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Cleaning the Air in the Most Impacted Communities Technical Workshop June 8, 2018 Assembly Bill (AB) 617, a new opportunity

Who is the SCAQMD? Regional Government Agency Responsible for Protecting Our Residents from the Health Effects of Air Pollution What we do • Develop Air Quality Management Plan • Adopt air quality rules and regulations • Issue permits L os A ng eles • Conduct periodic inspections and S an B ernardino C ounty C ounty respond to air quality complaints • Develop and deploy clean technology R ivers ide O range C ounty • Conduct air monitoring C ounty • Engage with all stakeholders • Public outreach and education

Key Types of Air Pollution Greenhouse Criteria Toxic Air Gases Pollutants Contaminants Global Regional Local

Regional Air Toxics in 2005 4

Regional Air Toxics in 2012 5

Regional Air Toxics in 2012 6

Key elements of AB 617 Community Community Community Emission Air Plan Reduction Monitoring Plan Community Easier Best centered Emissions Access to Emission Data Emissions Controls Data Clean Technology Investments

Community Identification & Prioritization for AB 617 • AB 617 is an ongoing program (years/decades) Community • CARB likely to select 5-10 Identification/ communities for 1 st year across the Prioritization state • Significant workload to implement in each community Community Community Emission Cleaner Air Air Reduction Monitoring Plan

Guiding Principles • Prioritize disadvantaged communities that are disproportionately affected by air pollution. • Utilize appropriate existing data and tools, especially those that have gone through the public process. • Thoughtfully consider and integrate public input. • Prioritize communities with known local sources of air pollution where Community Plans would have significant and additional positive impacts. • Work toward promoting health equity by prioritizing most heavily burdened and disadvantaged communities.

What has been done so far? Outreach • Feb-Apr 2018 : 5 community meetings (Commerce, Wilmington, Riverside, San Bernardino, Anaheim) to seek input on criteria for community identification • May-Jun 2018 : 5 additional community meetings (Santa Ana, Jurupa Valley, South Gate, Colton, San Fernando) to seek input on criteria for community prioritization • Conducted significant outreach at other public events Technical Work and Collaboration with CARB • Evaluated technical data to help inform community identification and prioritization • Participated in CARB working groups for emissions reporting, community identification and plans, and BARCT clearinghouse 10

Community self-nominations Feb-May 2018 : SCAQMD staff received community nominations from community members and organizations ( 148 nominations from 21 communities ) Los Angeles County Riverside County   Carson Coachella Valley   East Los Angeles Corona (Corona – Terramor, Corona -Trilogy  South East Los Angeles (Maywood, at Glen Ivy, Sycamore Creek, TemescalValley)  Huntington Park, Walnut Park, Cudahy, JurupaValley (Limonite, Mira Loma, Sunny Commerce, Southgate) Slope, Van Buren)  Northridge Moreno Valley   Pacoima / Sun Valley East Riverside  Paramount  Porter Ranch / Granada Hills San Bernardino County   Torrance Rancho Cucamonga (Alta Loma, Etiwanda)   Wilmington / West Long Beach San Bernardino (North Rialto, West San  Palmdale / Lancaster (out of jurisdiction) Bernardino, Bloomington) Orange County Other / multi-county   Buena Park Inland Southern California/Inland Empire  Santa Ana (Madison Park) Received on or before May 16 through web or hard copy form submission, email, mail and through public comment in community meetings

Key input received to date Proximity/land Air pollution sources Population factors use factors Population density Diesel sources Schools near (freeways, trucks, Low income air pollution warehouses, Communities of sources/ railyards) color industrial areas Access to Oil production & healthcare processing (wells, Asthma, cancer Concentration of refineries) industries rates Landfills, scrap Education levels yards, hazardous Green spaces waste sites Children & elderly

Technical data sources Multiple Air Toxics Exposure CalEnviroScreen 3.0 - OEHHA Study (MATES) IV - SCAQMD • • Pollution factors ( Multiple pollution sources ): Regional air toxics study • • Air toxics cancer risk Ozone, PM2.5, Diesel PM • Diesel particulate matter accounts for • Drinking water contaminants 2/3 of risk • Pesticide use, toxic releases, traffic • Multiple pollution sources density • Cleanup sites, groundwater threats, hazardous waste generators and facilities, impaired water bodies, solid Schools Near Freeways and waste sites and facilities Industrial Areas • Population factors:  Schools and day care centers with • Asthma , heart disease, low birth weight industrial zones or freeways within 1000 • feet. Educational attainment , housing burden , linguistic isolation , poverty , unemployment

Multiple Air Toxics Exposure Study (MATES IV) Data from 2012 Main findings: • Diesel Particulate Matter (PM) accounted for 2/3 of air toxics cancer risk • Ports (ships), rail yards and goods movement corridors (trucks) are large sources of diesel PM.

Spatial data conversion Census tracts 2x2 km grid (public)

Spatial data conversion Risk 1 Risk 2 Risk 1 Risk 2 A 1 A 2 A 3 A 4 Risk 3 Risk 4 Risk 3 Risk 4 Risk in census tract, Risk T , is the area-weighted average of the gridded risks: 𝑺𝒋𝒕𝒍 𝑼 = 𝑩 𝟐 ∙ 𝑺𝒋𝒕𝒍 𝟐 + 𝑩 𝟑 ∙ 𝑺𝒋𝒕𝒍 𝟑 + 𝑩 𝟒 ∙ 𝑺𝒋𝒕𝒍 𝟒 + 𝑩 𝟓 ∙ 𝑺𝒋𝒕𝒍 𝟓 𝑩 𝟐 + 𝑩 𝟑 + 𝑩 𝟒 + 𝑩 𝟓

MATES IV ranking in communities under consideration Percentile is calculated in relationship to all census tracts in SCAQMD jurisdiction

CalEnviroScreen 3.0 (OEHHA) OEHHA: Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (State agency) Social and Economic Factors

CalEnviroScreen 3.0 (OEHHA) Data is based on census tracts

CalEnviroScreen 3.0 ranking in communities under consideration Percentile is calculated in relationship to CalEnviroScreen considers pollution burden, environmental effects, sensitive populations all census tracts in the state of California as well as social and economic factors

Summary Methods and Criteria for Community prioritization All communities in All communities 1 consideration for AB 617 identified (55) 2 Separate by air basin SCAB (54) CVAB (1) Does not meet 3 Meets criteria to criteria  Consider Apply screening criteria be considered for Recommend for factors Years 1-5 (33) Years 6+ (21) Fewer additional 4 Has additional factors. Evaluate additional factors factors that increase Recommend for priority Years 6+ 5 Consider selection criteria Year 1 Years 2-5 for Year 1 communities communities communities

STEP 1: TECHNICAL METHODS AND CRITERIA We first identified communities using a broadly inclusive approach . Preliminary list includes each of the following: (1) Top 25% of MATES IV air toxics cancer risk (2) Top 25% of CalEnviroScreen 3.0 score (3) Community nominations (148 nominations received through 5/17/2018) (4) Communities with the highest density of schools within 1,000 feet of industrial land use