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percentages. However, Seaport Boulevard in the project area has heavy truck traffic, Woodside Road is a designated truck route, and US 101/Woodside Road is the closest freeway interchange to the Port of Redwood City. Therefore, for the purposes of this scope, it is assumed that the Task Force may determine that the project is a Project of Air Quality Concern (POAQC) as defined in 40 Code of Federal Regulations 93.123(b)(1). The MTC's PM2.5 Assessment Form will be completed as soon as traffic forecast data are available for the project opening year and horizon year for the No Build and two Build alternatives. CONSULTANT recommends providing the Assessment Form and the modeling protocol for a PM2.5 hot spot analysis at the same time, which reduces the number of consultation meetings that will be required. CONSULTANT will work with CITY staff to upload the form and methodology to the MTC's Fund Management System database, and will present the project and PM2.5 conformity information to the Task Force. CONSULTANT assumes two meetings with the Task Force in our scope of services (one to provide a project overview and discuss methodology, and one to discuss the hot spot analysis). As of December 2012, POAQC projects must undergo a quantitative PM2.5 hot spot analysis, which involves a nine-step process that includes dispersion modeling. CONSULTANT will prepare the PM2.5 hot spot analysis based on the methodology approved by the Task Force in accordance with 2010 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standards. After the Task Force issues formal concurrence that the hot spot analysis requirements have been met, the public must be given the opportunity to review and comment on the analysis report. The public notification for the Draft Environmental Document will include notification of the availability of the hot spot analysis for review. Any public comments received on the PM2.5 analysis, and responses to those comments, will be attached as a new appendix of the hot spot analysis report. After the public review period, Caltrans will submit the report to FHWA as part of the package of air quality deliverables needed to obtain a conformity determination. It is assumed that no new air yuality data or analysis will be reyuired to respond to public comments. Subtask 5.2.3—Mobile Source Air Toxics Report A separate Mobile Source Air Toxics (MSAT) report will be prepared to address diesel particulate matter (DPM) and other emissions for existing conditions and for the project opening year and horizon year for the No Build and two Build alternatives. The emission types addressed in the MSAT report are also identified as contaminants of concern in the Bay Area Air Quality Management District's Community Air Risk Evaluation (CARE) program, which identifies the Redwood City/East Palo Alto area as having disproportionately high exposure to DPM and other toxic air contaminants. This study will follow the current Caltrans template and, as US 101 in the project area already has annual average daily traffic of more than 200,000, include a quantitative analysis in accordance with 2012 FHWA guidance for projects that have a higher potential for MSAT effects. ATTY/AGR/2013.164/URS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGR REV:10-15-13 VR Page 38 of 78