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Despite these recommendations, asthma and other non -cancer, freeway -related health risks were not <br />assessed in Exhibit 11 to the Staff Report. No mention of additional health risks, including asthma, are <br />made in the Staff Report or in the 2018 EIR. Rather, Exhibit 11, in a section entitled "Potential Cancer <br />and Non -Cancer Risks" relies on a single health impact outcome, cancer, to conclude that health impacts <br />would be less than significant: <br />"For carcinogenic exposures resulting from exposure to toxics from the freeway, the summation <br />of risk for the maximum exposed residential receptor totaled 3.58 in one million and will not <br />exceed the SCAQMD significance threshold of 10 in one million" (p. 1-46). <br />An EIR should be prepared to include an assessment of all risks faced by residents at the Project not only <br />cancer, especially to sensitive groups, such as newborns and the elderly. Because of the proximity to the <br />1-5 and the 55 freeways, all feasible mitigation should be considered in the EIR to reduce health impacts <br />to people living at the project. Feasible mitigation, implemented at other Southern California projects <br />adjacent to freeways include: <br />• Disclose to residents the potential health impacts from living in proximity to the 1-5 and 55 <br />freeways; <br />• Installation, use, and maintenance of filtration systems with at least a Minimum Efficiency <br />Reporting Value (MERV) 15; <br />• Lead Agency verification and certification of the implementation the filtration systems; <br />• Lead Agency verification of maintenance to include manufacturer's recommended filter <br />replacement schedule; <br />• Disclosure to residents that opening windows will reduce the health -protectiveness of the filter <br />systems. <br />7 <br />