Mobile Source Control Strategies

H-GAC is currently working on the Control Strategies Short List.The initial work to prepare this list involved preparing and qualitatively evaluating a master list of control strategies. H-GAC and its stakeholders began with the initial master list from public comment and involvement culminating in 2006. This master list was winnowed to those deemed of most interest to H-GAC, its stakeholders, and additional measures were suggested. These remaining measures were analyzed quantitatively to create the Draft Control Strategies Short List.

After the public comment period ends, this list will be revised to take these views into account and a Final Control Strategies Short List will be submitted to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for approval.

More background about the SIP process can be found here.

• Draft Control Strategies Short Lists and Quantified Evaluations
  
• Draft Control Strategies Report (Updated 12/03/2008)

Short Control Strategies Lists: Schedule

• Stakeholder and public meetings hosted by H-GAC:
• October 1, 2008: Airports/Airlines 1 - 1:30pm
• Meeting Summary
• November 3, 2008: Public Meeting at H-GAC - 1:30pm, Room A
• Agenda | Opening Remarks (mp3) | SIP Development Update (mp3) | Initial 2018 HGB Modeling Results (mp3) | H-GAC Local Mobile Control Strategies Update (mp3) | Open Discussion and Closing Remarks (mp3) | HGB Ozone Reclassification Notice | List of Acronyms | Timeline | HGB Control Strategy Development Update
• December 1, 2008, 3:30pm: Railroads
• Agenda | Timeline | Summary
  
• December 3, 2008, 10:30am: Tug Boat Operators
  
• December 8, 2008, 6:00pm: Public Meeting at H-GAC - Room A
• Presentation | Transcript
  
• December 15, 2008, 10:30am: Construction Industry
• Summary
  
• December 15, 2008, 3:00pm: Ports/Marine Equipment
• Summary
  
• December 16, 2008, 3:00pm: Industrial Mobile Sources
• Summary
  
• January 6, 2009, 10:30am: Airports/Airlines 2
• Summary
  
• January 8, 2009, 6:00pm: Public Meeting at H-GAC - Room A
• Presentation | Timeline | Transcript | Summary
  
• January 27, 2009, 2:00pm: Local Government Stakeholders
  
• Summary
  
• December 8, 2008: Control Strategies Short List comment round begins
• The public comment period began on Monday, December 8, 2008 and ended on Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 5:00 p.m. Submit all written comments on listed measures or ideas for additional strategies to be added to the list to Transportation Department, Air Quality Section, Houston-Galveston Area Council, P.O. Box 22777, Houston, Texas 77227-2777, email to airquality@h-gac.com, or fax to (713) 993-4508.
• December 5, 2008: Draft Short Control Strategies Lists due
• Draft Control Strategies Short Lists and Quantified Evaluations
• Draft Control Strategies Report (Updated 12/03/2008)
• February 17, 2009: Present Final Short Control Strategies Lists to H-GAC Board of Directors for approval
• February 20, 2009: Final Short Control Strategies List due
• Draft Final Short List Report and Control Strategies

Short Control Strategies Lists: Comments

• Jim Blocher (response) (12/08/2008)
• Troy Miller (response) (12/08/2008)
• Leo Waltz (response) (12/11/2008)
• Peter Wang (response) (12/27/2008)
• Sierra Club (response) (01-08-2009)
• Charles Stillman (response) (01-08-2009)
• Carol Caul (response) (01-14-2009)
• Port of Houston Authority (response) (01-15-2009)
• Smith Electric Vehicles (response) (01-15-2009)
• Harris County, Texas (response) (01-20-2009)
  

SIP Approval Schedule

• February 2009 through August 2009: TCEQ identifies HGB control strategies
• April 2009 through February 2010: TCEQ develops SIP proposal
• April 2010: HGB SIP proposal submitted to EPA
• TBA: HGB SIP Adoption by EPA