Torrance Daily Breeze, NOTICE OF COMPLETION OF A DRAFT EIR FOR THE TESORO REFINING & MARKETING COMPANY LLC LOS ANGELES REFINERY INTEGRATION AND COMPLIANCE PROJECT The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), is the Lead Agency and has prepared a Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the project identified above. The Tesoro Refining & Marketing Company LLC is proposing the Los Angeles Refinery Integration and Compliance Project. In June 2013, Tesoro purchased the adjacent BP West Coast Products LLC Carson Refinery which, as part of the proposed project, will be more fully integrated with the Tesoro Los Angeles Refinery Wilmington Operations to form the Tesoro Los Angeles Refinery (Refinery). The Refinery includes: (1) the Wilmington Operations located at 2101 East Pacific Coast Highway in the Wilmington District of the City of Los Angeles; and (2) the Carson Operations, which is the former BP Carson Refinery located at 2350 East 223rd Street in the City of Carson. In addition to further Refinery integration, the proposed project is designed to comply with the federally-mandated Tier 3 gasoline specifications and with State and local regulations mandating emission reductions. The Los Angeles Refinery Integration and Compliance Project is expected to substantially reduce greenhouse gas (GHG), sulfur oxides (SOx), nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO), and particulate matter (PM) emissions at the Refinery. This will be accomplished by reconfiguring the combined Refinery complex to enable shutting down the Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit (FCCU) at the Wilmington Operations, by installing interconnecting pipelines, and by reconfiguring the combined Refinery complex to improve the gasoline to distillate production ratio from the integrated Refinery in order to expeditiously respond and adjust to ongoing changes in market demand for various types of petroleum products. Additionally, heat recovery will be optimized by installing new heat exchangers and modifying specified units to further minimize criteria pollutant and GHG emissions. All new and modified stationary sources with emission increases will be required to comply with Best Available Control Technology (BACT) requirements in South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) Rule 1303. Air quality, noise, greenhouse gases, hazards and hazardous materials, hydrology/water quality, solid/hazardous waste, and transportation/traffic, are the environmental areas that were evaluated in the Draft EIR for the proposed project. The analysis of impacts for construction and operation indicated that construction emissions for VOC and NOx are expected to remain significant regionally following mitigation. Concentrations of NO2 from construction activities are expected to cause a significant impact to local air quality and while the mitigation measures would reduce those impacts, the localized air quality impacts would remain significant. Hazards and hazardous material impacts generated by the proposed project are expected to remain significant after mitigation. The Refinery is located on lists of California Department of Toxics Substances Control hazardous waste facilities per Government Code §65962.5. Traffic impacts during construction were found to be significant prior to mitigation and less than significant with the implementation of mitigation. The remainder of the impacts in the above listed areas (i.e., air quality during operation, GHGs, hydrology/water quality, noise, and solid/hazardous waste) were found to be less than significant. The NOP/IS concluded that the proposed project would not create significant adverse environmental impacts to the following areas: aesthetics, agricultural and forestry resources, biological resources, cultural resources, energy, geology and soils, land use and planning, mineral resources, population and housing, public services, and recreation. The Draft EIR is available at the SCAQMD's Public Information Center located at SCAQMD Headquarters: 21865 Copley Drive, Diamond Bar, CA 91765. Copies can also be obtained by calling (909) 396-2039, or accessing the SCAQMD's CEQA website at http://www.aqmd.gov/home/library/documents-support-material/lead-agency-permit-projects/ permit-project-documents---year-2016. Copies of the Draft EIR are also available at Carson Library, 151 E. Carson Street, Carson, CA 90745; Wilmington Branch Library, 1300 N. Avalon Blvd., Wilmington, CA 90744; and, Bret Harte Neighborhood Library, 1595 W. Willow Street, Long Beach, CA 90810. Comments focusing on your area of expertise, your agency's area of jurisdiction, or other environmental issues relative to the environmental document will be accepted during the 45-day public review period beginning Tuesday, March 8, 2016 and ending at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 22, 2016. Please send comments to Ms. Jillian Wong (c/o Office of Planning/CEQA at the above address). Comments may also be faxed (FAX: 909-396-3324) or e-mailed to jwong1@aqmd.gov. Please include the name and phone number of the contact person for your organization. 3/8/16 CNS-2854568# THE DAILY BREEZE
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