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4.6-513, and 4.6-5C summarize NOx, ROG, and PM10 emissions from Project operation for on-site processing equipment, on-site equipment, and haul trucks at production levels of 4.0, 2.85, and 1.7 million ton/year, respectively. (Draft EIR, pp. 4.6-21-4.6-24.)Section 4.6 does not contain a breakdown of the relative contributions from the various Project processes,e.g., from mining, processing, asphalt production, concrete production, recycling operations, etc., to total Project _ operational emissions. The Draft EIR claims that detailed emission calculation assumptions, background data for emission sources, and emission factors and other pertinent information are contained in Appendix D. (Draft EIR, p.4.6-16.) This could B-3 not be further from the truth. Appendix D contains only very general descriptions of cont. the Project's various processes, mostly verbatim from the U.S. EPA's AP-42, Compilation of Air Pollution Factors, several tables with emission factors and equipment characteristics, a number of equations, and a few Project-specific assumptions scattered throughout. Appendix D does not contain a step-by-step demonstration of how the emissions presented in the Draft EIR's Section 4.6 were derived. Neither the Draft EIR's Section 4.6 nor the Appendix contains the actual calculations or modeling results. In other words, the Draft EIR fails to provide sufficient information to review the results it presents in its air quality analysis. Thus, the reviewer must take on faith the emissions as presented, contrary to the disclosure requirement of CEQA. ` Specifically, the Draft EIR fails to provide the following: — Printouts of spreadsheets with calculations of Project construction and operational emissions for each process or Project component,e.g., grading, mining, sand and gravel processing, asphalt production, concrete production,recycling operations, haul truck traffic; — Printouts of EMFAC2002 input/output files used to derive emission factors; B-4 — Printouts of input/output files for the CALINE4 screening dispersion model; — Printouts of input/output files for the AERMOD dispersion model; _ — Printout of meteorological data or a reference to publicly available data set used for dispersion modeling. This information is normally provided in an EIR but was not here. Here, the Draft EIR simply presents results without providing the reviewer with sufficient _ information to verify these results. This is not acceptable under CEQA. 2