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1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8' <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />211 <br />26 <br />27 <br />RESOLUTION NO. R.60-04 <br />A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLTON EXPRESSING THE <br />CITY COUNCIL'S ,SUPPORT FOR SENATE BILL 1397 (ESCUTIA), WHICH WOULD <br />ENACT THE LOCOMOTIVE EMISSIONS REDUCTION AND MITIGATION PROGRAM <br />WHEREAS, the South Coast Air Basin is one of two "extreme non -attainment' air <br />basins in, the United States and to achieve attainment of federal and state public health <br />standards requires extraordinary effort by federal, state and local regulatory authorities <br />working in concert; and <br />WHEREAS, federal and state health -based ambient air quality standards for ozone <br />and PM10 are exceeded regularly and by a wide margin in the South Coast Air Basin; and <br />WHEREAS, the federal Environmental Protection Agency has recently adopted more <br />stringent 8 -hour ozone and PM2.5 standards that will require even greater emission <br />reductions in the South Coast Air Basin; and <br />WHEREAS, air pollution emissions from locomotives in the South Coast Air Basin <br />contribute significantly to exceedances of federal and state ozone and PM10 standards, as <br />well as to emissions of diesel exhaust, a toxic air contaminant; and <br />WHEREAS, in order to attain state and federal standards for ozone and PM2.5, it is <br />necessary that emissions from locomotives be controlled or otherwise mitigated; and <br />WHEREAS, the federal Environmental Protection Agency has authority to adopt <br />regulations limiting emissions from locomotives, but state and local regulatory authority to <br />control emission from locomotives is restricted by federal law. In order to attain state and <br />federal ambient air quality standards, it is necessary that emissions from locomotives be <br />controlled or mitigated by the federal government or, if necessary, by state or local <br />governments using authorities available to them; and <br />WHEREAS, in 1998, the California Air Resources Board entered into a Memorandum <br />of Understanding with the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railroad Company, and the <br />1 <br />