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Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Technical Report Griffith Energy Storage Project 2.2.3.3 Bay Area Air Quality Management District The BAAQMD manages air quality within the Alameda County. The BAAQMD adopts and enforces controls on stationary sources of air pollutants through its permit and inspection programs. The BAAQMD develops regulations to improve air quality and protect the health and welfare of Alameda County residents and their environment. The district also monitors air quality, prepares clean air plans, responds to citizen complaints concerning air quality, and regulates agricultural burning. BAAQMD regulations include permit requirements, emissions limits for specific source categories, requirements for open burning, and air toxics control measures for several source categories, including stationary compression ignition engines. There are no stationary sources proposed for the Project. The BAAQMD regulates nuisance conditions in Rule 200, which states that: No person shall discharge from any non-vehicular source such quantities of air contaminants or other material which cause injury, detriment, nuisance, or annoyance to any considerable number of persons or to the public or which endanger the comfort, repose, health or safety of any such persons or the public or which cause or have a natural tendency to cause injury or damage to business or property. No other BAAQMD rules are applicable to the Project. 2017 Clean Air Plan The clean air strategy of the BAAQMD includes preparing regional air quality plans, writing and enforcing regulations concerning sources of air pollution, issuing permits and inspecting stationary sources, responding to citizen complaints, monitoring air quality and meteorological conditions, awarding grants, and assisting local governments in addressing climate change (BAAQMD 2017a). The most recent air quality plan adopted by the BAAQMD, titled Bay Area 2017 Clean Air Plan: Spare the Air, Cool the Climate (Clean Air Plan; BAAQMD 2017b), is the applicable air quality plan for projects in Alameda County. The 2017 Clean Air Plan provides an integrated, multipollutant control strategy to reduce emissions of Os, particulates, air toxics, and greenhouse gases (GHG). In addition to the regional Clean Air Plan, Alameda County has adopted a local climate action plan to reduce GHG emissions (Alameda County 2014). The BAAQMD is responsible for preparing plans to attain ambient air quality standards in the SFBAAB. The BAAQMD prepares ozone attainment plans for the national ozone standard and clean air plans for the California standard, both in coordination with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG). The 2017 Clean Air Plan addresses nonattainment of the federal and state ozone standards in the SFBAAB, nonattainment of federal and state PM,o standards, and nonattainment of the state PM2.5 standard. The 2017 control strategy fulfills the state's ozone planning requirements, including all feasible measures to reduce emissions of ozone precursors (e.g., ROGs and NOx)and reduce transport of ozone and its precursors to neighboring air basins. In addition, the Clean Air Plan builds on and enhances the air district's efforts to reduce emissions of fine particulate matter and toxic air contaminants. The 2017 Clean Air Plan establishes a program of rules and regulations directed at reducing air pollutant emissions and achieving California and national air quality standards. The plan's pollutant control strategies are based on the latest scientific and technical information and planning assumptions, updated emission inventory methodologies for various source categories, and the latest population growth projections and vehicle miles traveled (VMT) projections for the region. The 2017 Clean Air Plan defines a control strategy that the BAAQMD and its partners will implement to: OTETRA TECH 14 July 2023