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KL /NFELDER Bright Feop/e.Right Solutiom reduction measures. The state has adopted the California Green Building Code (CALGREEN), effective this year but adopted by the City of Stockton in August 2010. CALGREEN requires mandatory building measures related to energy efficiency, water conservation, and materials recycling and reuse. It also includes voluntary Tier 1 and Tier 2 measures designed to promote additional "green" building. L The City of Stockton is independently addressing the issue of global climate change and the need to reduce GGs associated with government operations and land development. Stockton is implementing several "green" programs aimed at reducing energy use and associated GHG emissions. The City has also committed to development of a Climate Action Plan that would identify potential for GHG reduction city-wide as a result of its 2008 Settlement Agreement with the California Attorney General. Environmental Impacts Project Effects on Global Climate Change Emissions of GHG contributing to global climate change are attributable in large part to human activities associated with the industrial/manufacturing, utility, transportation, residential, and agricultural sectors, as defined by the California Energy Commission. With the passage of California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), CARB and local agencies have been promulgating regulations to reduce the statewide GHG emissions footprint back to 1990 levels by the year 2020. The primary GHG of concern is CO2, caused by the combustion of fossil fuels for transportation and power generation. Numerous efforts have been made to define appropriate treatment of global climate change issues in a CEQA context, but no uniform significance threshold has resulted. The proposed project involves a land use and increases in efficiency that are associated with reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The proposed project would support ongoing efforts in the Stockton area to comply with State recycling and waste reduction initiatives. Consolidation of the applicant's two existing recycling facilities onto the proposed project would result in general efficiencies in waste handling as well as reductions in transfer operations between the two sites and associated travel. The proposed project involves the daily operation of several on-site diesel-fueled equipment and related customer and truck traffic. The project emissions of CO2e were estimated by the applicant to be 1,060 tpy (or 962 metric tons per year). These emissions are not, however, new emissions but are the same or less than those emitted in conjunction with existing facility. Vehicular emission contributions should be reduced from the existing as a result of reduced trip length. While SJVAPCD has no specific guidance for thresholds of significance from mobile sources, CARB had drafted guidance in 2008 suggesting that a project emitting more 121339/ST011 R226 3-68 October 14, 2011 Copyright 2011 Kleinfelder