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Sacramento Ozone Summit
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On October 7, 2002, Rex Bloomfield, Chair of the Placer County Air Pollution Control District and the Placer County Board of Supervisors, convened the Sacramento Ozone Summit (SOS). His motivation came from the extended period of very poor air quality between August 11 – 16, 2002. SOS brought together elected officials and agency heads from around the region to develop concepts for strategies that could be implemented quickly to prevent similar poor air quality days during the next ozone season. SOS resulted in direction to the staff of the region’s air districts to develop model ordinance language that could be adopted by the various local government agencies and implemented immediately.
City of Sacramento's Law and Legislation Committee approves Green Contracting The City of Sacramento's Law and Legislation Committee approved a Green Contracting pilot project on June 21, 2005 which will affect vendors with City contracts of $250,000 or more. The protocol, which takes effect no later than January 1, 2006, requires the vendors to report engine information regarding on and off-road vehicles used in the contract, to the AQMD. The reporting requirement will be in effect for 24 months, at which time the City will consider whether to take further measures to require vendors doing business with the city to clean up their vehicle fleets. Additional information is found in the staff report to the Committee (PDF 32 Kb) AQMD Adopts Support Resolution On May 22, 2003, the Sacramento Metropolitan AQMD Board of Directors adopted Resolution No. 2003-031 (PDF 20 Kb) in support of the model ordinance language. Placer Board of Supervisors Adopts Ozone Reduction Ordinance On November 4, 2003 the Placer County Board of Supervisors adopted an ozone reduction ordinance and policies The ordinance will establish a prohibition on the idling of on-and-off road engines under specified circumstances. The policies will encourage Placer County contractors to operate low-emission vehicles and will also establish a Low-Emission Vehicle Program regarding the purchase and retrofit of vehicles, which make up the Placer County Fleet. Sacramento City Council Enacts Anti-idling Ordinance On September 28, 2004 the Sacramento City Council enacted an anti-idling ordinance within the city. The ordinance will prohibit heavy-duty on-road vehicles (over 14,000 pounds) and off-road construction and commercial equipment (over 50 horsepower) from idling more than five minutes at one time. The anti-idling ordinance is projected to reduce smog-forming emissions in the City of Sacramento by 1,400 pounds per day, the equivalent of removing 70,000 cars and trucks from the area.
The Sacramento Metropolitan AQMD's Mobile Source Division staff took the lead in organizing a working group, drafting model ordinance language, and managing the comment process from affected parties. The working group consisted of representatives from the Sacramento Metropolitan AQMD, Yolo/Solano AQMD, Placer County APCD, City of Woodland Public Works Department, Placer Hills School District, and Teichert Aggregates. If implemented across the entire Sacramento Federal Nonattainment Area, the three ordinances will reduce NOx emissions by over 3 tons per day and diesel particulate matter emissions by over 100 lbs per /day. This is equivalent to removing over 150,000 cars from the region. The idling ordinance will also save about 8 million gallons of diesel fuel annually and has the potential to reduce engine maintenance costs by up to $2000 per year per vehicle through reduced idling and excess engine wear and tear. Idling uses more fuel and damages the engine more than stopping and restarting the engine. Language was developed by the Working Group for three model ordinances:
Please contact any of the following staff for further information on model
ordinances.
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