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1 idling vehicles and is an indirect emissions impact of increasing rail traffic in the Alameda <br />2 Corridor and Alameda Corridor -East. Funds obtained through a locomotive emissions <br />3 mitigation program could be utilized to establish additional grade separations, as well as <br />4 other control strategies; and <br />5 <br />WHEREAS, unless and until the United States Environmental Protection Agency <br />6 <br />adopts regulations requiring locomotives in the South Coast Air Basin to achieve all feasible <br />7 <br />emission reductions as necessary to achieve federal clean air standards, the South Coast <br />8 <br />9 Air Quality Management District should be authorized to adopt a locomotive mitigation fee <br />10 for locomotive emissions that is proportionate to the health and environmental harms <br />11 resulting from those emissions, provided such mitigation fee does not result in a shift or <br />12 increase in emissions to other parts of the Basin; and <br />13 WHEREAS, it is therefore necessary that legislation authorize the South Coast Air <br />14 Quality Management District to implement a locomotive emission reduction and mitigation <br />15 program; and a retrofit requirement for rail yard equipment; and <br />16 WHEREAS, it is therefore necessary that legislation authorize the California Air <br />17 Resources Board to implement a statewide remote sensing program to detect high polluting <br />18 locomotives operating in the state; <br />19 <br />NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLTON DOES <br />20 <br />HEREBY RESOLVE that Assembly Bill 1222, Assembly Bill 888 and Senate Bill 459 are <br />21 <br />22 necessary to protect the health and welfare of our residents from cancer causing toxic air <br />23 pollutants, especially children and seniors; and essential to reduce diesel emissions from <br />24 locomotives in Southern California to meet deadlines between 2010 and 2021 for clean air <br />25 established by federal government; and critical in ensuring the burden for emission <br />26 reductions in the region is not unfairly placed on local businesses, and that significant future <br />27 reductions are achieved from currently under -regulated locomotives and rail yard <br />281 <br />