Air Toxics Overview

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West Coast Diesel Emissions Reductions
Collaborative
Cleaning the Air for Health Through
Partnerships and Innovation June 15, 2004
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Overview

• Mission
• Goals
• Timeline
• Structure
• Recap

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Mission

• Reduce emissions from federal sources, which
  comprise a significant amount of diesel PM and
  NOx emissions in the west
• build upon the successes of past and current
  innovative activities
• leverage funds, expertise and action
• apply innovative technologies and collaborative
  approaches
• support and promote market-based approaches and
  voluntary incentives

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Short Term Goals

• Form collaboration of diverse stakeholders to
  work on regional projects
• Implement a few large-scale, high-profile
  regional projects this Fall using existing grant
  programs and discretionary federal funding
  sources
• possibly an I-5 Clean Corridor Project and/or a
  Clean Marine Initiative
• Identify options for long term projects

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Long Term Goal

• Create a West Coast Diesel Emissions Reductions
  Fund (Fund), with a revolving component, in
  FY06/FY07
• Invest the Fund with over 100 million per year
  for multiple years as soon as FY06

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Timeline Short Term

• June 2004
• Develop sector-based, multi-stakeholder
  workgroups
• Develop steering group focused on near-term
  projects, vision and goals
• Plan outreach to funding decision makers

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Timeline Short Term

• July 2004
• Begin outreach to funding decision makers
• Public workshops/conference calls for each
  sector-based workgroup to further develop
  projects
• Periodic meetings/conference calls of the
  steering group

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Timeline Short Term

• August 2004
• Continued outreach to funding decision makers
• September January 2005
• Periodic public workshops
• Development of technical papers on high priority
  long-term projects
• Implementation of 1-2 near-term projects

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Interim Collaborative Structure

• Sector-Based Workgroups
• Steering Group

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Sector Based Workgroups

• Charge
• Identify and develop (with agency and contractual
  support) near- and long-term projects
• Identify and help recruit workgroup members
• Assist in seeking funding opportunities for
  projects
• Representation on near-term steering group
• Individuals from non-federal government agencies
  will represent each sector workgroup on the
  steering group
• 2 per sector workgroup, one from NW, one from SW

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Steering Group Members

• Sector Workgroup representatives
  (2 from each)
• Federal Agency representatives (1 from each)
• USEPA R9
• USEPA R10
• USDA
• USDOT
• USDOE
• Environment Canada
• Mexico SEMARNAT

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Steering Group Interim Charge

• Finalize near-term vision, goals
• Collect, review and prioritize near-term
  collaborative projects (announceable in 0-6
  months implementable in 0-1 yr completed in 1-5
  yrs)
• regional in scope (i.e. multi-state
  impacts/benefits)
• potential to leverage other funds
  (fed/state/local/private/non-profit)
• potential for real/measurable reductions
• potential high profile announcement
• Collect, review and prioritize long-term regional
  project ideas to address the most cost-effective
  reductions from the oldest engines and most
  impacted communities
• Market ideas within agencies and with
  private/non-profit funders for targeted near-term
  funding (FY04/05) and long-term funding (WCDER
  Fund)

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Anticipated Results

• Implement immediate and significant on-the-ground
  projects
• Demonstrate technologies and strategies that can
  be used throughout the US, Canada and Mexico
• Leverage additional resources
• Establish West Coast Diesel Emissions Reductions
  Fund to continue activities for years to come
• Decrease respiratory and cardiac disease in the
  short-term and reduce incidence of cancer in the
  longer-term

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Recap

• Collaborative, Voluntary, Results Oriented
• Show real short term progress
• Outreach
• Success by January 2005
• Short term success launches longer term goals
• Form will follow function minimum amount of
  structure to get the job done
• Federal monies, federal sources, regional projects

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West Coast Diesel Emissions Reductions
Collaborative