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Dear Ms. Mary Nichols and Honorable California Air Pollution
Control District Board Members:

I've lived in Santa Barbara 43 years. The increasing number of
large cargo ships traveling off our coast produce one of the most
significant volumes of GHG, NOx and toxic air emissions that impact
our coastal communities. Ship strikes also pose a threat to whales.


Slowing down cargo ships meets multiple objectives in your Draft
Cap-and-Trade Investment Plan including: reducing GHG emissions and
other air pollutants, improving public health, and better
protecting whales. I strongly support including vessel speed
reduction in your Final Plan as a priority for funding and request
Cap-and-Trade money be directed to the Vessel Speed Reduction
Initiative. 

Thank you,
Respectfully,
Brian G. Trautwein