in 72.8 percent. Electricity/co-generation sources account for about 15.9 percent of the Bay Area’s GHG emissions, followed by residential fuel usage at about 7.1 percent. Off-road equipment and agricultural/farming sources currently account for approximately three percent and 1.2 percent, respectively, of the total.
[See page 5-329 for the original comment] The following text is added to page 4.F-6 of the Draft EIR following the two bullet points regarding the endangerment finding:
In making the endangerment finding, the Administrator considered how elevated concentrations of the well-mixed greenhouse gases and associated climate change affect public health by evaluating the risks associated with changes in air quality, increases in temperatures, changes in extreme weather events, increases in food- and water-borne pathogens, and changes in aeroallergens. It was determined that the evidence concerning adverse air quality impacts provides strong and clear support for an endangerment finding. Increases in ambient ozone are expected to occur over broad areas of the country, and they are expected to increase serious adverse health effects in large population areas that are and may continue to be in nonattainment. (Federal Register, Volume 74 No. 239, 2009).
[See page 5-329 for the original comment] The cited text is presented verbatim from the state CEQA Guidelines.
[See page 5-329 for the original comment] As stated in the Draft EIR on page 4.B-14, BAAQMD is no longer recommending use of its 2011 thresholds as a generally applicable measure of a project’s significant air quality impacts, and lead agencies are not required to use these thresholds in their environmental documents. However, nothing in the court’s decision prohibits an agency from using the thresholds so long as substantial evidence supports that decision. Therefore, BAAQMD identifies a number of resources for lead agencies to consider in their determination regarding whether the 2011 thresholds may be used to assess a project’s impacts, including BAAQMD’s 1999 Thresholds of Significance, the CEQA handbooks and guidelines of other air quality districts in California, a white paper on CEQA and Climate Change prepared by the California Air Pollution Control Officers Association (CAPCOA) in 2008, and BAAQMD’s 2009 document Revised Draft Options and Justification Report California Environmental Quality Act Thresholds of Significance.
Based on the foregoing substantial evidence, the City of Brisbane determined that the 2011 BAAQMD thresholds were appropriate for use in the Draft EIR.
[See page 5-329 for the original comment] Page 3-7 of the Draft EIR Project Description states that a “portion of the Project Site west of the Caltrain line is