programs environmentalheron's head. >> i am the environmental and regulatory affairs specialist. i am sorry. i am in the plants programming and development association. i am here to request your authorization to solicit grant proposals for environmental education programs at heron's head park, and extending into inda basiia basin open space. my power. is not necessary to explain my report, i just thought i would give you something to look at while i am talking. if we never find it, that is all right. i do not believe any of you were commissioners at the time, but you are probably aware that in 1998 the port undertook improvements and expansion of wetlands habitat at heron's head park, the former pier 98, and constructed public access improvement at pier 98 and we opened areas to the public as heron's head park. since then, the port commission has been committed to the value of supporting environmental education and public programs in the park. we have endeavored to provide those programs in a variety of ways. for a few years we ported that function to a work order to the city col

the decisiond in incorporating the environmental review. i think it is often looked at as a process where the boxes are checked rather than a tool for decisionmaking in and out come in ocs leasing. yet identified the stipulations required, but what is your opinion? >> a good example would be the review that mms conducted for the macondo well, where the documents indicated there were over 90% probability of a high consequence of them, but the assessment, the degree of oil that might be spelled in that i consequence is that was grossly mis-underestimated. so a portion of the document is grossly underestimating what the actual spillage would be and that has direct consequences for planning. for what he would be looking for out of the oil response plan and what you'd be looking for in the way of capabilities and technologies that would be applied in the exploration drilling process. >> it has been said and we will probably be gathering information to validate the statement -- the site of the macondo drill was one of the more difficult sites in

it is looking at a wide range of environmental this -- environmental exposures and the development ofarly childhood. the study is falling more than 1600 children in california from three groups, children with autism, children with other developmental disabilities, and normally developing children. so far, the most frightening findings relate to children with autism and point to a need for further study. it is important to note that this study found no difference in mercury levels between children with autism and normally developing children. i am happy to report that the american recovery and reinvestment act allowed us to increase our support for autism research. our funding is being used to study air pollution,pfc's, endicott and disrupting chemicals, smoking, alcohol use, and other potential risk factors for autism. this is an important part of our overall investment in children's neurological development, which totaled more than $29 million last year. development of the nervous system begins in the womb and extends throughout childhood. during periods of rapid development, the bra

, we address the environmental impact of the 2004 housing element followed by the environmental impacts of the 2009 housing element. staff is here to answer comments today. comments will be transcribed and responded to in writing and comments and responses documented. this document will respond to all verbal and written comments and make revisions to the draft e.i.r. as appropriate. this is also not a hearing to consider approval or disapproval of the project. that hearing will follow the certification of the final e.i.r. comments today should be directed to the accuracy and adequacy of the information contained in the draft e.i.r. commentors should speak slowly and clearly into the microphone because that's the court reporter can produce an accurate transcript. commentors should also state their name and their address so we can send them a comments and responses document when that is available. after hearing comments from the general public, we will also take any comments on the draft e.i.r. from the planning commission. the public comment period for this e.i.r. began on june 30, 2010

it had nothing to do with environmental safety issues. it had to do with the concept that the committee was roasting with about separating exploration from development. the concept was, how can the government offer leases for sale to oil companies if they really do not know how much resources may be out there? seismic testing was in its infancy and that point, and we do not really know until you put a drill in the ground how much oil was going to be there. therefore, the notion was have the government set up some kind of program in conjunction with industry or perhaps on its own. and congressman dupont made the case that you do not want government getting involved heavily in the question of exploration drilling on the ocs. yes, they should regulate, but no, this should not be overly involved. this certainly done on what the government to be hiring people or to engage in its own kind of drilling technology. now remember, toward the end of the debate, as it was quite lively, he turned toward the majority side of the house and said, my colle

and for the draft environmental impact report to ignore that reality, to pretend it doesn't exist, to look in this narrow way at only housing inputs and not the totally of housing jobs and transportation, then i think we keep chasing our tails and asking ourselves kind of silly questions, how is it we're not housing the middle class. we are housing the middle class, they just don't work here, they work somewhere else. and i mean, the question becomes and i want to invite each and every one of you to the university of san francisco on the 14th and 15th of august for a community congress that is among other things going to try to address how do we employ san franciscoians. in san francisco. since we -- i've been doing this, we've gone from 60% of the jobs in san franciscoians being nailed by san franciscoians to about 48%. it's very hard to believe that that doesn't have a dramatic impact on housing. and housing policy. and that's what i try to do in the paper and i think that's what has failed to be done in this environmental impact report is to fully understand and be informed of that

