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licensed Professional Chemical Engineer in the State of California (No. 5089). Responsibilities
include project management, air dispersion modeling, health risk assessment preparation, CEQA
document preparation, emission inventories development for industrial facilities, air and wastewater
permit application preparation, conducting compliance audits for industrial facilities, environmental
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report preparation to provide support to environmental litigation, expert testimony, and addressing
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Work I have completed includes the calculation and preparation of emission inventories
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for criteria pollutants, toxic air contaminants, and greenhouse gases; preparation of air permit
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applications; analysis of emission inventories for conformity to emission budgets and CEQA
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significance determinations; preparation of health risk assessments of facility and project emissions;
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preparation of air quality assessments; and, justification of reported air emissions for emission fees for
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facilities that include petroleum refineries, electroplating facilities, hazardous waste treatment facilities,
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defense contractors, military installations, marine terminals, engine manufacturers, paper products
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facilities. Performed air quality impacts analysis using multiple versions of the EMF AC emissions
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model for mobile sources, multiple versions of the URBEMIS emissions model for new development
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projects, emissions modeling using the U.S. EPA ISCST3 and AERMOD dispersion modeling software
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and CALINE for mobile sources, health risk assessment modeling software including ACE2588,
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Environmental Audit, Inc. (EAi) has examined the health risk assessments for the
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Archer School expansion project. Our letter of July 28, 2015 demonstrated that the HRA included in
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the Archer Draft EIR was incorrect, and that analysis was implicitly admitted by the numerous
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corrections set forth on the day of the final City Council vote on August 4, 2015 in Appendix F-2 to the
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The health risk analysis (HRA) for construction contained in the Final EIR, including the
last-minute submissions of "Errata 6" and the materials submitted by Latham & Watkins on August 3,
2015 is also inadequate and incorrect, and dangerously understate the cancer risks that will impact the
Archer schoolchildren as well as elderly neighbors immediately adjacent to the Archer project.
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Specifically, the HRA fails to use the correct emission factor for diesel particulate matter
(DPM) . It uses dangerously outdated health risk guidance for calculating cancer risks . These technical
and methodological errors very substantially underestimate the health risks posed to the "sensitive
populations" identified in current statewide guidance (schoolchildren and elderly adults) on and near
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In addition, the FEIR does not contain factual support for the conclusion that peak day
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air quality and health impacts will be no worse under the final 36-month construction schedule
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disclosed in the chart submitted with Errata 6 (AR 5: 140). Details such as were presented in Apps. C-1
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and C-2 to the DEIR are absolutely necessary to any acceptable analysis of air quality and health
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2015, as set forth in Errata 2, Archer decided to compress its construction activities from 74 months to
36 months - but until August 3, 2015 Archer did not disclose which of its project elements would now
overlap (see one-page chart at AR 5:140, included in Errata 6 and attached as Exhibit D), and even then
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did not disclose any of the necessary details that would allow responsible expert analysis of the air
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quality and health risk impacts of onsite construction equipment and the related arrivals and departures
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of construction vehicles.
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Among other changes, AR 5:140 reflects changes in the number of months that some of
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the original six project elements would now take. For example, Archer's original schedule presented
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that the North Wing Renovation work would be spread over 16 months, while Exhibit D shows that
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project element compressed into 14 months - and now would fully overlap the nearby work on the
underground parking garage/athletic fields, and the Multipurpose Facility.
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Despite the very significant changes in the construction schedule reflected in Exhibit D,
the only updated "analysis" pres ented to the City in Errata 6 consisted of "as sumptions and conclusions ,
without any of the absolutely necessary underlying data. Data in the form of Appendix C-1 and
Appendix C-2 to the DEIR are necessary for any scientifically reliable analysis of the amount of
nitrogen dioxide and airborne particles during the weeks of maximum air pollution and elevated cancer
risk. Those details have not been provided to the public or to the City authorities. In addition, to
determine the actual air quality impacts due to overlapping phases, the project would have to be
remodeled in CalEEMod.
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In Appendices C-1 and C-2 (and Exhibit C), it can be seen that when construction was to
be spread over 74 months, only two major elements of the Archer project would overlap in time - the
Underground Parking Garage/Athletic Field, and the Multipurpose Facility. In contrast, when the
project is compressed into 36 months, the North Wing Renovation work would now overlap those two
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As the first step in analyzing the impact of onsite construction equipment on airborne
toxins and health risks, one must total the equipment that is projected to be active onsite during the
elements that are planned to overlap.
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Emissions from arriving and departing construction vehicles are additive to those from
onsite construction equipment. As the first step in analyzing the impact of construction vehicles on
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airborne toxins and health risks, one must total the vehicles that are projected to arrive and depart during
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the elements that are planned to overlap. For example, in week 80, Appendix C-2 shows that 16
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concrete trucks (Class VII) will arrive and depart each day of that week to support the onsite activities
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for the underground parking structure/outdoor athletic fields, and another 10 concrete trucks for the
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Multipurpose Facility.
