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<br />110. Diesel-powered cranes and container movers will be used throughout the <br />proposed Bayport facility. <br />111. The Bayport DEIS failed to address the health effects of diesel emissions <br />associated with the proposed Bayport Project operations. <br />112. In May, 2002, prior to the issuance of the FEIS, the USEPA issued its Health <br />Assessment Document of Diesel Exhaust. <br />113. In this study, USEPA determined that long-term exposure to diesel exhaust is <br />likely to pose a lung cancer hazard, as well as other types of lung damage, to humans. <br />114. Over 5,000 people live within one mile of the proposed Bayport facility. <br />115. Although this USEPA Health Assessment document was delivered to the Corps of <br />Engineers in 2002 by GBCPA, the Galveston District failed to consider this document or include <br />an analysis of the increase in cancer cases that would be caused in the adjacent population by the <br />operation of diesel sources at the proposed Bayport facility in a Supplemental DEIS. <br />(6). NEW AIR QUALITY IMPACTS FROM FINE PARTICULATE MATTER <br />116. PM2.5 is particulate matter air pollution 2.5 microns and smaller in size. <br />117. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has adopted a National Ambient Air <br />Quality Standard (NAAQS) for PMT, including both a 24-hour standard (65 micrograms per <br />cubic meter) and an annual standard (15 micrograms per cubic meter). <br />118. PM2.s will be emitted from construction activities at the proposed Bayport site and <br />from the operation of diesel equipment at the proposed Bayport site. <br />119. Although comments regarding PMZ.S had been submitted at the scoping meeting <br />by some of the plaintiff organizations, the Bayport DEIS did not analyze the emission of PMzs <br />16. <br />