This webinar by James Westbrook, President of BlueScape Environmental, provides an update on the California Community Air Protection Program, or AB 617. The regulation is a new, one-of-a-kind program implemented by the Air Resources Board (ARB). The Program provides more than $255 million in funding for mobile source air emission reductions and assistance grants in health-impacted, economically disadvantaged areas, primarily in the South Coast Air Basin, the San Joaquin Valley and the Bay Area. ARB released the AB 617 Concept Paper, and the Draft Process and Criteria for 2018 Community Selections in early February 2018, and has been conducting workshops and technical summits. Communities are now able to self-recommend to ARB, and Air Districts are required to submit an initial Communities list by April 30, 2018. AB 617 is a fast-developing program that will be launched by the end of 2018. This new and statewide process will be directed by Air Districts, but led by communities that step forward to reduce their health impacts, supported by an extensive emissions database and air monitoring networks. Companies operating in or near Communities identified under AB 617 may be required to take action under risk of enforcement, including such actions as installing Best Available Retrofit Control Technology (BARCT). This webinar provides information on what you need to know about the current direction of AB 617 Program development, including: genesis of the AB 617 rule; relationship to existing state regulations and programs; potential AB 617 Communities, as identified using CalEnviroScreen and other tools; summary of work completed by ARB to date (Concept Plan, Draft Process and Criteria for 2018 Communities Selection, and Technical Summits); current Air District actions to implement AB 617 such as description and funding sources to implement emission reductions, monitoring networks, emission databases and assistance grants; schedule for AB 617 implementation, and opportunities for you to get involved with the developing Program. James Westbrook can be reached at jwestbrook@bluescapeinc.com or 877-486-9257. Please contact us for any questions or support you need to work with the air agencies and communities to respond to the developing regulations and requirements under AB 617.

1. AB 617 – The California
Community Air
Protection Program
Emission Reductions Coming Soon to a
Town Near You!
March 22, 2018
James A. Westbrook, President
jwestbrook@bluescapeinc.com
877-486-9257

2. AB 617 Webinar Topics
• Regulation Background & Requirements
• CARB Implementation
– Program Elements
– Funding
– Initial Concept Paper
– Draft Community Selection Guidance
– Implementation Timeline
• Implementation by Air Districts
– South Coast AQMD, San Joaquin Valley APCD, Bay Area
AQMD
• AB 617 – Facility Opportunities and Impacts
• Recommendations

3. About BlueScape
• Leading experience in California with air permitting and
toxics regulations
• Specialize in air emissions estimation, dispersion modeling
and health risk assessment (HRA) using HARP2
• Experience with:
- AB 2588 Air Toxics Hot Spots Program
- Air District New Source Review Programs & Toxics Rules
- Proposition 65
- CEQA Air Quality Analysis
• Work with agencies to develop and negotiate:
- Modeling, monitoring and source testing protocols; emission
reductions plans; control technology determinations
- Approvable air emission reports, permits and HRAs
• See our recent webinars!

4. AB 617 Background

5. Los Angeles Population 1900-1928
Ref: Los Angeles Magazine, April 8, 2015

6. Community Air Protection Program - Background
• State Environmental Justice Regulations
• Past Air District actions in local communities:
– AB2588 Air Toxic Hot Spots Program
– Rule 1402 and Air Toxics Initiative in South Coast; Rule 11-18 in Bay Area
• Air District and local politician lobbying
– Protect disadvantaged communities
– Reduce mobile and industrial toxic pollution impacts
– Co-benefit for lowering regional pollution
• AB 32 Cap and Trade Program - SB 535 (2012, de Leon)
– 25% of funds utilized in disadvantaged communities
• AB 617 (Garcia) approved 7/16/17
– $255 million to Air Districts
• $5 million for community assistance
• $250 million to air districts
• CARB charged with implementation

7. Community Air Protection Program - Requirements
• Strategy to reduce emissions in disadvantaged communities
with high burden, required by 10/1/18
– Criteria pollutants and air toxics
– Grants to assist communities with implementation
• Community Monitoring Plans, for criteria pollutants and air
toxics, by 10/1/18
– Highest priority locations
– Deploy community monitoring by 7/1/19
– Additional locations after 1/1/20
– Authorizes air districts to require facilities to do fence-line monitoring
• Community Emissions Reduction Programs within one year,
by late 2019
• Uniform statewide annual reporting by certain stationary
sources
– 3rd Party verification may be required

