simultaneously. In 1993, the United States Department of Energy (US-DOE) developed the "Clean Cities Program," which encourages public private partnerships to advance the purchase and use of clean alternative fuel vehicle technology and infrastructure on a local and regional level. The concept of Clean Cities was to start small, build awareness of the link between air pollution and petroleum-dependent transportation, and introduce fleet operators to new options for vehicle fuel. The idea was to create interest and build momentum, with the hope that each community would begin to work together to develop and implement an AFV deployment plan tailored to its individual needs and that would enable it to reap the rewards of mutual action. As the Clean Cities program expanded the next logical step was to link Clean Cities together through an integrated network of Clean Fuel Corridors. One of the early proponents of the corridor concept in the Western United States was Ken Kelley, President and CEO of JBK Trucking Company. In late 1995, Gladstein, Neandross & Associates (GNA) and Ruby Mountain, Inc., working with the late Carl Moyer, Mike Jackson, and Charlotte Pera of Acurex Environmental, developed Kelley's idea into the Interstate Clean Transportation Corridor. As originally envisioned, the ICTC was to link the region's five major air quality non-attainment areas: Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Salt Lake City and the San Joaquin Valley along the I-80, I-5/CA- 99 and the I-15. The initial goals of the ICTC were to: • Create a triangular corridor that would provide alternative fuel coverage for over 1,800 miles of some of the nation's busiest interstate highways. • Install 10 natural gas fueling stations along the three legs of the corridor; • Deploy 250 new heavy-duty AFV's to utilize this infrastructure; • Displacing over 4.7 million gallons of petroleum fuel annually; • Reducing emissions of priority pollutants by over 131 tons a annually; • Generating over $19 million in private investment in new alternative fuel infrastructure. 6 By January, 1996, major environmental agencies and air districts agreed to fund the Project and become members of the Project's Steering Committee. Later, other smaller agencies agreed to support the ICTC Project. As evidenced by the successes realized by the ICTC thus far, the ICTC Project has been one of the most successful programs of it kind anywhere in the world. As the Project's successes are continually being updated, please view the "ICTC News Updates" section of the site to see the most current Achievements of the ICTC. ACHIEVEMENTS By any measure, the ICTC Project has been one of the most successful programs of it kind anywhere in the world. Since its inception, the ICTC has become the nation's most successful public-private partnership dedicated to accelerating the market penetration of clean, alternative fuel vehicles in the interstate movement of goods. In that time the project has exceeded most of its initial goals and is well on the way to accomplishing them all. At present, ICTC staff has helped to secure $23.8 million in funding to: • Build twenty-three (23) public access natural gas fueling stations in California and Nevada. • Deploy 514 heavy-duty and 160 light duty natural gas and LPG vehicles to use these