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PUD-134 Hopyard Road Shell/7-Eleven Redevelopment Initial Study and Negative Declaration DISCUSSION a. An air quality plan is intended to bring a region's air quality into compliance with State and Federal requirements. The BAAQMD developed the Final 2017 Clean Air Plan (adopted in September of 2017) and the 2005 Ozone Strategy (adopted in January of 2006). The assumptions and growth projections used in these documents rely on the General Plan documents of communities. Therefore, projects that are found to be consistent with the General Plan (as is the subject project) are consistent with applicable air quality plans. Therefore, this would be no-impact. b.-c. In May 2017, the BAAQMD adopted its 2017 Clean Air Plan (CAP) and published an update to its CEQA Air Quality Guidelines3. These guidelines establish screening criteria with which to provide a conservative indication of whether the proposed project could result in potentially significant air quality impacts. If the screening criteria are met by the proposed project, then no additional air quality analysis is necessary. The screening criteria are organized into operational- related impacts (criteria air pollutants and precursors and greenhouse gases), community risk and hazard impacts, carbon monoxide impacts, odor impacts, and construction-related impacts. If the screening criteria are not met, then an air quality analysis is required to determine if the project's air quality impacts are below BAAQMD's significance thresholds (roughly equivalent to the CEQA thresholds of significance used to ascertain whether an impact would be significant). Stationary sources of pollution which would trigger review by BAAQMD are not proposed on site. Of the land uses listed in the screening section of the CEQA Air Quality Guidelines, the proposed project most closely resembles a convenience market with gas pumps. The operational criteria pollutant screening thresholds for a convenience market with gas pumps is 4,000 square feet. The approximately 3,034-square-foot convenience does not exceed this threshold and would thus not to be expected to generate a considerable net operational increase in related criteria pollutant emissions. The majority of carwash users are expected to also be gas station or convenience store customers, thus this component of the project is not expected to increase the incremental operational emissions of the facility to the extent that the screening threshold would be exceeded. With respect to construction-related emissions, the project would involve demolition of existing buildings and construction of new buildings and site improvements, which would be expected to generate short-term emissions of dust and construction vehicle emissions during the construction phase. As documented in the 3760 and 3790 Hopyard Road Health Risk Assessment 18