Sara Mourino, Sustainability Director, SSA Marine; Steve Spittle; Name not provided; V.
Castillo; Coleen Clementson, Planning Director, San Diego Association of Governments;
Catalina Tita Puente; Chelsea Elizarde; Angelica Ramirez; Alicia Sanchez; Carmen
Garciola; Franciso Hernandez; Maritza Garcia; Margarita Moreno; and Ricardo
Vilamontes.
Chairman Zucchet, Commissioner Naranjo, Commissioner Malcolm, Commissioner
LeSar, Commissioner Castellanos, Commissioner Moore, provided comments and asked
clarifying questions. Phil Gibbons, Program Manager, Energy, Jason Giffen, Vice
President, Mr. Hofreiter, Mike LaFleur, Vice President, Maritime, Stephen Shafer,
Principal, Economics and Policy, Joe Stuyvesant, President/CEO, and Josefina Khalidy,
Principal, Maritime Business Retention, responded.
Commissioner Naranjo made a motion, seconded by Chairman Zucchet,
subsequently amended with the consent of the maker and the second, to adopt
the Maritime Clean Air Strategy as recommended by Staff with the following
changes:
1.Prepare a heavy duty truck transition plan by January 2022 with ZE heavy-duty
transition benchmarks of 40% by June 30, 2026 and 100% by December 31, 2030
that includes the following:
• A compilation of all foreseeable tasks and their timelines including: charging
infrastructure development; planning and implementation of a short-haul truck
program, and creation of a truck registry.
• Development of key policy concepts such as additional revenue source
mechanisms and guidelines to utilize them; and, new lease provisions for ZE
truck requirements. This section should include the process required for
consideration and adoption by the Board as well as their projected hearing
dates.
• Compilation and analysis of truck data (e.g., truck ownership, delivery distances
within the San Diego region and beyond) needed to prepare the transition plan.
2. Prepare a baseline of 100,000 truck trips consisting of heavy duty diesel and
natural gas truck trips. Utilize the baseline for projecting truck transition from
diesel and natural gas to zero emission per the transition benchmarks above.
3. Edit the MCAS Definitions to add trucking-related definitions as follows:
a. Trucking Company - Licensed motor carrier registered with the Secretary of
State, registered with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
b. Independent Trucker - A person that has their own operating authority, like
the licensed motor carrier and operates one truck all on their own.
c. Owner Operator - A person that owns a truck but does not hold any
operating authority. To be clear, Owner Operator is not a legal definition with
regards to employment status, only the relationship between the owner and their
equipment.
d. Truck Driver - A person that holds the proper license to drive the
equipment.
4. Edit the MCAS language in Section s3.1 Assumptions and Advancements to
read as follows:
a. "Maritime tenants and businesses create important maritime workforce jobs
for the region. The maritime terminal workforce includes longshore workers,
terminal operators, and administrative employees, trucking companies and
independent truckers, rail employees, transportation service providers, and