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Partners for Environmental Stewardship Sharing
the Waterways Ellen J. Johnck Executive
Director
WISTAMay 14, 2009
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• Founded in 1983, BPC is a non-profit,
  membership-based organization representing
• Maritime industry and related shoreline
  businesses
• Ports and local governments
• Landowners
• Recreational users
• Labor Unions
• Engineering, construction, law, planning, and
  environmental sciences professional services
• Environmental and business organizations

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BPC Mission

• Ensure that commerce, recreation and the natural
• environment thrive in the San Francisco Bay-Delta
  region.

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BPCs Envisioned Future

• Innovative waterfront planning that
• sustains a working waterfront for water-dependent
  industry and jobs
• supports a diversity of waterfront uses including
  water transit, marinas, wildlife habitat, and
  integrated with residential and commercial uses
  on contiguous land
• addresses climate change and potential sea level
  rise, and
• fosters environmental-responsibility and
  compatibility among industry, residents and
  tourists
• Expansion of world-class maritime goods
  movement, ferries, recreational marinas and
  water-dependent industries
• Creation of a model of economic progress and
  environmental stewardship through regional
  innovation and supportive local, state, and
  federal policies and programs.

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BPC Agency PartnersU.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, EPA, NOAA Fisheries, USFWS, S. F.
Regional Water Quality Control Board, Ca. Dept.
of Fish and Game, BCDC, State Lands Commission

• BPC leads initiatives focused on Collaborative
  planning
• Safe and reliable navigation and shipping
  channels
• Wildlife and fishery protection and restoration
• Water quality improvement
• Air Quality improvement
• Goods movement efficiency
• Climate change and sea level rise

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Dredging and Navigation

• 2/3 of the Bay is less than 18 deep
• Long Term Management Strategy (LTMS) for Dredging
  and Material Disposal
• Environmental windows
• Marine construction
• Treated wood
• Pile driving noise
• Federal energy and water appropriationsHarbor
  Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF)

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Long Term Management Strategy (LTMS) for Dredging

• 4-5 mcy of sediment must be relocated annually
• LTMS 40-40-20 upland, ocean, in-bay
  disposal plan
• Beneficial reuse of dredged materials
• All dredging must be completed within a 4-5 month
  environmental window

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Marine construction treated wood and pile
driving noise

• Goal Balanced and scientifically sound agency
  regulation
• BPC Seminars NOAA increases research
• Draft treated wood guidelines
• Pile Driving noise studies streamlined
  permitting
• Port of Oakland Berth 22 Caged Fish Study
• Federal Hydrocoustical Working GroupCaltrans,
  BPC, Port of Oakland, contractors
• Programmatic USACE SPD NLAA 2007
• 2009 Guidance Pending

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Water Quality
Wastewater
Urban Runoff
Erosion
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Air Quality

• California Air Resources Boards (CARB) Emissions
  Reduction Plan for Ports and Goods Movement 85
  reduction by 2020 for diesel particulates
• Green Ports Initiative and BPCs Bay Area
  Seaports Emissions Inventory
• Port of Oaklands MAQIP
• New challenge Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Wetlands and Wildlife

• Beneficial reuse of dredged material
• Recovery plans for
• endangered species
• S.F. Bay Trail

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Goods Movement

• Californias Goods Movement Action Plan
• Infrastructure Bond Goods Movement 20 B 2006
• Transportation Corridor Improvement Fund
• Federal stimulus program (ARRA)
• MARADs Marine Highway program
• Marine Intermodal System National Advisory
  Council

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Waterfront PlanningLeadership Initiative

• Diminishing supply of land for maritime uses
• Incentives for integration of water-dependent
  industry uses plus multiple uses, e.g. water
  transit (ferries), tourism, wildlife habitat,
  residential and commercial uses on contiguous
  land

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BPC Member Benefits

• Go-to organization
• Education and Advocacy
• Local and regional agencies
• Sacramento
• Washington D.C.
• Connection to other businesses supporting each
  other
• Annual Decisionmakers Conference

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BPCs continuing challenge for the future
Leading collaborative efforts to guide public
policy, identifying strategies for environmental
solutions that make business sense.
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Ellen Joslin Johnck, Executive Director ellen_at_bayp
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