# Presentation: 114210

## Mid-Ohio Diesel Collaborative:

*How Industry, Enviros, Health Groups, and Government Can Work*
*Together to Achieve Clean Air*

**Notes:**
DAVID STARTS HERE

## Presentation Overview

- Project Background
- Collaborative Approach
- Third-Party Facilitation
- Project Structure
- Lessons Learned
- End Product
- Next Steps

**Notes:**
Why should we be concerned about diesel emissions in central Ohio
Summarize the diesel emission control strategies that were developed as a result of this project 
State the case for implementation of the recommended strategies
Next phase of the project, if approved by the commission
Open the floor for questions and feedback

## Project Background

- Significant source of NOx, VOCs, and PM2.5
- Respiratory health: lung inflammation, premature lung aging, and asthma
- Premature death, aggravation of cardiovascular and respiratory disease
- At-risk populations:
- Children, seniors, and individuals with respiratory illnesses
- 10 percent of population has asthma or other respiratory disease
- Two-thirds in urban communities

**Diesel Exhaust and Health**

## Project Background

- EPA Health Assessment:
- diesel exhaust is “likely” to be carcinogenic to humans
- Benzene, formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, 1,3-butadine, acrolein and dioxin

**Diesel Exhaust and Health**

## Project Background

- How does nonattainment label impact Central Ohio’s economy?
- Transportation hub
- Freeze Federal transportation funding
- Significant new construction growth
- Additional emissions offsets required
- Significant job losses in manufacturing sector

## Collaborative Approach

- Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO)
- Project Goal:
-   Collaboratively develop recommendations that will guide the region in significantly reducing NOx and PM2.5 emissions from diesels in Central Ohio

## Collaborative Approach

- Value of Collaboration:
- Resources
- Technical expertise
- Identify barriers early
- Well thought out end product
- Final recommendations endorsed by broad coalition of stakeholders

## Third-Party Facilitation

- Hired facilitator through EPA’s Conflict Prevention and Resolution Center (CPRC)
- http://www.epa.gov/adr/cprc_about.html
- Value of third-party facilitation:
- Neutrality critical to collaborative process
- Participation
- Ensured stakeholders had equal opportunity to contribute ideas
- Brokered compromise on difficult issues
- Project Management:
- Documented conversations
- Held participants accountable

## Project Structure

- Four Work Groups:
- Diesel emissions inventory
- Matrix of control measures
- Quantify cost/benefit
- Recommendations and implementation
- Steering Committee:
- Representative of diverse stakeholders
- Time commitment
- Produced document

## Lessons Learned

- Somewhat difficult to maintain participation
- Data collection took longer than expected
- Voluntary nature of project

## End Product

- SUCCESS!
- Issued recommendations in three areas:
- On-road diesel vehicles
- tractor-trailers, dump trucks, school buses
- Non-road diesels
- construction equipment – emission performance incentives in public construction contracts
- Idle reduction policies and technology
- anti-idling laws, truck stop electrification, APU’s
- Report:
- http://airquality.morpc.org/diesel-subcmt.html

## End Product

- Implemented recommendations to date:
- City of Columbus, anti-idling policy, pre-heaters, contract provisions
- Midwest Clean Diesel Initiative Grant
- OEPA School Bus Retrofit Program, Adopt a School Bus Program
- State pilot APU loan program for trucking companies
- Passed legislation creating a State diesel financing program for DERA

## Next Steps...

- State Diesel Emission Reduction Program
- Challenges
- Convince legislative leadership to invest in emission reduction programs
- Ohio’s struggling manufacturing sector
- Momentum
- New administration
- Senator Voinovich – DERA
- Need PM2.5 SIP strategies
- Diesel recommendations have support of industry, health orgs, environmental groups, and local government

## Contact Information

- David Abel
- Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission
- Air Quality Program Coordinator
- 614-233-4197
- dabel@morpc.org
- Website:
- http://airquality.morpc.org/diesel-subcmt.html