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Findings of Environmental Monitoring Committee Over the past year, the 8 member Committee (1 resignation) reviewed monitoring programs that are being conducted within the City limits as a direct result of specific conditions of approval for the new business parks and monitoring programs that are being conducted as a part of the City's normal operating procedures. Specifically the Committee concentrated on the monitoring of air quality, noise, water quality, hazardous materials and traffic. The Committee evaluated each program for its effectiveness in measuring compliance with project imposed conditions of approval and determined if an organized quality assured monitoring program exists for each discipline. It was determined that all of the five disciplines analyzed have some type of monitoring programs in place. However, revisions and improvements need to be.made to each program in order to be able to measure compliance with specific project related conditions of approval and to insure that the City of Pleasanton has in place an effective monitoring program to track the environmental quality of the City in the years to come. Specifically, the Committee made the following-findings: A) Air Quality Monitoring: The existing developer's (Hacienda Phase I) program was thoroughly reviewed and determined to be producing a substantial amount of flawed data because of the failure to select and locate measurement systems according to accepted professional/EPA standards and the failure to establish an acceptable "quality assurance" program. The consequence is that the developer's program produces data that is inadequate for measurement of compliance with the project related conditions of approval. The program needs major revision and restructuring with greater emphasis on correct "siting" and establishment of good quality assurance procedures. B) Hazardous Materials Monitoring: The existing program, which is being administered by the Fire Marshal, is a good,program which will be further'expanded with the hiring of a Chemical Specialist later this month. The program will need to further emphasis on on-site monitoring where hazardous materials are stored and utilized. The City is most vulnerable to those hazardous materials being transported along the 1-580/I-680 'Acid' corridor. C) Water Quality Monitoring: The existing program was determined to be complete but fragmented. Water Quality Monitoring is being conducted at numerous locations throughout the City limits by Zone 7, Hacienda Business Park Owners' Association, City of Pleasanton Water Department, and DSRSD. All of these individual efforts would need to be coordinated in.order to provide the City with data that is in a usable form. - 2 -