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4_ ESA Team Qualifications
<br /> TABLE 4 -2: SUMMARY OF RELEVANT ESA TEAM EXPERIENCE
<br /> Relevant ".Highlights Project _ s.
<br /> ESA
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<br /> GHG Inventories The l arbonNeutral Company The Carbon Neutral Company Greenhouse Gas Inventories and
<br /> ✓ GHG Management Plans PPfalt4a diMe - • Climate Action Plans
<br /> ✓ Industrial, ESA is under contract with The Carbon Neutral Company (TCNC) to prepare GHG inventories and Climate
<br /> manufacturing, Action Plans for TCNC's clients. The plans are an essential first step for companies, institutions,
<br /> organizations, and municipalities who want to become "carbon neutral' through reducing and 9 g their carbon
<br /> municipal clients emissions, and Then off - setting those that they cannot reduce. To date, ESA has completed GHG
<br /> tnventories and assisted in the development of GHG management plans for organizations ranging from a
<br /> single office architectural firm to a multinational financial organization with six offices in five different
<br /> countries. GHG assessments currently in the planning stages with TCNC include a wide vadety of industrial,
<br /> manufacturing, financial, and commercial companies with operations across the globe.
<br /> • County -wide GHG County of Tulare Greenhouse Gas Inventory
<br /> Inventory for General ESA is leading the preparation of an updated Background Report and draft
<br /> Plan Update - EIR for the Tulare County General Plan Update. ESA is also working with
<br /> • Sustainability Element County staff to review the draft Goals and Policies Report, prepare a
<br /> Sustainability Element, and conduct a county-wide inventory of greenhouse
<br /> • GHG analysis as part of gas emissions for the County's General Plan Update Project. For the GHG
<br /> CEQA inventory, ESA compiled the data and calculated emissions for mobile
<br /> sources, electricity production, solid waste (landfill gas generation),
<br /> ✓ Provided ', dairy/feedlot emissions, and natural gas combustion, and presented emission estimated for current year
<br /> recommendations for (2007) and future growth (2030) scenarios. As part of the GHG inventory, ESA also provided
<br /> future inventory process recommendations for improving future inventory rigor through additional data collection methodologies.
<br /> • Quantification of — Redwood Landfill Expansion EIR
<br /> ifecycle landfill GHG _ ESA prepared an EIR fora proposed expansion of the Redwood Landfill,
<br /> emissions which receives most of the solid waste from Mann and Sonoma Counties
<br /> • GHG analysis as part of (the is rity A p of preparation of the Final EIR, ESA
<br /> CEQA conducted landfill a lifecycle in Mon analys ). of s GHG art emissions for the facility, from its
<br /> opening in 1958 through the year 2098. The analysis examined fugitive
<br /> ✓ Specified GHG emissions of methane, a GHG with a global warming potential 25 times that
<br /> mitigation measures of carbon dioxide; state, national, and global GHG inventories recognize
<br /> landfill gas as a significant contbutor to global warming. The EIR concluded that future emissions of
<br /> methane will exceed 1990 levels, the baseline year set by Marin County's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan,
<br /> constituting a significant impact. Mitigation measures specified in the EIR included maximizing capture of
<br /> landfill gas and its use for power production; increased recycling, as well as composting of organic wastes
<br /> (which contribute to landfill gas generation); extending the post-closure maintenance period as long as the
<br /> landfill continues to produce gas; and additional on -site and off-site off-sets. With mitigation, future
<br /> emissions can be reduced to below 1990 levels. "Major issues evaluated in the EIR included impacts to
<br /> • visual and biological resources, water quality, geology (including slope stability and the effectiveness of the
<br /> leachate collection and recovery system), and air quality (including odors, toxic air contaminants, and GHG
<br /> emissions).
<br /> ✓ Local experience ty.t zt ; Alameda County Waste Management Authority School
<br /> ✓ Schools Recycling and .• Infrastructure Program
<br /> Composting Programs " "p -I Since December 2002, ESA has conducted site assessments and
<br /> provided technical assistance to over 200 schools in fourteen school
<br /> ✓ Lifecycle analysis of districts throughout Alameda County, including Pleasanton Unified,
<br /> GHG emissions providing recycling training to over 300 custodial, administrative, and
<br /> teaching staff. Our assistance has resulted in average garbage service level reductions, with corresponding
<br /> increases in utilization of recycling services. An additional benefit is the significant reduction in contaminants
<br /> (non recyclable materials) in the recycling stream, yielding higher recovery rates by the hauler, and greater
<br /> marketability of the collected materials. A recent trend has been to add food scraps to existing recycling
<br /> • services. This has required kitchen set -up and training of kitchen staff, as well as arranging with local
<br /> haulers for service. For each district, ESA maintains a school by school database of services year by year.
<br /> For many distncts, this has involved obtaining service level data directly from the haulers or brokers.
<br /> • Transportation as key .? Brisbane Baylands Phase I Specific Plan EIR
<br /> GHG emissions issue
<br /> ESA is preparing an EIR fora specific plan to develop the Baylands
<br /> • Focus on sustainabllity, .� - _ Landfill site in Brisbane. Major issues include traffic and transportation, air
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<br /> energy use, and green - _Ry!.. quality, aesthetics, and sustainability, particularly with respect to energy
<br /> building technology use, green building technology, climate change, greenhouse gas
<br /> • emissions, and sea level rise. The Plan addresses the 446 -acre eastern
<br /> -- _ - portion of the 659 -acre Baylands area. The Phase I area consists of 328
<br /> - upland acres, located generally between the Bayshore Freeway (US 101)
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