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CEQA Guidelines §15126.4(a) requires lead
agencies to consider feasible mitigation measures to avoid or
substantially reduce a project's significant environmental impacts.
Pursuant to the SCAQMD Governing Board's
Clean Port Initiative (January 6, 2005), SCAQMD staff was directed to make
full use of the CEQA process to ensure that impacts from proposed projects
are mitigated to the maximum extent feasible. In response to the Governing
Board's directive, comprehensive tables of mitigation measures are being
compiled to assist the CEQA practitioner in reducing emissions from a wide
range of proposed projects.
Tables identifying mitigation measures
include those for off-road engines,
on-road engines, harbor craft, ocean going
vessels, locomotives and fugitive dust. Emissions from these sources can be mitigated using a variety of
different technologies including, but not limited to, the following: repowering
old engines; installing emission control technologies such as diesel
oxidation catalysts, diesel particulate filters, or selective catalytic
reduction; and using alternative technologies such as electrification,
clean fuels, or water/fuel emulsions.
Mitigation measures and associated control
efficiencies for off-road engines,
on-road engines, harbor craft, ocean going vessels,
locomotives and fugitive dust have been
compiled, and can be viewed by clicking the respective
links below .
Mitigation measures for ground support
equipment are also being tabulated. The mitigation measure tables are
considered "living documents" intended to be updated as necessary.
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