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The Air Resources Board (ARB/Board) staff invites you to
participate in public meetings in Southern California to provide
input on draft railyard-specific commitments that ARB would
request from Union Pacific Railroad (UP) and BNSF Railway (BNSF).
  The commitments would establish enforceable requirements,
tracking mechanisms, and deadlines to accelerate reductions of
diesel particulate matter (PM) emissions at four high priority
railyards in Southern California.  The purpose is to reduce the
health risk from exposure to diesel PM in communities near the
railyards.  

The four high priority railyards are:  BNSF San Bernardino, BNSF
Hobart, UP Commerce, and UP Intermodal Container Transfer
Facility (ICTF)/Dolores.  Key elements of the draft commitments
would require the railroads to:  

(a)   Achieve the expected benefits from existing regulations
and agreements from 2011 to 2020, regardless of growth. 
(b)   Reduce diesel PM emissions by 85 percent by 2020 (relative
to 2005 levels) at each railyard.
(c)   Submit annual emission inventories and periodic emission
reduction plans.

The draft railyard-specific commitments and ARB staff’s basis
for the commitments are available at: 
http://www.arb.ca.gov/railyard/commitments/commitments.htm.

The public meetings will be held in Commerce on Monday June 7
and in San Bernardino on Wednesday June 9. The public meeting
notice is posted at the website above.


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