File #: 2022-0037   
Type: Motion / Motion Response Status: Passed
File created: 1/20/2022 In control: Planning and Programming Committee
On agenda: 3/16/2022 Final action: 3/24/2022
Title: RECEIVE AND FILE report on 710 South Clean Truck Program in response to Board Motion 16.
Sponsors: Planning and Programming Committee
Indexes: Air quality, Ara Najarian, Board approved a Motion, Bottlenecks, Budgeting, California Transportation Commission, Cleaning, Council Of Governments, Fernando Dutra, Fuel cells, Fuels, Gateway Cities (Southeast LA County) Service Sector, Gateway Cities subregion, Government funding, Grant Aid, I-710, Janice Hahn, Logistics, Long Beach, Long Beach-East LA Corridor, Minorities, Mitigation, Motion / Motion Response, Partnerships, Plan, Program, Public health, Purchasing, Research, Senate Bill 671, South Coast Air Quality Management District, Strategic planning, Subsidies, Trucking, United States Department Of Transportation, Zero Emissions, Zero-Emission Truck Collaborative
Attachments: 1. Attachment A - Substitute Motion by Directors Hahn and Dutra, October 2021, 2. Attachment B - 710 Task Force Study Area, 3. Attachment C - 710 Task Force Roster, 4. Attachment D - 710 Task Force Joint Letter of Support for SB 671 prioritization, 5. Attachment E - AQMD Presentation 710 CTP WG January 2022, 6. Presentation
Related files: 2022-0336, 2022-0270
Meeting_Body
REVISED
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
MARCH 16, 2022

Subject
SUBJECT: RESPONSE TO MOTION 16: 710 SOUTH CLEAN TRUCK PROGRAM

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title
RECEIVE AND FILE report on 710 South Clean Truck Program in response to Board Motion 16.

Issue
ISSUE

At the October 28, 2021, Metro Board meeting, the Board approved a Substitute Motion by Directors Hahn and Dutra (Attachment A).

Additionally, during the discussion of this item (Motion 16), Metro Director Ara Najarian asked for a report back on the various Zero-Emission technologies being developed for heavy duty truck use, including hydrogen fuel cell.

The authors of the motion have allowed for the first report back to be deferred to the March 2022 Board cycle to permit the 710 Task Force to convene stakeholders through its Clean Truck Working Group that will develop the 710 South Clean Truck Program (710 CTP).

This report provides updates on the development of the 710 CTP, including the stakeholder engagement process and advocacy efforts (as of February 2022) in response to the Board motion. Additionally, this report provides an update on the request made by Director Najarian during the discussion of Motion 16.

Background
BACKGROUND

Metro and Caltrans District 7 established the 710 Task Force in September 2021 to re-engage stakeholders that depend upon, and are impacted by, the movement of people and goods within the Interstate 710 (I-710) South Corridor that includes the I-710 South Freeway facility between the Ports of LA and Long Beach and State Route 60 plus the local impacted communities adjacent to the freeway (Attachment B).

The commissioning of the 710 Task Force responds to the Board action taken in May 2021 that suspended all work related to the original I-710 South Corridor Project EIR/EIS, including the Locally Preferred Alternative (LPA) 5C that included a form of an I-710 South Cor...

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