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and continue i think a history of trying to attend to environmental matters.ut one constant that's been missing from the city has been protection of wildlife and habitats. it's always a secondary or tertiary consideration in any of these. and the e.i.r. should address those. the e.i.r. is adequate in saying that the habitat, particularly here on the island, has been compromised. there are others out there. offshore eo grass. and each of those will suffer impacts because of the proposed project. the e.i.r. concedes these but says each is less than significant. we would ask that the e.i.r. look at the written comments we propose and also ask itself whether the mitigations proposed really reduce it to a less than significant impact. we understand if it were to find there were significant impact that had economic impacts for the project overall, again we are talking about the sufficiency of the e.i.r. and sufficiency of the review. we ask the planning department and the commission ultimately not be compromised by pushes to push the project through and result in in

also environmental qualities and inhabitants. finally, karen did a pretty good job of presenting this, but we are already faced with two different cost numbers you're a good it is best to do your utmost to see these things up. -- to speed these things up. we are paying with escalated incomes. it is how you present the numbers. it has a real possibility of coming out of context and scaring people syria otherwise, i think there -- scaring people. otherwise, i think there has been a lot of good here. >> next plays. >> -- next please. >> i am really courageous -- encouraged by everything i have seen. i am going to encourage you to adopt a resolution today. i think the amount of development and the quantitative nature of services is worth adopting today, understanding of lot of uncertainty you are concerned about is really going to be affected by the management. i think we will actually achieve it by implementing the watershed framework, and we've will be achieved by it the analysis. -- it will be achieved by analysis. all these thing

that is an excellent point and the current environmental process and we can provide more details, but looking at future growth areas, they look if there is an existing plan on file and they can go through those documents or ongoing processes so we are both on the same page and not contradicting each other. that's the environmental process is helping us flesh through so none of us are standing on our own island. chair maxwell: thank you. we will open it up to public comment if you are finished with presentations. why don't we open up to public comments and we might have more questions to you. public comments. i don't have any cards, but please line up. >> madam chair, miami brad paul and i want to congratulate the planning department. they have done real progress. i wanted to address a question, what is so unique about this institution? and i think there is a good answer and frightening answer. most institutions that we know, san francisco state, u.s.f. have an idea of maximum ceiling of people they will serve. it might be 5,000 students, 20,000 students. but the academy have a barrier

environmental document, these projections are for the planning process. it doesn't mean that the academy is going there, but the planning department has asked us to get a better gasp of where we're going and learn what the impacts are. even though you see those areas on the map, doesn't mean we are going there but it helps flesh out for ourselves and the planning department and the community that these are potential ideas and potential impacts and when we get the feedback from the environmental document, we'll see that maybe area one or two is not a good idea. they will accommodate our future growth, which may be 5% or 10% a year. supervisor mar: i was going to finish up that from the suggestions made in the last land use hearing from january, i think a lot of people were questioning the expansion plans and its impact on communities that supervisor maxwell was saying, but getting the numbers more specifically on transportation impacts and other impacts so we're looking closely at if you had 500 to 600 more students per year to san francisco neighborhoods

@ environmental security alternative is really not in this document. i'm surprised.project is very strong and i think it should have dared to indeed address the environment. throughout the years of creating this project there has been a strong emphasis on green, on the truly green neighborhood of san francisco. the record shows during the scoping process, the documents pointed out the superior alternative would be one that would plan for enough defensity to support a robust public transit system, basic serving retail would minimize cars. i can quote our former director of san francisco environment, bloom felled, very eloquently in this scope in comments indicates the e.i.r. to include a minimum impact alternative instead of less intensive development attorney. -- alternative. one of the challenges here is to balance high density with a decrease in cars. and not use parking as an argument for economic feasibility. i regret that and i strongly urge that the e.i.r. indeed look that with the challenge it pose. i think if we want to be truly a green neighborhood, we need

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let's hear how residents are responding to the environmental and health issues they are facing. >> it was hard to breathe last night. i woke up coughing, you know? those are the things that we go through because of the contamination out here. >> this community has a history of issues, environmental issues that have been let go, just run amok. sitting in a meeting once with the health department, we discovered haphazardly that they had known for years that in bayview hunters point, african- american women under the age of 50 had the highest rate of breast cancer in the entire state, but the health department has noted for years, and they failed to address it. they only started talking about it when we actually found out. >> we have babies that were born -- that were stillborn. we have babies that live for maybe an hour or 2 and died afterwards, and nobody could explain why. nobody could explain any of it to us, and it all has to do with where we live, what we are breathing, and what we are playing on. we are not put it all off on pg &e, because we know that there are many issues, but t

