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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all documents necessary for a Right of Entry Permit with the South Coast Air Quality Management District for the placement and monitoring of stationary air-monitoring equipment at the former Towing Yard located at
901 W. Anaheim Street. (District 1)
DISCUSSION
In early 2006, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) Governing Board approved the Clean Port Initiative, which calls for actions to be taken by the AQMD to accelerate efforts to clean up emissions associated with marine ports. One of the elements of the Clean Port Initiative is to conduct an enhanced air-monitoring program (Program) in and around the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles including the surrounding residential areas. The objective of the Program is to characterize the ambient air toxic and criteria pollutant concentrations and potential exposures in the port-community area. The Program will be conducted over an 18-month period at a minimum of six additional monitoring sites in the affected Wilmington and Long Beach areas. The Program will provide a characterization of the spatial distribution of ambient air concentrations of these important hazardous air pollutants in the surrounding communities and help to determine their sources.
A workplan outlining the tasks to be completed under the Program was prepared and the AQMD is in the process of securing the equipment and resources necessary to conduct the Program. The workplan also identifies the preferred locations where the Program will be conducted, the various air toxic compounds and air pollutants to be measured, the sampling frequency, the instruments to be deployed, the processes by which air samples are collected and analyzed and the reporting of the data.
One of the locations identified in the workplan is the former Towing Yard located at 901 W. Anaheim Street (see Exhibit "A"). The placement of the equipment is not anticipated to affect any current operation...
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