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Environmental Services Qualifications <br />KEY SERVICE AREAS <br />Air Quality and AB-32 Compliance Services <br />MBA provides a complete range of air quality services to support <br />California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the National <br />Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documents and air quality <br />regulatory requirements. <br />Staff performs air quality analyses and modeling for a broad range <br />of project types to determine project impacts and identify feasible, <br />cost-effective mitigation measures to reduce them. Our air quality <br />regulatory compliance services help ensure projects keep up with <br />rapidly changing rules and regulations, including the addition of AB- <br />32 (Greenhouse Gas Emissions) Analyses. As a matter of fact, MBA co-authored the Association of <br />Environmental Professional's White Paper on Global Climate Change and MBA staff are consistently called <br />upon to lecture on this complex, evolving topic. <br />We have the technical expertise to ensure our environmental documents contain thorough environmental <br />analysis and explicit documentation of all data sources and research contacts. All research, documentation, <br />and environmental assessment techniques are in full compliance with legal requirements. Our approach <br />reduces the potential for a legal challenge to be successful. <br />MBA can provide the following air quality services: <br />Air quality studies in support of CEQA and NEPA documents: <br />- Legally defensible air quality sections for Environmental Impact Reports, Environmental Impact <br />Statements, Negative Declarations, Mitigated Negative Declarations, and Environmental Assessments <br />- Emission quantification using URBEMIS and other models for mobile, areas, and construction <br />emissions <br />- Dispersion modeling for carbon monoxide hotspots and toxic health risk assessments <br />- Air quality mitigation measure/cost benefit analysis <br />- Expert testimony, peer review, and consensus building <br />- General conformity analysis for Federally -funded projects <br />Regulatory compliance assistance: <br />- Indirect source review applications <br />- Offsite mitigation requirements <br />- Stationary source compliance audits <br />- Review and analysis of new rules and regulations <br />- Emission inventory development <br />- Fugitive Dust Control and Construction Mitigation Plans <br />- Air quality mitigation monitoring <br />Education and Training in air quality modeling techniques, indirect source review compliance, and in <br />addressing air quality in CEQA/NEPA documents. <br />Local Public Agency Projects Include: <br />• Air Quality and Noise Sections of the Riverway Substation PEA for Southern California Edison <br />• Air Quality Screening -Level Analysis for the Orange Center, Equity Office Properties in Los Alamitos <br />NEWS <br />MEMO <br />6 <br />