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This step of aggregating the vehicles by Class and calculating their emissions, and
aggregating emissions of the onsite construction equipment operating concurrently on different parts of
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the worksite, then leads to determining which weeks and days will have "peak" impacts as to NOx
emissions, particulate emissions, and health risks. The DEIR and FEIR present no such details and
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impacts due to overlapping phases, the project would have to be remodeled in CalEEMod. However,
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Health Risk Guidance. The State of California Office of Environmental Health Hazard
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have shown that young animals are more sensitiv e than adults to exposur e to many carcinogens ,
therefore, the new OEHHA methodology includes an Age Sensitivity Factor (ASF). The ASF for
fetuses in the third trimester up to children age two is ten times higher than an adult, and children two to
sixteen are three times higher. In February 2015, a Guidance Manual that included that the new data an
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Archer and the City used the outdated 2003 Guidance Manual in their HRA instead of the
updated scientific data, which uses outdated breathing rates and completely ignores ASF. This results in
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dangerously underestimating the cancer risks of the Archer construction project on the Archer
schoolchildren as well as nearby children and elderly residents. Archer's proximity to sensitive
receptors elevates the risks created by the project's construction activities. (See Exhibit A, a map the
city block that contains Archer with five apartment complexes nearby labeled A, B, C, D, E, and F.)
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City environmental review documents claim that the AQMD has not adopted the new
OEHHA guidance for CEQA purposes, and that the BIR correctly used the older OEHHA guidance.
Errata 5 at page 6 stated:
"Per the South Coast Air Quality Management District's (SCAQMD) direction, the analysi
was conducted consistent with SCAQMD's Risk Assessment Procedures for Rules 1401 and 212 and i
based on OEHHA 's Guidance Manual.from August 2003. Contrary to what is stated in this comment, th
SCAQMD has not adopted the new version of the Guidance Document for use in CEQA analyses.
According to Jillian Wong, Ph.D., SCAQMD CEQA Program Supervisor, SCAQMD is current/;
evaluating the new Guidance Manual and will start the public participation process this summer as the
develop recommendations on its use for SCAQMD CEQA analyses."
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Context is important; the email exchange between Eyestone and Jillian Wong
(SCAQMD) can be found at page ARO13180 in the administrative record. The actual question Eyestone
asked Jillan Wong was whether the SCAQMD had any guidance for construction health risk. The
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AQMD has never had any guidance specifically for construction health risk, but SCAQMD has
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absolutely adopted the new 2015 OEHHA guidance for both CEQA and permitting purposes. The
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approved (June 15, 2015) SCAQMD Rule 1401, which follows the new 2015 OEHHA guidance can be
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found on the SCAQMD website. Therefore, while an applicant does not have to offer a construction
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states "local air pollution control districts sometimes use the risk assessment guidelines for the Hot
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Spots program in permitting decisions for short-term projects such as construction." (Page 8-18 of
February 2015 Guidance.)
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The Archer FEIR uses scientifically outdated data used by OEHHA in guidance
promulgated in 2003, but superseded by Guidance OEHHA promulgated in 2015. Applying the updated
OEHHAGuidance could increasethe cancerrisk up to 10 times comparedto the old method for
"sensitivereceptors",and would increasethe cancer risk of due to constructionby three times for the
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I have examinedthe "Archer School For Girls Cancer Risk Contour"Diagramin the
DEIR (AR 7564.) A copy of this is includedas Exhibit B. I have comparedthis to the locationof
temporaryclassroomsset forth in an applicationsubmittedto the City July 24, 2015. (AR 118:13188.)
This location map is includedas ExhibitE. From comparisonof the two documents,even using the
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diagram,and higher still when the updatedbreathingrates and ASFs publishedby OEHHAare
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I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoingis true and correctto the best of my knowledgeand
is executedon November \~ , 2016 at Placentia,California.
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I am employed by Chatten-Brown & Carstens LLP in the County of Los Angeles, State of California.
I am over the age of 18 and not a party to the within action. My business address is 2200 Pacific Coast
Highway, Ste. 318, Hermosa Beach, CA . On November 14, 2016, I served the within documents:
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VIA UNITED STATES MAIL. I am readily familiar with this business' practice for
collection and processing of correspondence for mailing with the United States Postal Service.
On the same day that correspondence is placed for collection and mailing, it is deposited in
the ordinary course of business with the United States Postal Service in a sealed envelope with
postage fully prepaid. I enclosed the above-referenced document(s) in a sealed envelope or
package addressed to the person(s) at the address(es) as set forth below, and following
ordinary business practices I placed the package for collection and mailing on the date and at
the place of business set forth above.
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I declare that I am employed in the office of a member of the bar of this court whose direction the
service was made. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the above is
true and correct. Executed November 14, 2016 , at Hermosa Beach, California.
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Attorneys for City of Los Angeles
Michael N. Feuer
Terry Kaufmann Macias
Jennifer K. Tobkin
200 North Main Street, 70 I City Hall East
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Jennifer.tobkin @lacit y.org
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Sabrina Teller
Remy Moose Manley, LLP
555 Capitol Mall, Ste. 800
Sacramento, CA 9 5 814
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