Exhibit 2
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1 The City of Richmond owns and operates Terminals 2, 3, and the Point Potrero Marine Terminal (PPMT). The other port facilities along the Santa Fe and Harbor Channels are owned by private operators. Many of these facilities began operations before the City regulated the land use. When a property owner proposes a new use, they must apply to the City’s Planning Department. Planning reviews these application for consistency with the City’s policies including the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) The following summarizes current CEQA reviews within the area over the last 20 years.
1. Port of Richmond : Honda Port of Entry
Environnemental Impact Report (EIR), Volume I
EIR, Volume 2
Final EIR
2. Richmond Terminal Neat Ethanol Project
Initial Study
3. Svendsen’s Bay Marine West Yard
Initial Study Mitigated Negative Declaration (ISMND)
4. Port of Richmond: Terminal 3 Log Processing and Export Facility (Project canceled)
ISMND, 2016
ISMND, 2017
5. IMTT: Tank Installation Project
Initial Study /Mitigation Negative Declaration
Initial Study Mitigation Negative Declaration Addendum
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2 In addition, the City has completed technical studies for the channel area related to noise, as shown in the following.
Noise Monitoring of Port Operation Impacts to the Bayfront Community Memorandum, October 25, 2021: This memo presents a Technical Noise Assessment for the existing operations at the Levin Richmond Terminal (Coal Terminal privately owned) in the Richmond Port (Port) in the City of Richmond (City). Operations from other nearby commercial and industrial uses were also monitored and assessed in order to distinguish and/or account f or other potential sources of noise, besides port activities, that could elicit complaints.
Climate Air Action Plan (CAAP)
The goal of the Port of Richmond Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) is to develop and recommend feasible, cost-effective strategies and programs to reduce air emissions and health risks from operations at the Port of Richmond. , while allowing port development to continue bringing revenue and jobs to the City of Richmond. This CAAP builds and expands upon the Honda Port of Entry CAAP by: 1) encompassing the Port of Richmond public facility, including the Point Potrero Marine Terminal (PPMT); 2) accounting for new state, federal and international regulations of ocean‐ going vessels, harbor craft, trucks, rail and cargo‐handling equipment operating at California Ports; and 3) identifying specific grant funding and low‐cost financing available to the Port from the federal, state and regional agencies for goods movement, air quality and energy efficiency improvements.
In 2015 the Port provided a follow-up report 2015 CAAP progress report. The goal of the Report was to provide Richmond residents, city officials and other interested parties with an update on the progress that has been made on reducing air emissions and health risks from operations at the Port of Richmond since the adoption of The Port of Richmond Clean Air Action Plan in 2010.
The Port has not updated their CAAP since 2015. Under AB 32 (The Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006), the California Air Resources Board (CARB) must release an updated Climate Change Scoping Plan at least every five years. 2022 will be the fourth update. Staff plan to bring the Port to compliancy and will make the needed process to be in compliance.
Additionally, staff is in the process of refining information on Transparent Richmond that lists all businesses in the Port Priority Use Area the link is a draft of a map to be refined as we gather more information: https://www.transparentrichmond.org/dataset/Port-Map/j3nz-994z