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• <br />• <br />from the proposed Bayport facility construction or operation and did not determine whether or <br />not the PM2.5 standard would be violated. <br />120. As a result of the comments to the Bayport DEIS, the Galveston District included <br />an analysis of PM2.5 (fine particle) air pollution impacts that was released to the public for the <br />first time when the Bayport FEIS was released on May 16, 2003. <br />121. In the Executive Summary of the Bayport FEIS, the Galveston District for the <br />first time states that, in the year 2010, the 24-hour national ambient air quality standard <br />("NAAQS") for PM2.s will be violated. <br />122. PM2.5 is composed of very small particles that are inhaled deep into human lungs. <br />123. The scientific literature contains recent articles linking PM2.5 to mortality as well <br />as to sickness and hospital admissions. <br />124. PMZ.s can kill you - it is a truly dangerous pollutant. <br />125. Over 5,000 people live within a mile of the proposed Bayport site. <br />126. Well over 50,000 people live within three miles of the Bayport site. <br />127. After five years of evaluating this proposed Bayport Project, people living near <br />this Bayport location have now been told, for the first time on May 16, 2003, by the Galveston <br />District, that Federal air quality standards for this dangerous pollutant will be violated by the <br />Bayport Project. <br />128. This is not how the NEPA process is supposed to work. <br />('~. NEW NOISE IMPACTS TO RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES <br />129. Comments concerning the inadequate analysis of significant noise impacts to <br />adjacent residential subdivisions were submitted following the Bayport DEIS release. <br />17. <br />