2004-04 RESOLUTION NO. 2004 -04
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND
TERRACE EXPRESSING THE CITY COUNCIL'S SUPPORT FOR
SENATE BILL 1397 (ESCUTIA), WHICH WOULD ENACT THE
LOCOMOTIVE EMISSIONS REDUCTION AND MITIGATION
PROGRAM
WHEREAS, the South Coast Air Basin is one of two "extreme nonattainment" air basins
in the United States and to achieve attainment of federal and state public health standards
requires extraordinary effort by federal, state and local regulatory authorities working in concert;
and
WHEREAS, federal and state health-based ambient air quality standards for ozone and
PM10 are exceeded regularly and by a wide margin in the South Coast Air Basin; and
WHEREAS, the federal Environmental Protection Agency has recently adopted more
stringent 8-hour ozone and PM2.5 standards that will require even greater emission reductions in
the South Coast Air Basin; and
WHEREAS, air pollution emissions from locomotives in the South Coast Air Basin
contribute significantly to exceedances of federal and state ozone and PM10 standards, as well as
to emissions of diesel exhaust, a toxic air contaminant; and
WHEREAS, in order to attain state and federal standards for ozone and PM2.5, it is
necessary that emissions from locomotives be controlled or otherwise mitigated; and
WHEREAS, the federal Environmental Protection Agency has authority to E dopt
regulations limiting emissions from locomotives, but state and local regulatory authori-y to
control emission from locomotives is restricted by federal law. In order to attain state and
federal ambient air quality standards, it is necessary that emissions from locomotives be
controlled or mitigated by the federal government or, if necessary, by state or local governments
using authorities available to them; and
WHEREAS, in 1998, the California Air Resources Board entered into a Memorandum
of Understanding with the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railroad Company, and the Union
Pacific Railroad Company, under which the railroads agreed to utilize locomotives in the South
Coast Air Basin that would meet certain emissions limitations; and
WHEREAS, in 2003, the South Coast Air Quality Management District adopted the
most recent revision to its Air Quality Management Plan. The 2003 Plan includes stringent
emissions standards for factories, power plants, on-road and off-road mobile sources and other
sources that are within the regulatory jurisdiction of the South Coast District and the California
Air Resources Board- including sources which, like locomotives, are powered by diesel engines.
The percentage of emission reductions that will be achieved by significant sources subject to
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state and local authority is substantially greater than the percentage of emissions reductions that
will be achieved by locomotives under existing federal regulations and the 1998 MOU; and
WHEREAS, the 2003 South Coast District Plan proposes a significant amount of
emissions reductions through means that are yet to be specifically determined; and
WHEREAS, unless and until the federal Environmental Protection Agency adopts
regulations requiring locomotives in the South Coast Air Basin to achieve all feasible emission
reductions as necessary to achieve federal clean air standards, the South Coast Air Quality
Management District should be authorized to adopt a locomotive mitigation fee for locomotive
emissions that is proportionate to the health and environmental harms resulting from those
emissions; and
WHEREAS, it is therefore necessary that legislation authorize the South Coast Air
Quality Management District to implement a locomotive emission reduction and mitigation
program.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT: THE CITY COUNCIL
HEREBY DECLARE AND RESOLVE THAT SENATE BILL 1937
1. is necessary to protect the health and welfare of our residents from cancer causing
toxic air pollutants, especially children and seniors;
2. is essential to reduce diesel emissions from locomotives in Southern California to
meet the deadline for clean air established by the federal government;
3. is critical in ensuring the burden for emission reductions in the region is not
unfairly placed on local businesses, and that significant future reductions are
achieved from locomotives;
4. ensures funding for mitigation measures to reduce emissions from trains,
associated sources and for programs to address accompanying health effects from
diesel emissions.
FURTHER RESOLVED, THE CITY COUNCIL HEREBY URGES CALIFORNIA
LEGISLATORS TO ENACT SB 1397 AS PROPOSED AND URGES THE GOVERNOR
TO SIGN IT INTO STATE LAW WITHOUT DELAY.
PASSED,APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 271h day of May, 2004.
ATTEST:
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City Clerk of the City ofArand Terrace Mayor Ythe Ci of Grand Terrace
and of the City Council thereof. and of the City Council thereof.
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I, Brenda Stanfill, City Clerk of the City of Grand Terrace, do hereby certify that though
foregoing Resolution was introduced and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the
City of Grand Terrace held on the 27"'day of May, 2004 by the following:vote:
AYES: COUNCILM MERS GARCIA AND LARKIN; MAYOR PRO TEM FERRE AND MAYOR HILKEY
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMMER CORTES
ABSTAIN: NONE
Brenda Stanfll
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM::
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John Harper I /
City Attorney V