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The Center for Biological Diversity provides this input regarding
the initial results from the air quality and health impacts and
economic analyses, released at the April 20 workshop. The results
released so far are general with little detail, providing only a
summary of results. It is impossible to evaluate the health and
economics modeling results at this point without being provided the
underlying methods, model documentation, and detailed results. Our
comments here are therefore necessarily general and focus on
instances where the modeling assumptions appear to be faulty or
unsubstantiated, and we recommend ways to make the modeling
analyses as robust, science-based, and transparent as possible. We
urge the California Air Resources Board to release the details of
the modeling--the data inputs, detailed outputs, and the specific
assumptions--in order to receive more detailed comments from the
public and to modify the modeling and analysis as necessary, before
selecting a preferred alternative.