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Health Impacts of Air Pollution on Communities Source Category Regulations

Health Impacts of Air Pollution on Communities Source Category Regulations. Dan Donohoue Air Resources Board. California Environmental Protection Agency. Overview. Assessing Community Health Impacts Assessment Results Regulatory Actions Assistance to Local Agencies Wrap Up.

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Health Impacts of Air Pollution on Communities Source Category Regulations

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  1. Health Impacts of Air Pollution on CommunitiesSource Category Regulations Dan Donohoue Air Resources Board California Environmental Protection Agency

  2. Overview • Assessing Community Health Impacts • Assessment Results • Regulatory Actions • Assistance to Local Agencies • Wrap Up

  3. Assessing Community Health

  4. Planning Tools • Air Quality Standards / State Implementation Plans • Diesel Risk Reduction Plan • Children’s Environmental Health Act • Goods Movement Emission Reduction Plan

  5. Diesel PM risk Diesel PM Responsible for 70% of Year 2000 Statewide Risk from Air Toxics Emissions Diesel Risk Reduction Plan • Need to reduce emissions from all diesel sources • Goal is 85% reduction in emissions by 2020

  6. Children’s Environmental Health Act • Special community-focused monitoring for children’s health impacts (SB25) • Barrio Logan • Wilmington • Fruitvale (Oakland area) • Fresno • Boyle Heights • Crockett

  7. Goods Movement Emission Reduction Plan • Railroad Health Risk Assessments (part of MOU) • Port of LA/Long Beach • Port of Oakland (under development) 4

  8. Assessment Results

  9. What have the results told us? • Diesel PM – primary source of cancer risk • Directly emitted PM and secondary PM from NOx – primary source of noncancer risk • Mobile sources predominate region impact • Other toxics play a role in near source risk

  10. What are the risks? • High traffic freeways: 300-1,700/million 4

  11. What are the risks? • Port of LA/Long Beach: 10-500+/million 4

  12. What are the risks? • Roseville Railyard: 10-500/million 4

  13. Cases/Year Premature death* 2,400 Hospital admissions (heart) 830 Hospital admissions (lung) 2,000 Acute bronchitis 5,100 Asthma/other respiratory 62,000 Absences/restricted days 4.4 million *Uncertainty range is 720 to 4,100 deaths/year 2005 Statewide Non-Cancer Health Impacts from Goods Movement

  14. Bottom Line • To improve community health we need to significantly reduce PM and NOx emissions • Reduce near source risks from toxic sources

  15. Regulatory Actions

  16. Review Sources and Control Technologies Develop Regulatory Concept Public Workshops Draft Staff Report Public Hearing Board to Adopt ATCM Overview of Regulatory Process Adopted ATCMs reducing: arsenic asbestos benzene 1,3 butadiene cadmium diesel PM dioxins ethylene oxide formaldehyde hexavalent chromium lead methylene chloride nickel perchloroethylene trichloroethylene

  17. Toxic Control Measures • ATCMs reduce air toxics risks from neighborhood sources…. Burn Barrels Service Stations Automotive Repair and Refinishing Dry Cleaners Chrome Plating

  18. Reducing Emissions and Risk …. and also from industrial sources Medical Waste Incinerators Metal Melting EtO Sterilzers Asbestos in Surfacing and Construction and Mining Cooling Towers

  19. Diesel PM and NOx Regulations • Low sulfur diesel fuel • Transport refrigeration units • Truck idling limits • Transit buses and refuse trucks • Stationary and portable engines • Agricultural engines • International trucks • Ban on ship incineration • Ship auxiliary engine fuels • Cargo handling equipment • Gas forklifts 12

  20. Rulemakings in the Works (2007-2008) • Commercial harbor craft • Speed limits for ships • Shore power for ships • Port trucks • Privately-owned trucks • Ship main engine fuel • Cleaner ships 13

  21. Assistance to Local Agencies

  22. Guidance Available • Risk Assessment Guidelines • HARP • Risk Reduction Guidance • Risk Reduction Audit and Plan by Source Categories • Risk Management Guidance • Lead Risk Management • Risk Management Guidelines • Land Use Handbook

  23. Wrap Up • Continue aggressive regulatory program to reduce diesel PM, PM, NOx and toxics • Support local actions • Push federal/international standards • Work with stakeholders

  24. Where to find documents: www.arb.ca.gov/diesel

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