Keeping Tomorrow’s Air Keeping Tomorrow’s Air Clean: Clean: Conforming Conforming Transportation Plans with Transportation Plans with Air Quality Attainment Air Quality Attainment Efforts Efforts San Joaquin Valley Transportation Planning Agencies Kern Council Of Governments Kern COG Workshop April 15, 2004 Rob Ball – Senior Planner
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Keeping Tomorrow’s Air Keeping Tomorrow’s Air Clean:Clean: Conforming Conforming Transportation Plans with Air Transportation Plans with Air Quality Attainment EffortsQuality Attainment Efforts
Conforminty Presentation Conforminty Presentation OutlineOutlineOverview of the Federal Clean Air ActThe Hammer: Conformity LapseConformity Determination: Modeling
Future Travel and EmissionsControl Measure Strategies2004 Transportation Expenditure
Federal Regulations:Federal Regulations:1977 Federal Clean Air 1977 Federal Clean Air Act,Act,and 1990 Amendments to and 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Actthe Clean Air Act
ConformityConformityTransportation Conformity is the
process mandated by the Clean Air Act to ensure that Federal Highway Expenditures will not negatively effect attainment of Air Quality Standards in areas that do not meet the Federal Standards.
Categories of EmissionsCategories of Emissions Natural or Biogenic Sources – plants, etc. Stationary Sources – power plants, refineries,
factories, pumps, etc. Area Sources – small stationary sources, dry
Preliminary Conformity Preliminary Conformity ResultsResultsKern – San Joaquin Valley Portion
– PM10 – 2005 .5 ton under 10.6 ton budget
– Ozone – 2005 NOx 1 ton under 37.6 ton budget– CO – 2005 10 tons under 162 ton budget
E. Kern - IWV-Ridgecrest– PM10 – 2030 .3 tons under 1.7 ton budget
E. Kern – Tehachapi - Mojave Desert– Ozone – 2005 NOx .5 ton under 7.1 ton budget
Control Measure Control Measure StrategiesStrategies
Sample Control Measures Sample Control Measures Cost/BenefitCost/BenefitPM10
– Paving 3 miles of shoulder w/ 24,000 trips/day
• .45 tons per day or $1,376 per ton
– Paving 1 mile of Alley w/ 74 trips/day• .09 tons per year or $527 per ton
– PM10 Efficient Street Sweepers• .01 tons per year or $2,500 per ton
Sample Control Measures Sample Control Measures Cost/BenefitCost/Benefit Ozone
– Replace one Diesel Vehicle that travels 1000,000 miles annual in the region
• .0016 tons per day or $9.6 million (320 vehicles) per ton
– Replace one Passenger Vehicle that travels 15,000 miles annually in the region
• .000048 tons per day or $140 million (14,000 vehicles) per ton
2004 TIP/RTP2004 TIP/RTPConformity Conformity TimelineTimeline Draft Complete - May 17 Public Review Period begins – May 21 Public Workshops – May to June Public Review Period ends – July 6 COG Board – July 15 Due to Federal Highways – August 1
Kern CouncilOf Governments
Conclusions/Solutions/Conclusions/Solutions/Questions?Questions? Plans are Conforming… for now. Every effort needs to be made to achieve
the future reductions in Ozone. Transportation efforts should focus on:
– More Street Sweeping – even on low volume roads
– Controling runoff/track-out onto streets– Paving/controling dust from high volume
roads w/ dirt shoulders– Paving high volume dirt public roads/alleys