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documentation to the effect of this on my children and my <br />family." <br />The air quality and noise technical studies are very detailed and lengthy <br />technical documents that have been summarized within the <br />Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). They have been submitted for <br />review by the technical staff of the City of Santa Ana, Caltrans, and the <br />Federal Highway Administration. They follow adopted procedures and <br />guidelines in an effort to serve as full disclosure documents which <br />objectively identify the potential short-term and long -term impacts on <br />noise and air quality associated with the Bristol Street Widening <br />Project. <br />2. The other thing is that it may help tend to prevent some of the <br />smog drifting over into all of our backyards, that sort of thing. <br />So I would like to see those issues addressed more." <br />Response <br />The project will decrease emissions of carbon monoxide (colorless <br />odorless toxic gas) and hydrocarbons (unburned fuel) without increasing <br />particulate and SOx emissions. The 5 pounds /day increase in NOx <br />emissions, when spread over the entire length of the widening area, will <br />be insignificant. With or without barriers along the roadway, the <br />project will significantly reduce emissions of CO and THC and thereby <br />improve air quality adjacent to the roadbed. <br />W . IM-11 � . <br />1. "If the street is widened on the west side of the street, our <br />property will back up directly to Bristol Street. There is a <br />proposed sound barrier wall, and it is only listed as a little over <br />6'. That is not high enough to protect from sound as it is now <br />with the houses that are in back of us if they are taken out." <br />RMonse <br />Generally, at second line receptors, noise levels will increase. The <br />removal of the &st line receptors will cause noise levels at the second <br />line receptors to increase. The proposed 6' noise barrier is designed to <br />reduce ambient noise levels after the removal of the first line receptors <br />to acceptable levels based upon federal and local criteria. <br />V -11 <br />75C -238 <br />