8. Community Air Protection Program - Requirements
• Best Available Retrofit Technology (BARCT)
– Air Districts to expedite schedule for BARCT rules
– Highest priority to permitted units; not modified permit
conditions for a long time
– Highest risk “priority” facilities
– Consider cost-effectiveness of control options
– Not apply if BARCT implemented since 2007
• Increased criminal and civil penalties - $5,000
• Expand information available to the public
– Annual Emissions and Monitoring Data
– Clearinghouse: BARCT and BACT determinations, criteria
pollutants and air toxics

9. Community Air Protection Program -
Stationary Source Definition
• Required to report GHG emissions under AB 32
Program, or
• Authorized to emit 250 tons/year or more
nonattainment pollutants or precursors, or
• Receives an “elevated” air toxics prioritization score
– Cancer or noncancer health impacts
– Score of 10 generally considered to be “high”
– Air Districts may consider lower scores for facilities in high
burden areas

10. CARB AB 617 Implementation

11. Program Elements
•Incentive funding
•Community
assistance grants
•Statewide
reporting system
•Statewide pollution
mapping tool
•Identify communities
for monitoring
•Statewide Monitoring
Plan
•District and community
operated networks
•Statewide data display
Joint Implementation
of Program Elements
•Identify communities for
emission reduction programs
•Statewide Strategy
•District Community Emission
Reduction Programs
•District BARCT implementation
•State and district strategies
MONITORING ACTION PLANSEMISSIONS
FUNDING
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CARB, Update on the AB 617 Community Air Protection Program, 1/31/18

12. AB 617 Funding
$250M for Targeted Incentive
Funding to Support Early Actions
• Provides demonstrated
commitment to deliver on
goals of AB 617
• Focus on communities with
highest pollution burdens
• Target mobile sources
spending substantial portion
of time within communities
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CARB, Update on the AB 617 Community Air Protection Program, 1/31/18

13. Program Concept Paper
• Issued 2/7/18; provided in webinar panel
• Criteria for Emission Reduction Programs
• Criteria for Community Monitoring
• Public Funding
• Statewide Emissions and Monitoring
• Technology Clearinghouse
• Public workshops in June 2018
• Final draft and public comment period in Aug.
2018

14. Draft Process and Criteria for Community Selections
• Issued 2/7/18, provided in webinar panel
• What is a community?
• Community Self-Recommendations
– Submitted to Air Districts by any community member
– Location, monitoring/emissions reduction, other factors
• Air District Recommendations
– Concentration data, sensitive receptors, density of facilities, health
impact indicators, air quality modeling. Socioeconomic factors
– Existing monitoring, community infrastructure/involvement
– Hold workshops, community level meetings
– Initial submittal 4/30/18; final submittal 7/31/18
• CARB Evaluation
– Highest priority, greatest readiness, best information
– Near-term successes to inform future challenges

15. CalEnviroScreen 3.0 (2017) tool
• Disadvantaged communities, SB 535 (top 25% tracts)
• Disadvantaged and low-income under AB 1550
• https://oehha.ca.gov/calenviroscreen/report/
calenviroscreen-30
• Searchable, scored from
1-100% (red 91-100%)
• Population, pollution burden
Socioeconomic factors,
Sensitivity
• Download database to
Review calculations

16. CARB Implementation Timeline
• Late 2017 – Mar 2018
– Consultations, workshops
– Concept Paper, 2/7/18
– Draft Process for Community Selections in 2018, 2/7/18
– Technical Summits (see webinar panel)
• April 2018
– Community assistance grant applications due (4/12)
– Air District initial community lists (4/30)
• July-August – Final air district selections and public comment
• September 2018 – Board meeting to consider final selections
and planning documents
• Implementation - monitoring, emission reduction into
2019/2020 (and beyond)
• Rinse and repeat!