at this time the environmental review is proceeding. we had received all the necessary environmental information as well as the transportation information that's needed to proceed. what we have now are plans to proceed. the notice to preparation mr. be taking place later on in the fall. the project projection will be preing as well. -- will be proceeding as well. the i.m.p. has not been updated, however the information that's in the project description will be used for the updated institution after plan that will be coming out fourth. we have been assured that will form the basis of the updated institutional master plan. chair maxwell: with the use issue, is there han opportunity -- is there a place that they can, before they buy a building, can they come to you and ask if these uses are allowed in the area? >> of course they can, yes. we have our codes on line. and we have staff available to discuss what would be needed to essentially go through the process of legally establishing the use of building zoning in the district. chair maxwe

it is the environmental issues here with hazardous waste, i am not worried about. the underground tanks have been removed. we have the oversight of the water resources control board and state toxic along bcdc also controls the tide, the 100 feet where it comes in and out. i think the question for us to look at here, if you want to add another two weeks to cover public comment, what is dimp with this e.i.r. versus other e.i.r.'s we have done in the city? i didn't hear any public testimony that has led me to believe that we need to -- any additional information. whether board member ebber ling -- e -- elberling is right or not with the church, i don't remember any time that we have to address the-sably issues in any other e.i.r.'s. i don't disagree maybe we should look at faith-based facilities being there, but that's -- the treasure island plan itself, they can negotiate some sort of rental there, that's a separate document. regarding the e.i.r. with the transportation and the environment and some of the alternatives, again i'm going back to the role of the e.i.r.,

a f-- environmental a fax effects. we will continue responding to environmental concerns including beach clean up. epa is committed to protecting the communities. we will persist in asking the hard questions until we more fully understand the long-term affects of the bp oil spill and conduct investigations to enable the long-term recovery of the gulf. we are committed to working with people of the gulf coast, the scientific community toward the restoration of the precious ecosystem. i will welcome any questions you may have. thank you. >> thank you. we will hear now from mr. david webster hall websterwest -- david westerhall. came to this position after 27 year career -- westerholm. he came to this position after a 27 year career. >> thank you for the opportunity to testify on the role in the deepwater horizon bp oil spill response in the use of dispersants. i appreciate the opportunity to discuss the critical role in the importance of our contributions to protect natural resources, communities, and economies affected

they have people looking at environmental issues. in brazil and norway there has been a tremendous focus on creating local content and the industries. the severing of these functions makes a lot of sense. >> severing them within the department of interior? >> as long as they don't get lost in the bureaucracy, you could put them in a number of places. whether they stay in the department or not is critical. there ought to be a clinical delineation. the leasing and fiscal aspect is a different world. it should be recognized as such. >> we have heard repeatedly and there is a story about the use of the terms "my clients" been customary, which makes one wonder whether alamance would continue -- elements would continue. is that culture going to change? >> i think the whole point of the safety case is it shifts the burden and creates a challenge to the industry to demonstrate they have to think through the implications of all their actions and anticipate. the other thing they have to do is -- a vast network of companies that supports these

she lives and breathes environmental justice. she lives and breathes renewable energy, low-income affordability, creating solar and green advocates in communities where they have not been our traditional partners in the traditional environmental stewardship. she is incredible. i could go on about how in january, she won the jefferson award for doing work in the community. cbs did a profile on her, calling her solar girl of bayview-hunters point. do you remember that? i saw that. constantly, she joined us in the final stages of dealing with the peters, at some point last year. she will these halls trying to advocate for her community, once to learn about environmental injustice. as soon as she started -- i found this in the chair's office. eric smith put it up there a second ago, but -- like how the thing? that is not her. wait, where are you? it is in spanish. that is the only copy you had, but people know her. she came into their houses to advocate clean energy. i spent so much time with her. she said she wanted to know everythi

mountaintop removal mining has affected local communities and critics say become one of the worst environmental catastrophes in u.s. history stay with us on r.t. . on the day of this interview the small creek less than one mile from their home flows black and i it's not normal that's coming from an abandoned home on drugs come from sorry pot. and i don't know. what to expect. out caught. maybe a few more years. and my health this went down tremendously. and i don't ever look to be helpful as i don't have all of the time not bankers in vain if i can do it help me. that are only thing i want now i want a good moral i want them to quit the pump and are quitting jade and whatever they're doing i want them to quit that. and. it's all mob to me bad. for the last twenty years. and hard. you can't make it without good water. from. the. booze. currently there are over one hundred forty billion gallons of coal slurry contained in more than one hundred lb ments in west virginia alone the total quantity of coal slurry in the rest of southern appalachians. on december twenty second two thousand and eight ac