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City of Santa Ana <br />Environmental Checklist <br />SCAQMD's CEQA Air Quality Handbook. Worksheets are provided in Appendix A. <br />< Area sources include landscape equipment emissions and miscellaneous sources (e.g., detergents and <br />cleaning compounds). <br />Source: ICF 2012. <br />c, Result in a cumulatively considerable net increase of any criteria pollutant for which the <br />project region is a nonattainment area for an applicable federal or state ambient air quality <br />standard (including releasing emissions that exceed quantitative thresholds forozone <br />precursors)? <br />Less-than-Significant Impact The SCAQMD's approach for assessing cumulative impacts is based <br />on the AQMP forecasts of attainment of ambient air quality standards in accordance with the <br />requirements of the federal and state Clean Air Acts. As discussed earlier in Ill.a., the proposed <br />project would be consistent with the AQMP, which is intended to bring the Basin into attainment for <br />all criteria pollutants.' In addition, the mass regional emissions calculated for the proposed project <br />presented earlier in Table 3-5 (regional construction emissions) and Table 3-6 (regional operations <br />emissions) are less than the applicable SCAQMD daily significance thresholds, which factor in <br />cumulative effects and are designed to assist the region in attaining the applicable state and national <br />ambient air quality standards. As such, cumulative impacts would be less than significant, and no <br />mitigation measures would be necessary. <br />d. Expose sensitive receptors to substantial pollutant concentrations? <br />Less-than-Significant Impact with Mitigation Incorporated The proposed project would <br />contribute to localized air pollutant emissions during construction (short-term) and project <br />operations (long-term). A discussion of the project's localized potential construction- and <br />operations-period air quality impacts is provided below. <br />Local Construction Impacts <br />SCAQMD has developed a set of mass emissions rate look-up tables that can be used to evaluate <br />localized impacts that may result from construction-period emissions. If the onsite emissions from <br />proposed construction activities are below the Localized Significance Threshold (LST) emission <br />levels found in the LST mass rate look-up tables for the project site's SRA, then project emissions <br />would not have the potential to cause a significant localized air quality impact. <br />As discussed previously, mass daily emissions during construction were compiled using the <br />Ca1EEMod emissions inventory model. However, only onsite construction emissions were <br />considered for purposes of comparison with the LST mass rate look-up tables (consistent with <br />SCAQMD LST Guidelines, offsite delivery/haul truck activity and employee trips were not <br />considered in the evaluation of localized impacts). A conservative estimate of the project's <br />construction-period onsite mass emissions is presented in Table 3-7. As provided in Table 3.7, <br />2 CEQA Guidelines Section 15064(h)(3) states "A lead agency may determine that a project's incremental <br />contribution to a cumulative effect is not cumulatively considerable if the project will comply with the <br />requirements in a previously approved plan or mitigation program which provides specific requirements that will <br />avoid or substantially lessen the cumulative problem (e.g, water quality control plan, air quality plan, integrated <br />waste management plan) within the geographic area in which the project is located. Such plans or programs must <br />be specified in law or adopted by the public agency with jurisdiction over the affected resources through a public <br />review process to Implement, interpret, or make specific the law enforced or administered by the public agency." <br />The Bat Nha Buddhist Meditation Center 3 21 June 2013 <br />initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration ¢E 00215.12 <br />31 C-74