17. AB 617 Implementation by
Air Districts

18. South Coast AQMD – AB 617 Implementation
• Website found at:
www.aqmd.gov/nav/about/initiatives/environmental-justice/ab617-134
• $107.5 million funding initially
• SCAQMD gets:
– $10.7 million initially for implementation
– But $250 million required to run programs through 2039, $11
million per year
– Manage reduction plans, monitoring, BARCT programs
• Proceeds to Carl Moyer Program, mobile sources
– Diesel-fueled trucks, buses, heavy construction equipment, etc.
– Commercialize zero and near-zero vehicles
– 101 projects, $51.7 million approved; 88% in disadvantaged
areas
• Community meetings – Commerce, Wilmington, Riverside
(3/27), San Bernardino (4/10), Anaheim (4/17)
– Community self-recommendations by May 7, 2018

19. South Coast AQMD – AB 617 Goals
Ref: SCAQMD, Cleaning the Air in the Most Impacted Communities,
AB 617, A new opportunity, not dated.
Enhanced
Transparency
Clean
Technology
Investments
Easier
Access to
Information
Develop
Local
Partnerships
Community
Centered
Air
Monitoring
Cleaner
Air
AB 617
Goals

20. South Coast AQMD – AB 617 Program Elements
Ref: SCAQMD, Cleaning the Air in the Most Impacted Communities,
AB 617, A new opportunity, not dated.
Five Main AB617 Elements
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Community
Plan
Emissions
Data
Air
Monitoring
Community
Emission
Reduction
Plan
Best
Emission
Controls
Easier
Access to
Emissions
Data
Clean
Technology
Investments

21. South Coast AQMD – Identifying AB 617 Communities
Ref: SCAQMD, Cleaning the Air in the Most Impacted Communities,
AB 617, A new opportunity, not dated.
Available information
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CalEnviroScreen
3.0
Multiple Air
Toxics Studies
(MATES)
Source
Location
Socioeconomic Factors,
Environmental FactorsAir Toxics Cancer Risk
Permitted Facilities,
Freight and
Transportation Corridors

22. South Coast AQMD - AB 617 Timing
Ref: SCAQMD AB 617 Implementation, Presentation to the EJAG
Committee, 1/26/18.

23. San Joaquin Valley APCD – AB 617 Implementation
• $80 million funding initially, SJVAPCD gets $5 million
• Proceeds to Carl Moyer Program
– 40% to Clean Truck program
– 80% for AB 1550 low income communities
– 50% for SB 535 disadvantaged communities
– Funding under contract by 6/30/19
• Other funding – fleet modernization, agriculture, renewable
energy, digesters, food processors
• BARCT rulemaking schedule to be implemented by 1/1/19
• Public workshop, 3/6/18;
www.valleyair.org/community/documents/03-06-18/presentation.pdf
• CARB AB 617 Consultation Meeting (San Francisco) –
3/26/18

24. San Joaquin Valley APCD – AB 617 Website
• INSERT SURVEY AND SCREENSHOT OF
WEBSITE
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Ref: SJVAPCD, New Funding Opportunities for Emission Reductions
in Valley Communities, 3/1/18.

25. San Joaquin Valley APCD – Identifying AB 617
Communities
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Ref: SJVAPCD, New Funding Opportunities for Emission Reductions
in Valley Communities, 3/1/18.

26. Bay Area AQMD – AB 617 Implementation
• Website found at:
www.baaqmd.gov/plans-and-climate/community-health-
protection-program
• $50 million funding initially; Carl Moyer
Program
• TBARCT rulemaking already completed under
11-18
• Workshop on New Funding and New Efforts to
Curb Local Air Pollution (AB 617) – 3/28/18 in
San Leandro

