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<br /> <br />3/6 <br /> <br />Based on the BAAQMD’s Permitting Stationary Sources Risks and Hazards Screening Tool, three <br />existing stationary sources of TAC emissions were identified within 1,000 feet of the Project, shown in <br />Figure 1 and Table 1.2,3 Preliminary health risk screening values at the Project’s receptors from the <br />stationary sources were determined using the Stationary Source Data Request Form and confirmed by <br />the BAAQMD. The BAAQMD’s Diesel Internal Combustion Engine Distance Multiplier Tool were used to <br />refine the screening values to represent the attenuated health risks that can be expected with <br />increasing distance between the sensitive receptors and the diesel engines. 5 <br />Based on the City’s Planning website,6 there is one commercial development that may occur on the <br />adjacent parcel to the north of the Project. This is the 2019 Stoneridge Mall Commercial Expansion <br />Project that was proposed by the same applicant as the Project. The Design Review approval for that <br />2019 project expired earlier this year. However, because the project is still shown on the City’s <br />website and because potential redevelopment of the 2019 project site is still foreseeable, that project <br />was included in the analysis. The 2019 project proposed to demolish an existing department store <br />building and construct up to approximately 255,000-square-feet of new retail, cinema, specialty, and <br />health club facilities uses several in two-story buildings. This HRA conservatively assumes that the <br />2019 project would include a diesel emergency generator. The BAAQMD does not issue stationary <br />source permits for projects that result in an excess cancer risk greater than 10 in 1 million or a chronic <br />hazard index (HI) greater than 1.0. Conservatively assuming the generator would result in a <br />maximum excess cancer risk of 10 in 1 million, the BAAQMD’s Risk and Hazards Emissions Screening <br />Calculator (Beta Version)7 was used to estimate the equivalent screening-level health risks values for <br />chronic HI and annual average PM2.5 concentrations, presented in Table 1. No other new stationary <br />sources of TAC emissions were planned within 1,000 feet of the Project based on the review of the <br />City’s Planning website. <br />This HRA also includes health risk impacts from mobile sources. Because there is no railroad with fossil <br />fuel-burning locomotives within 1,000 feet of the Project, the HRA only includes highways and major <br />roadways with over 10,000 vehicles per day. The BAAQMD’s highway raster file includes impacts from <br />highways in the Bay Area while the major street raster file includes impacts from all roadways with <br />daily traffic above 30,000 vehicles per day. The BAAQMD raster files were used to estimate the health <br />impacts from all highways and major streets, shown in Table 1. <br />Based on the review of 2020 average annual daily traffic (AADT) volumes provided by Alameda <br />County Transportation Commission, there are two roadways with an AADT volume between 10,000 <br />AADT and 30,000 AADT within 1,000 feet of the Project site.8 The BAAQMD previously had a roadway <br />screening analysis calculator for calculating impacts of roadways between 10,000 ADDT and 30,000 <br />AADT, but BAAQMD has since removed this roadway screening analysis calculator from their website. <br />To be conservative, this analysis used the roadway screening analysis calculator to account for the <br />health risk impacts from the two roadway segments. However, it should be noted that the values <br /> <br />2 BAAQMD. 2022. BAAQMD CEQA Guidelines, Risk and Hazard Screening Analysis Process Flow Chart. Revised <br />August 29. <br />3 BAAQMD, 2022. Email communication titled “FW: Public Records Number 2022-09-0151: Stationary Source <br />Request” between Yu-Han (Amy) Chen at Ramboll and BAAQMD. October 25. <br />5 BAAQMD, 2022. Health Risk Calculator with Distance Multiplier. May. Available at: <br />https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/planning-and-research/ceqa/tools/public-baaqmd-health-risk-calculator- <br />beta-5-0-xlsx-xlsx.xlsx?la=en. <br />6 City of Pleasanton, 2022. Community Development Department Update. May 12, 2022, available at <br />http://www.cityofpleasantonca.gov/gov/depts/cd/default.asp. <br />7 Ibid. <br />8 Alameda County Transportation Commission, 2014. Countywide Travel Demand Model. Planning Area 4; 2020 <br />Daily Model Vehicle Volumes, July.