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4. 2. Air
and coating, and vehicular emissions from on-site construction equipment and off-site
construction worker vehicle trips. The SCAQMD Handbook provides screening tables to
determine potential air quality impacts from construction. The SCAQMD minimum threshold
for potential significant adverse construction air quality impacts is 559,000 square feet of gross
floor area. The project has a gross floor area of 495,000 square feet and therefore is below the
SCAQMD screening level for construction impacts. This is not inconsistent with the Program
EIR, which states a significant but mitigable impact due to construction of all anticipated
development within the Redevelopment Area.
Regional Operational Impacts
The proposed project is located within the Redevelopment Area, based upon the variable
distribution of development discussed in Section 2, Project Overview. Therefore, its emissions
from post-construction occupancy of the project facility are contained in the emission estimates
generated for the Redevelopment Area as presented in Table 4 on page 28. The emissions
presented in Table 4 are based on CARB Urban Emission (URBEMIS3) model nms. The
URBEMIS model calculated emissions based on gross floor area. The project site floor area
represents approximately 3.33-percent of the area allocated in the Redevelopment Plan for
Industrial use. Emissions for the Restricted Industrial use were obtained from the URBEMIS3
printouts from the Program EIR1 3 , and the project related emissions were determined based
on the assumption that 3.33-percent of the emissions assigned to the Restricted Industrial land
use were allocated to this proposed project. These project-related emissions are presented in
Table 5 on page 30.
The Traffic/Circulation section of this document discusses the fact that the project will
generate higher levels of tripmaking than those associated with the Program EIR's analysis for
Restricted Industrial land use. Therefore, the project's emissions were recalculated using the
methodologies presented in the SCAQMD CEQA Air Quality Handbook, trip data from the
project specific traffic analysis, trip lengths from the Program EIR, and emission factors from
the CARB emission factor model EMFAC7-F. These emissions are presented in Table 5. The
calculations used in determining these emissions are included in Appendix A. The recalculated
emissions as presented, are approximately equal to or less than those originally calculated in the
Program EIR, even though the project is forecast to increase the number of trips over what was
originally allocated to the project. This defacto emission reduction is primarily attributable to
the workings of the URBEMIS3 model used to generate the emissions presented in the Program
EIR.
1.3 Program EIR. Final EIR Volume. Appendix G. Air Quality Worksheers.
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