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arbcombo -- Draft Freight Locomotives Technology Assessment Released for Public Comment
Posted: 26 Apr 2016 07:53:32
The California Air Resources Board (ARB or Board) announces the release of the draft document “Technology Assessment: Freight Locomotives”. This draft technology assessment considers potential advanced locomotive technologies that could operate on the existing rail network with emissions well below the current national Tier 4 emission levels. ARB staff assessed several technologies that could potentially exceed Tier 4, and possibly achieve near-zero to zero emission levels in the future. These technologies include: Newly-built or retrofit of aftertreatment with on-board batteries, fuel cells (Proton Exchange Membrane or Solid Oxide with Gas Turbine); battery-powered locomotive or battery tenders; and freight railroad electrification. The draft technology assessment can be viewed and downloaded from the ARB’s technology and fuels assessment webpage at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/tech/report.htm. We encourage interested parties to submit comments on the draft technology assessment through the technology and fuels assessment web page for public comments at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/tech/techreport/comments.htm. Comments may be submitted through June 15, 2016. If you have questions regarding the draft technology assessment, please contact Ms. Elizabeth Yura, Chief, Emissions Assessment Branch, at (916) 322-8277, or at Elizabeth.Yura@arb.ca.gov. Background: California has made substantial progress in reducing emissions from mobile sources, but further reductions are needed to meet California’s air quality and climate goals. These goals include: •Meeting 2023 and 2031 ambient ozone air quality standards, which staff estimates will require an overall 80 percent reduction in NOx emissions below today’s levels in the South Coast air basin, with substantial reductions needed in the San Joaquin Valley and other non-attainment areas of the state as well; •Meeting the newly-proposed federal ozone standard; •Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels by 2020; •Achieving a 40 percent reduction in GHG emissions from 1990 levels by 2030; •Achieving an 80 percent reduction in GHG emissions from 1990 levels by 2050; •Reducing petroleum use in cars and trucks by up to 50 percent by 2030; and •Producing at least 50 percent of electricity from renewable sources by 2030. California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips. You are receiving this single arbcombo email because you are a subscriber to or have made a public comment to one or more of the following lists: ej, gmbond, loco, ms-mailings, railyard, sfti.