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San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District Page 3 District Reference No.20210676 July 14,2021 Valley. The District recently adopted the 2018 PM2.5 Plan which includes significant new reductions from HHD Trucks, including emissions reductions by 2023 through the implementation of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) Statewide Truck and Bus Regulation, which requires truck fleets operating in California to meet the 2010 0.2 g/bhp-hr NOx standard by 2023. Additionally, to meet the federal air quality standards by the 2020 to 2024 attainment deadlines, the District's Plan relies on a significant and immediate transition of heavy duty truck fleets to zero or near-zero emissions technologies, including the near-zero truck standard of 0.02 g/bhp-hr NOx established by the California Air Resources Board. For development projects which typically generate a high volume of heavy duty truck traffic (e.g. warehouse or distribution center), there are heavy duty trucks traveling to-and-from from the project location at longer trip length distances for potential distribution. To reduce impacts from operational mobile source emissions, the District recommends that the following clean air measures be considered for inclusion in the environmental document/assessment: • Advise fleets associated with Project operational activities to utilize the cleanest available HHD truck technologies, including zero and near-zero (0.02 g/bhp-hr NOx) technologies as feasible. • Advise all on-site service equipment (cargo handling, yard hostlers, forklifts, pallet jacks, etc.) to utilize zero-emissions technologies as feasible. • Advise fleets associated with future development projects to be subject to the best practices (i.e. eliminating unnecessary idling). In addition, the District recommends that the County include clean air measures to reduce project related operational impacts through incorporation of design elements, for example, increased energy efficiency, reducing vehicle miles traveled, etc. More information on mitigation measures can be found at: http://www.valleyair.org/transportation/cega idx.htm. 1 e) Proiect Related Operational Emissions— Truck Routing Truck routing involves the path/roads heavy-duty trucks take to and from their destination. The air emissions from heavy-duty trucks can impact residential communities and sensitive receptors. The District recommends the environmental document/assessment evaluate heavy-duty truck routing patterns to help limit emission exposure to residential communities and sensitive receptors. More specifically, this measure would