Community Air Risk Evaluation (CARE) program 2012 accomplishments.

• Continued working with the Air District’s Strategic Incentives Division to target incentive funds in the six impacted communities identified through the CARE program.
• Completed technical analysis and modeling in support of the San Francisco Community Risk Reduction Plan, or CRRP, which was presented at the California Asthma Summit. Based on this analysis, San Francisco is moving forward with proposed short-term and near-term mitigation measures to reduce emissions and exposures in areas that are above their city-wide standards. The Air District continues to offer technical support to other local agencies in developing CRRPs and has begun modeling stationary sources for the City of San Jose. The Air District is working with the City of Hayward to support their efforts to complete a CRRP by providing technical guidance and some modeling inputs.
• Worked with Air District planners in support of the Sustainable Communities Strategy environmental clearance document, incorporating local risk and hazard data from Air District screening tools.
• Worked with Air District planners to provide assistance to cities and project leads in assessing and reducing impacts of new development projects.
• Developed a draft updated methodology for identifying areas in the Bay Area most impacted by air pollution. The Air District hosted a workshop in which representatives from Cal/EPA, UC Berkeley, and the San Francisco Department of Public Health presented their methodologies for identifying impacted communities.
• Supported the work of researchers at UC Berkeley to repeat mobile van sampling of diesel truck exhaust plumes in West Oakland to ensure that emission reductions from drayage truck retrofits and replacements are maintained over time.