Mobile Sources Forum Archive

Mission

• Oversee Technical and Scientific Investigations That Exist to Reduce Mobile Source Emissions Now and Into the Future to Protect Visibility in the Western United States and on the Colorado Plateau. These Options Include the Vehicle Itself, the Fuel, and Local Transportation. Development of a Mobile Source Emissions Inventory is an Essential Task to this Goal.

Subcommittees

Fuel/Vehicle Subcommittee

• Adopt 49-State LEV Standards
• Heavy Duty Vehicle Standards
• Off-road Vehicle Standards
• Broader Application of Clean Fuels
• Diesel Locomotives, Boats, Airplanes, Federal Vehicles
• Improved Control of Evaporative Emissions
• Clean Fuel Demonstration Zones
• Pricing and Incentive Approaches
• Inspection Program for Heavy Duty Vehicles
• Vehicle Maintenance
• Retiring High Emitting Vehicles

Emissions Inventory Subcommittee
Develop an Updated Mobile Source Emissions Inventory

1. Develop a 1999 Baseline Inventory
2. Grow the Inventory to 2040 and Express in 5 Year Intervals
3. Show the Uncertainties Associated with the Out-Year Projections

Travel Subcommittee

• Targeted Local Actions
• Incentives for Innovative and Effective Approaches
• Better Integration of Transportation, Land Use, and Air Quality Planning
• Establish Local Mobile Source Emissions Budget for Selected Major Urban Areas

Tasks and Deliverables

Task I: Baseline Mobile Source Inventory Development--Documentation of Mobile Source Emissions

• Deliverable: Report Documenting "What are Today's Mobile Source Emissions?"
• Timing:May 1999 - November, 1999
• Funding:$250,000

Task II: Emissions Forecasting Element

• Deliverable: Report Defining Grown Inventory and Process Used. Calibrate Future Year Inventory with Current Practices to Improve Reliability of Growth Projections
• Timing:January, 2000 - June, 2000
• Funding:$200,000

Task III: Develop an Emissions Target and Options For Reducing Mobile Source Emissions

• Deliverable:Report Answering "What will the Emissions Need to be in the Future to Ensure Regional Haze and WRAP Goals are Achieved?" Recommend Strategy Including Implementation Options.
• Timing:January, 2000 - December, 2000
• Funding:$400,000

Task IV: Public Input, Response, and Recommendations to WRAP

• Deliverable: Meetings to Accept Public Comment on Recommendations, Strategies, Options and Analysis Used in the Report
• Timing:January, 2001 - July, 2001
• Funding:$50,000

Government

• U. S. EPA
• U. S. DOE
• Federal Highway Administration
• U. S. Air Force
• State Air Quality Agencies
• Local Metropolitan Planning Organizations

Environmental

• Sierra Club
• American Lung Association
• Environmental Coalition

Academia

• UC Riverside
• Sierra Research
• Industry
• Petroleum Industry (WSPA, Chevron,,Small refiners)
• Auto Industry (Chrysler, Ford, Association of International Automobile Manufacturers)
• Trucking Industry

Utilities

• Public
  • Pedestrian Planner
• Tribal
  • Buffalo Energy
  • Morongo Indians

Liaisons

• DEQ, Utah
• DEQ, Arizona
• U. S. EPA
• National Tribal Environmental Council

• Task 1 Baseline Inventory Development $250,000
• Task 2 Forecasting Element $200,000
• Task 3 Emission Target and Emission $400,000

Reduction Options

• Task 4 Public Input $5,000

Total$900,000