2.
Response
to
Comments
2.9
Individual
Responses
to
Comments
from
Organizations
remediation
and
Title
27
landfill
closure,
are
obligated
to
prevent
the
spread
of
hazardous
waste
and
leachate
in
accordance
with
risk-based
cleanup
goals
designed
to
protect
human
health
and
environment.
Because
sea
level
rise
can
be
reasonably
forecasted,
it
will
need
to
be
taken
into
account
in
relation
to
remedial
technologies
and
monitoring
.
The
Draft
EIR
section
cited
in
this
comment
addresses
greenhouse
gas
emissions,
which
are
identified
as
a
cause
of
global
climate
change
and
sea
level
rise.
The
projected
rise
in
sea
level
is
not
relevant
to
the
analysis
of
greenhouse
gas
emissions,
and
is
therefore
not
discussed
in
Section
4.F,
Greenhouse
Gas
Emissions
.
Estimated
sea
level
rise
and
its
effects
on
the
Baylands
is,
however,
addressed
in
Draft
EIR
Section
4.H,
Hydrology
and
Water
Quality
.
The
specific
text
that
Comment
refers
to
in
relation
to
global
warming
is
specific
to
average
temperature,
which
is
not
site-specific.
The
intent
of
this
text
is
to
inform
the
reader
of
the
underlying
consideration
relative
to
climate
change.
All
values
for
GHG
emissions
reported
in
Section
4.F,
Greenhouse
Gas
Emissions
,
of
the
Draft
EIR
are
in
terms
of
metric
tons,
not
short
tons.
The
text
is
revised
in
five
locations
of
pages
4.F-3
and
4.F-4
to
add
the
term
“metric”
in
the
discussion
of
global,
U.S.,
state
and
regional
GHG
inventory
estimates,
as
follows:
Worldwide
emissions
of
GHGs
in
2004
were
30
billion
metric
tons
of
CO
2
e
per
year
(UNFCCC,
2012).
In
2009,
the
United
States
emitted
about
6.7
billion
metric
tons
of
CO
2
e
or
about
21
metric
tons
per
year
per
person.
Of
the
four
major
sectors
nationwide
--
residential,
commercial,
industrial,
and
transportation
--
transportation
accounts
for
the
highest
fraction
of
GHG
emissions
(approximately
33
percent);
these
emissions
are
entirely
generated
from
direct
fossil
fuel
combustion
(U.S.
EPA,
2011).
In
2004,
California
emitted
approximately
550
million
metric
tons
of
CO
2
e,
or
about
6
percent
of
the
U.S.
emissions.
In
the
San
Francisco
Bay
Area,
the
transportation
sector
and
industrial/commercial
sector
represent
the
largest
sources
of
GHG
emissions,
accounting
for
36.4
percent
each
of
the
Bay
Area’s
95.8
million
metric
tons
of
CO
2
e
in
2007.
The
first
sentence
of
this
paragraph
allocates
36.4
percent
each
to
the
transportation
sector
and
the
industrial/commercial
sector.
Thus,
the
combined
contribution
of
these
two
sectors
Brisbane
Baylands
Final
EIR
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2015