27. Bay Area AQMD – Initiatives Before AB 617
Ref: BAAQMD, Assembly Bill 617 Update, Board of Directors Meeting,
October 4, 2017.
Clean Air Communities Initiative
MONITORING
• Ambient Monitoring Network
• Community Monitoring
• Local Measurement Studies
• Collaborate with Universities
and Community Research
Monitoring Programs
• Photochemical Monitoring
• General Aviation Airport Sampling
• Near Roadway Monitoring
MODELING & ASSESSMENT
• Regional and Local Modeling
• Regional and Local Exposure and
Health Impacts Assessment
• Permit Modeling and Risk
Assessment
OUTREACH/EDUCATION
• Public Engagement Policy and Plan
• Collaborate with Local Governments
• Collaborate with Health Departments
• Collaborate with Transportation Agencies
• Community Meetings
• Resource Teams
• Collaborate with Community Groups
• Wood Smoke Outreach
REGULATIONS
• NSR / Permits
• 2588 Hot Spots Program
• Source Specific Rules
• Wood Smoke Rule
• Back-up Generators
• Indirect Source Rule
PLANNING & GUIDELINES
• CEQA Guidelines
• Community Risk Reduction Plans
• 2010 Clean Air Plan
• PM Strategy
• General Plan Guidelines
• SB375/SCS
• Climate Protection Program/
GHG Co-Benefits
• Healthy Community Development
Guidelines
ENFORCEMENT
• Diesel Enforcement Program
• Inspection/Enforcement of District
Regulations
• Enforcement of CARB Regulations
• Respond to Complaints
• Inspection of Grantees
GRANTS/INCENTIVES
• Carl Moyer Program
• TFCA
• Mobile Source Incentive Fund
• I-Bond/Goods Movement
• Bay Area Clean Air Foundation
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28. Bay Area AQMD – CARE Program
CARE Program
• Complements traditional air quality
planning
• Highlights communities most
affected by high exposure and those
vulnerable to air pollution
• Maps areas of greater health impact
based on cumulative air pollution
levels and existing adverse health
outcomes
• Identifies vulnerable communities
• Strives to fill a gap in health
protection between regional and
facility-scale assessments
http://www.baaqmd.gov/research-and-data/interactive-data-maps
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Ref: BAAQMD, AB617 Protecting Community Health, Regional
Workshop, 1/31/18.

29. Bay Area AQMD – Identifying AB 617 Communities
CARE Areas
Additional Impact Areas
Other Large Sources
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Ref: BAAQMD, AB617 Protecting Community Health, Regional
Workshop, 1/31/18.

30. Bay Area AQMD – BARCT and TBARCT
• Facility BARCT (TBARCT) already addressed in Rule 11-18
• TBARCT similar to TBACT for new permits, only:
– Retrofits
– Cost effectiveness considered
• In the approved Rule 11-18 Health Risk Reduction Plan
• Not feasible to get below Risk Action Levels
• Standard TBARCT – BAAQMD Workbook
• Case-by-case TBARCT determinations
• Additional BARCT determinations under AB 617?
• See BlueScape webinar:
www.slideshare.net/BlueScape/bluescape-the-new-bay-area-aqmd-air-
toxics-risk-reduction-rule-1118-will-your-facility-be-one-of-hundreds-
impacted-120717-webinar

31. AB 617 Opportunities and
Impacts for Industrial Facilities

32. Opportunities:
• Increased funding opportunities
• Equipment upgrades, voluntary emission
reductions
• Engage with communities and air district
• Better science, consistent data
Impacts:
• Fence-line monitoring
• Emissions reduction, BARCT
• Increased fines, litigation

33. Response to AB 617 -
Recommendations for
Industrial Facilities

34. AB 617 Response Recommendations
• AB 617 is a Community Program ...
– but the Air Districts and CARB will run the show
• Recommendations:
– See where you are located on CalEnviroScreen
– Consider your community history, improve relationship?
– Know your emissions and prioritization scores
– Attend AB 617 workshops and hearings, comment and engage with
community/agencies
– Leverage Industrial Association resources
– Participate in BARCT determination hearings for your equipment
types
• Understand how BARCT fits with/goes beyond other rules
– Get funding, or consider voluntary emission reductions
– Make sure air districts have the best information – emissions, air
modeling/monitoring, and health risk assessments
– Remove your facility from scrutiny if possible
• Give us a call if you need support or have questions!

35. Contact Information / Questions
James Westbrook
BlueScape Environmental
877-486-9257
jwestbrook@bluescapeinc.com
www.bluescapeinc.com
The webinar presentation will be posted on Slideshare and
YouTube (search for BlueScape)